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…
On Sunday, 24 June 2018 at Holy Trinity Parish in Orange, staff from Anglicare Western and parishioners from Holy Trinity combined for some friendly competition. The cooking contest was based on using locally donated pumpkins. Hosted by the Rev’d Mal Dunnett and Luke Adamson, Anglicare’s Regional Manager, there were reports that there was “light…
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…
For the past four years, Bishop Rob has served the Diocese of the Riverina, which stretches from the western edge of Wagga to Victoria and South Australia in the South and East and up past Broken Hill in the North – about 37% of New South Wales. A former actor, Rob had a one…
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…
In April Embracing Ministries had their first Little Treasures Holiday Program. This provided 35 primary school children with the opportunity to learn the Easter story, make new friends, and have fun in a supportive and loving Christian environment. One family asked to share their experience of Little Treasures… “School holidays for families with children with…
30 May 2018. Written by Anglicare Chief Executive Officer, Jeremy Halcrow. We are currently celebrating Reconciliation Week and the nation-wide theme this year is “Don’t keep history a mystery”. One frightening statistic being promoted by Reconciliation Australia is that surveys have found that 1 in 3 Australians “don’t believe that Aboriginal people experiences mass…
