No one should go hungry at Christmas, or anytime but it is a stark reality for many people. The Eurobodalla Homelessness Support Service (EHSS) in Moruya is helping the community with food hampers to help reduce the pressure caused by rising food, rent and fuel prices. To date the EHSS has assisted families with nearly…
Children in the Albury and Wodonga region are missing out the stability of a permanent home with foster care provider, Anglicare, calling on more local people to consider becoming carers. “While we care for children of all ages from birth to 18 years, we find that it is usually school-age children that we struggle the…
The Canberra Gambling Reform Alliance (CGRA) has congratulated the ACT’s Gambling and Racing Commission (The Commission) for releasing the results of the latest ACT Gambling Survey but expressed strong concerns that the results expose that no headway has been made in reducing gambling harm to the Canberra community. These results provide yet more evidence that…
Nearly 300 students from 33 schools in the ACT and parts of NSW put pen to paper in support of Anti-Poverty Week as part of Anglicare’s ‘Pens Against Poverty’ schools writing competition, expressing their heart for issues ranging from family to refugees. The inspirational competition, which began in 2015, gives school students the opportunity during…
“[Respite care] is something we wanted to do for a while,” says Shelly. “We knew there were a lot of children who were in situations where they weren’t receiving the care and attention that they needed… We felt this was something we could do together with passion and commitment, and we felt like respite care was going to be our…
05 July 2019. Anglicare celebrates NAIDOC Week with Community Lunch at Ashmont Community Centre The Anglicare team are celebrating NAIDOC Week by inviting people to a community lunch to be held at Ashmont Community Resource Centre, 42 Tobruk Street at 10am on Wednesday 10 July. The lunch will include a free BBQ, the opportunity to…
Clients of Anglicare’s Housing and Homelessness Service in Goulburn have been receiving free cooking classes thanks to the Mulwaree branch of Country Women’s Association. Every Monday, Anglicare clients attend the classes hosted by the CWA which takes them through recipes step-by-step and also educates them on safe food handling, storage, healthy eating and tips…
In celebration of National Volunteers Week, St Johns Hall was transformed to host a special morning tea to honour and celebrate Anglicare’s volunteers. The event was attended by more than 100 volunteers from a range of Anglicare services in Canberra including St John’s Care, Anglicare Retail and Disaster Recovery. Guest speaker Virginia Haussegger, a…
On Wednesday 8 May the Canberra YMCA, in partnership with Anglicare, officially launched Youth Space. The initiative, based at Anglicare’s building at Scotts Crossing in Canberra, provides afternoon support for young people with activities like games, cooking and a safe place to meet with the YMCA team and receive additional support. The launch event was attended by young people,…
Written by Anglicare CEO, Jeremy Halcrow. “… some blandly undefined notion of corporate responsibility… [does] not constitute genuine accounts of sustainability but powerful fictions, fairy tales to help the children sleep at night.” Rob Gray, Emeritus Professor of Social and Environmental Accounting at St Andrews University in Scotland, is describing the fundamental tension within Corporate…
