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…
After an extensive recruitment process which drew a very high quality field, the Rev’d Karen Kime has been appointed General Manager for Cultural Safety. The recruitment panel, which included independent member Robyn Forrester (CEO of the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre) was unanimous in its decision. Karen is a Birripa woman and was previously Anglicare’s…
More than 40 staff and clients attended Anglicare’s Morning Tea for National Reconciliation Week at Holt on May 30. They heard a presentation from guest speaker Bob Slockee, Relationships Manager from Australians Together, which is a not for profit organisation working for Aboriginal people across Australia. Australians Together developed this professionally produced video https://vimeo.com/268698933…
28 May 2018. Wagga’s Ignite Mentoring program has been ‘reignited’ through its participation in the Wagga Wagga Takes 2 charity fundraising event. Wagga Wagga Takes 2 is annual event which pairs local “celebrities” with accomplished singers for duets to raise money for local charities around the Riverina. This year the event has raised over $431,000…
Twenty three of our Anglicare accredited disaster recovery volunteers assisted with the recovery response at Tathra, when fire devastated the small community before Easter. These trained volunteers included clergy, such as Archdeacon Carol Wagner, parishioners from across the region, and Anglicare staff. They helped at the Evacuation Centres in Bega and Bermagui, at the…
For Naomi Williamson, 43, a participant at Anglicare’s Disability Services, the opening of Anglicare’s new recycled clothing retail store at Jamison Centre in Macquarie on Tuesday 13 February at 5pm means more than a new shopping experience. Naomi is one of two disability services participants who have found employment with the opening of the new…
Anglicare services received special visits from NSW ministers following NSW Cabinet meetings held in Goulburn in late February. The Hon. Ray Williams MP, Minister for Multiculturalism, and Minister for Disability Services, visited Anglicare’s recently opened Disability Services Day Centre in Goulburn, where he met with staff and participants. Anglicare’s Early Childhood Centre at Goulburn TAFE…
