
Small sacrifice, big impact
Year 6 students at St Thomas School, Goodwood, swapped their beds for cardboard boxes and slept in their classroom last month to raise more than $4000 for Vinnies.
Year 6 students at St Thomas School, Goodwood, swapped their beds for cardboard boxes and slept in their classroom last month to raise more than $4000 for Vinnies.
The tenth anniversary of the annual Catholic Charities Thanksgiving Mass on September 5 was an opportunity to celebrate the generosity of donors over many years.
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More than 70 students from St Aloysius College recently volunteered their time before school and during lunch hour to participate in two important National Homelessness Week events on Friday August 11.
Hutt St Centre will be cutting its carbon emissions and working towards net zero, with two generous donors stepping forward to fund a solar panel system at the well-loved charity.
The rental and housing crisis, cost of living pressures and post-COVID health issues are contributing to a sharp rise in the number of people seeking support from the Hutt St Centre.
People experiencing homelessness, the rental affordability crisis and increasing the JobSeeker payment are all topics gaining attention in the political arena at the moment, but as we know they are never going to be the platforms on which parties win or lose an election.
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