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,…
By Susan Mickelburgh – Anglicare Senior Carer Practitioner (Moruya/Bega) Susan has been a social worker for over 40 years and has undertaken a variety of roles in the public and private sectors in several parts of Australian and in Indonesia. She has worked for Anglicare for 18 months and is passionate about seeing families, children…
By Debbi Fluke, Anglicare NSW South, NSW West and ACT Despite, or perhaps because of, society’s increasing focus on the online world, there is a strong drive for rebuilding community in local areas. Older generations are becoming increasingly isolated; refugees and migrants have limited English and opportunities to engage in community; younger people need safe,…
Brad Braithwaite has been appointed in a new role at Anglicare as Deputy CEO. Brad will have a particular focus on helping us develop the organisational capability required to meet emerging strategic challenges, especially our goals around improved program evaluation, business intelligence systems, philanthropy and workforce development. Brad was Deputy CEO of Argyle Community…
This week the team from Ashmont Community Centre in Wagga Wagga were announced the winners of the Anglicare Australia’s National Partnership Award. The award is one of four national awards given out annually across a network of over 30 community service organisations operating across Australia, and celebrates the partnership between the Anglicare Riverina Youth and…
By Angie Winter – Case Manager from Anglicare’s Housing and Homelessness services This article was inspired after seeing my coordinator assist one of our clients. The client was a single dad raising five children, who was moving into permanent housing after living in transitional housing. On this occasion, the father was taking three of his…
Anglicare and Lanyon Valley Anglican Church recently celebrated the first anniversary of their partnership to establish Gordon Community Centre. Debbi Fluke, the Coordinator reports: “Since the Centre opened in early 2017, we have seen significant growth both in our service delivery, and community awareness and engagement in the Centre. From a few visits to…
Without a safe home, it’s almost impossible to other areas of life to be healthy and functioning. For Wayne, a single father from Sydney, he knew this all too well. “I moved to Goulburn from Sydney after a relationship breakdown, and I still found rent costs here were too high for me. I didn’t want…
When a relationship breakdown left Maddison and her baby son with nowhere else to go, she turned to Anglicare for help. “Anglicare helped me and even paid for hotel accommodation for me until something more permanent could be found,” says 20 year old Maddison. “I couldn’t go home to live with my own mother and…
