Anglicare housing service prepares to help more local families as COVID-19 creates financial stress Anglicare’s Homelessness and Housing service in Goulburn is bracing for an influx of clients impacted by the COVID-19 measures that have seen some jobs on hold or disappear. Anglicare senior manager, Toni Reay, says that employment instability or job loss…
Anglicare services stretch to meet demand as more local families face financial stress Anglicare’s team at the Ashmont Community Resource Centre encourage people to seek help early if they are facing job loss and financial instability as a result of COVID-19 measures. Anglicare senior coordinator, Jasmine Woodland, says that while face to face services…
Anglicare advises that there has been a report of a person in an unmarked van illegally posing as an Anglicare volunteer in the Holbrook/Jingellic region during the recent bushfire evacuation in the area. This has been reported to police and Anglicare have followed up on this. Anglicare confirms that there were no people working as…
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…
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…
The newest stage of Anglicare’s Wollondilly Gardens Retirement Village in Goulburn will officially launch on Wednesday 3 April at 10am, and will be marked with a ‘turning of the sod’ attended by management, staff, residents and representatives from partner organisations. Stage 3 consists of six detached villas – five of which have already sold –…
Extending State care to 21 adds up morally and financially: Deloitte report The NSW Home Stretch Campaign is calling on the State Government to improve the lives of thousands of young people in Out-of-Home Care, and save millions of dollars. New research, launched today (Wednesday 24 October), confirms that extending the leaving age of…
