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FareShare
Formation	2000
Headquarters	1–7 South Audley St, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, 3067. Tel. 61 3 9428 0044.
Location	Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia;
Chief Executive Officer	Marcus Godinho
Key people	David Harris (President), Sandy Dudakov (Vice-President), Marcus Godinho, Kellie Watson, Lucy Farmer, Fiona Maxwell, Brian Scammell, Crickette DerJeu, Patrick Lanyon, Rosemary Kelly, James Fien.
Staff	35
Website	www.fareshare.net.au

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FareShare is an Australian not-for-profit food rescue organisation that operates Australia's largest charity kitchens located in Melbourne and Brisbane. Its mission is to mobilise volunteers to cook delicious, free meals from rescued, donated and homegrown ingredients to improve the lives of Australians in hardship.

FareShare's healthy, balanced and ready-to-eat meals are provided free to frontline food relief charities to boost the health and wellbeing of people unable to access or afford meals or who may lack the facilities or capability to cook for themselves.

In Melbourne, with the help of hundreds of regular volunteers guided by experienced chefs, FareShare cooks thousands of meals every day for charities such as soup vans, homeless shelters, women’s refuges and community food banks. Thousands of corporate (team) volunteers and secondary school students contribute to this mission every year.

FareShare also grows its own vegetables at three kitchen gardens to boost the nutrition content and diversity of its meals. The largest of these is operated on a family farm where FareShare has approximately two acres of beds under cultivation.

FareShare’s production kitchen in Brisbane was established in 2018 harnessing food provided by Foodbank Queensland to cook meals for Queenslanders experiencing hardship and crisis.

FareShare is a charity and relies on the support of philanthropic foundations, businesses and individual donors to rescue food and cook meals.

History

How FareShare Started. In 2000, a pastry chef called Guido Pozzebon "'One Umbrella'started cooking 300 pies every Saturday morning for the Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul. Guido and a group of friends would meet at the RACV Club and use surplus food accumulated over the week to cook savoury pastries.

Steven Kolt, a Jewish Aid Australia member, knew of the work of City Harvest, an organisation that rescues food for the needy of New York City. As a result, Melbourne City Harvest began in 2001, rescuing food that would otherwise be wasted. Prepared meals were collected from function halls and catering venues.

In late 2001, Melbourne City Harvest and One Umbrella decided to merge.

One Umbrella then lobbied for the creation of Victoria's "Good Samaritan Act" which provides legal protection to those who act in good faith by donating food to charities.

In 2008, One Umbrella changed its name to FareShare and, for the first time, opened its own kitchen in Abbotsford, Victoria.

External links

FareShare

References

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+{{more footnotes needed|date=July 2016}}
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-|headquarters = 1-7 South Audley St, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, 3067.  Tel. 61 3 9428 0044.
+|headquarters = 1–7 South Audley St, Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia, 3067.  Tel. 61 3 9428 0044.
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 |leader_title = [[Chief Executive Officer]]
 |leader_name  = Marcus Godinho
-|key_people   = David Harris (President), Sandy Dudakov (Vice-President), Kellie Watson, Lucy Farmer, Crickette DerJeu, Patrick Lanyon, Rosemary Kelly, James Fien.
+|key_people   = David Harris (President), Sandy Dudakov (Vice-President), Marcus Godinho, Kellie Watson, Lucy Farmer, Fiona Maxwell, Brian Scammell, Crickette DerJeu, Patrick Lanyon, Rosemary Kelly, James Fien.
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-'''''[[FareShare]]''''' is an Australian not-for-profit food rescue organisation which operates Australia's largest charity kitchens.  It strives for a society where food is not wasted and no one goes hungry.
+'''FareShare''' is an Australian not-for-profit food rescue organisation that operates Australia's largest charity kitchens located in Melbourne and Brisbane.  Its mission is to mobilise volunteers to cook delicious, free meals from rescued, donated and homegrown ingredients to improve the lives of Australians in hardship.
+FareShare's healthy, balanced and ready-to-eat meals are provided free to frontline [[food relief]] charities to boost the health and wellbeing of people unable to access or afford meals or who may lack the facilities or capability to cook for themselves.
-FareShare rescues food that would otherwise go to waste and cooks it into free nutritious meals for people in need. Around five million Australians experience [[food security|food insecurity]] each year while [[food waste]] costs our economy an estimated $20 billion.
+In Melbourne, with the help of hundreds of regular volunteers guided by experienced chefs, FareShare cooks thousands of meals every day for charities such as soup vans, homeless shelters, women’s refuges and community food banks. Thousands of corporate (team) volunteers and secondary school students contribute to this mission every year.
-FareShare tackles the tragedy head on by rescuing surplus, quality food from supermarkets, wholesalers, farmers and other businesses and cooking it into nutritious meals.
+FareShare also grows its own vegetables at three kitchen gardens to boost the nutrition content and diversity of its meals. The largest of these is operated on a family farm where FareShare has approximately two acres of beds under cultivation.
-In Melbourne, with the help of 1000 regular volunteers, FareShare cooks more than 6,000 free meals a day for charities such as soup vans, homeless shelters, women’s refuges and community food banks.
+FareShare’s production kitchen in Brisbane was established in 2018 harnessing food provided by Foodbank Queensland to cook meals for Queenslanders experiencing hardship and crisis.
-FareShare’s new production kitchen, designed to cook  up to five million meals a year, opened in Brisbane in October 2018 as part of an exciting collaboration with Foodbank. The new operation effectively doubles FareShare's social impact, bringing the daily total of cooked meals to around 12,000.
 FareShare is a charity and relies on the support of philanthropic foundations, businesses and individual donors to rescue food and cook meals.
-In 2015, FareShare commenced a kitchen garden program to supplement rescued vegetables to cook with. To date it has established kitchen gardens in Abbotsford, Moorabbin Airport and on the Baguley family farm in Clayton South, Victoria.
-For every $15 donated to FareShare, it can cook 20 meals for the homeless, hungry and those who have fallen on hard times.
 ==History==
 How FareShare Started. In 2000, a pastry chef called Guido Pozzebon "'One Umbrella'started cooking 300 pies every Saturday morning for the Salvation Army and St Vincent de Paul. Guido and a group of friends would meet at the RACV Club and use surplus food accumulated over the week to cook savoury pastries.
-Steven Kolt, a Jewish Aid Australia member, knew of the work of City Harvest, an organisation that rescues food for the needy of New York City. As a result, 'Melbourne City Harvest' began in 2001, rescuing food that would otherwise be wasted. Prepared meals were collected from function halls and catering venues.
+Steven Kolt, a Jewish Aid Australia member, knew of the work of City Harvest, an organisation that rescues food for the needy of New York City. As a result, Melbourne City Harvest began in 2001, rescuing food that would otherwise be wasted. Prepared meals were collected from function halls and catering venues.
+In late 2001, Melbourne City Harvest and One Umbrella decided to merge.
+One Umbrella then lobbied for the creation of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]'s "Good Samaritan Act" which provides legal protection to those who act in good faith by donating food to charities.
-In late 2001, Melbourne City Harvest and One Umbrella decided to merge.
+In 2008, One Umbrella changed its name to FareShare and, for the first time, opened its own kitchen in [[Abbotsford, Victoria]].
-One Umbrella then lobbied for the creation of [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]]'s "Good Samaritan Act" which provides legal protection to those who act in good faith by donating food to charities.
+==See also==
-In 2008, One Umbrella changed its name to FareShare and for the first time, opened its own kitchen in [[Abbotsford, Victoria]].
+{{portal|Food}}
+* [[List of food banks]]
 ==External links==
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 ==References==
 * [http://www.fareshare.net.au FareShare]
-* [http://www.FeedMelbourne.Org.au Feed Melbourne findraising campaign]
+* [http://www.FeedMelbourne.Org.au Feed Melbourne fundraising campaign] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912060437/http://www.feedmelbourne.org.au/ |date=2009-09-12 }}
-* [http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/FareShare/59999486407 FareShare facebook site]
+* [http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/FareShare/59999486407 FareShare Facebook site]
 * [http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24977372-662,00.html Fresh Fruit Prices Bite]
 * [https://web.archive.org/web/20091002154649/http://www.fareshare.net.au/userfiles/file/The%20Age%20Top%20100.pdf Melbourne Top 100]
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 [[Category:Food banks in Australia]]
 [[Category:Hunger relief organizations]]
-[[Category:Non-profit organisations based in Victoria (Australia)]]
+[[Category:Non-profit organisations based in Victoria (state)]]