On Wednesday mornings, you can find Robyn and a small team of volunteers bustling around a tiny cottage located behind St Philip’s Anglican Church in Bungendore. The team organise dry goods onto shelves, re-stock the refrigerator, arrange eggs and produce donated from backyard gardens and gently greet all that arrive with genuine kindness. “We…
Thank you to everyone who came along for our Community Easter Egg Hunt this past Saturday in Wagga Wagga! Hosted by our regional Out of Home Care team, the fun, free event was a chance for the families and children we support to connect with each other and the local community, and to celebrate…
Anglicare team members met with local families last week during the Healthy Schools Network ACT’s Cost of Living @Schools event at Wanniassa Junior School. The program is part of the Southside Initiative 2024 and is designed to help connect parents and carers to community service providers, like Anglicare, who can offer support with ongoing…
Through the collaborative efforts of Anglicare and the Lanyon Valley Anglican Church, the Gordon Community Centre in Canberra’s south has thrived in recent years—offering a variety of community programs and services including playgroups, coffee & chat sessions, gentle exercise classes, a table tennis club and essential emergency relief. For the past four years, Lyndal Rogers,…
Last month the Sapphire Surprises op shop in Eden relocated to a new, larger space, just a few hundred meters down the road. The shop, which is run in partnership by Anglicare and the Sapphire Coast Anglican Parish, has been blessed in recent years to receive a steady flow of donated materials from the church…
On Monday 15 January, volunteers from the Arawang Emergency Relief Hub welcomed a visit from Independent Senator, David Pocock. The hub, which is run in partnership by Anglicare and the Arawang Anglican Church, is completely volunteer-staffed and operates once a week on Monday mornings, providing free food and personal items to those in need. “The…
The Bega Valley Shire Council announced their Australia Day citizen awardees last week, including Anglicare volunteer, Flo Young who was awarded Senior Citizen of the Year! Flo Young has been active in the community of Eden for over 50 years. For nearly 30 of those, Flo voluntarily managed the charity op shop, Sapphire Surprises,…
It is with great disappointment and sadness that as acting Presiding Member of the Anglicare NSW South, NSW West & ACT Board of Directors, I announce the resignation of Anglicare’s CEO, Mr. Brandon Howard. The Board has been very conscious of the significant sacrifice he has made over the last year in being geographically…
An Anglicare Community Recovery Grant, designed to bring communities together following the devastating floods of 2022, has helped launch a local choir in Cootamundra, and it is off to a busy start! The newly formed choir, consisting of 20 members who attend weekly rehearsals with Choir Master, Mark Brooker, has performed at local events…
A group of Anglicare volunteers from the Queanbeyan retail shop have been at it for years—many years! Lorraine Donney and Chris Cartwright are part of this dedicated group and between the two of them have volunteered for more than 30 years already. Lorraine, who has been part of the team for more than 10 years,…
