The Federal Government’s Safer Places Grant has enabled Anglicare to acquire six new houses in Goulburn for emergency and transitional housing. “The Anglicare team are incredibly grateful for this additional support. Having safe and secure places for families to rebuild their lives and recover from trauma is so important and organisations like Anglicare need…
“I was enduring domestic violence every day and I didn’t know how to go on. I’d had enough of my life.” This is how Beryl describes her life before she contacted Anglicare for help. Several Christmases were spent alone watching families in the nearby units receiving visitors and celebrating. But Beryl and her young…
Cassandra is a young mother from Orange who was able to find secure, affordable housing for herself and her daughter with help from Anglicare’s Survive and Thrive team. “I was really stressed and anxious. I ended up staying in a motel for four nights because we had to move out of our old rental…
In 2021, Anglicare opened an emergency relief hub in Bathurst in partnership with the local Anglican Church where the service is based – and already the hub is experiencing an influx of people needing assistance. Every week volunteers from the church and community are on board to assist, and include people from a wide range…
Anglicare’s bushfire recovery coordinator Jo Murrell recently hosted a morning tea and a plant giveaway to support community members who were affected by the Black Summer bushfires. The initiative was started by Wagga Wagga locals and avid gardeners, Keith and Eva Bergmeier who provided over 200 plants from their own extensive garden with specimens including…
For Crookwell local, Yvonne, the opening of Anglicare’s Disability Day Centre last year meant the end of regular trips to Goulburn to access disability support for her 40 year old son, Mark who has Down Syndrome. The new Centre was opened in partnership with Crookwell Anglican Church and is located in a building co-located…
Every child deserves a safe place to call home; especially during a national pandemic. But sadly, with COVID-19 lockdowns affecting people right across the community, it’s those who are most vulnerable who suffer the most. Some of the most vulnerable are children and young people who are in foster care separated from their biological…
The recent lockdowns in NSW and the ACT have caused a new wave of anxiety and uncertainty first experienced in the 2020 lockdowns. Families can’t leave their homes, people living alone are left further isolated, and those who are vulnerable are struggling the most. People have approached Anglicare emergency relief services for help wearing…
Anglicare NSW South, NSW West and ACT (Anglicare) is lending its support to a grassroots initiative in Dubbo aimed at protecting vulnerable communities in Western NSW. The project is the work of Dubbo local, Cyrena Harris, and provides at-risk Aboriginal communities with COVID Care Packs of sanitizer, hand wipes, face masks, colouring-in books and…
A new partnership between Anglicare NSW South, NSW West and ACT (Anglicare) and Resilience NSW will ensure that residents in Moruya and surrounding areas can access COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) with the provision of items such as face masks, antiseptic wipes and sanitiser. Anglicare accepted the first delivery of three pallets of PPE…
