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| WEBSITE UPDATES , REDEVELOPMENT BLOG |
23 Jun 2008
Our website is up and running with plenty of interesting stuff on it like the L.I.P.S. eShop where you can purchase online from their range of unique and exclusive T-shirt designs plus visit our photo journal of the redevelopment or view back issues of
the newsletter. Please have a look around. The website will be updated progressively over the next couple of months. |
| NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK (12TH- 18TH MAY) |
12 May 2008
NVW is set aside to celebrate and thank the volunteers who selflessly offer their time and efforts to make valuable contributions to our communities.
Volunteers are an integral and extremely important part of St Mary's House of Welcome. Their involvement in our programs significantly enhances the quality of services provided to our visitors.
St Mary's House of Welcome would like to take the opportunity to sincerely thank all of its volunteers for the outstanding contibutions they make to our organisation.
Without them, we wouldnt be able to continue to operate.
Please take the time this week to thank one of our extremely wonderful volunteers! |
| FEDERAL MP LINDSAY TANNER TO VISIT ST MARY'S |
9 Dec 2007
MINISTER TO VISIT HOMELESS CENTRE
St Mary's House of Welcome is a multi-faceted agency offering day support and relief programs for the homeless in the City of Yarra and Northern Region. Opened by the Daughters of Charity in 1960, St Mary's has been working with the poor and homeless in Fitzroy for almost 50 years.
The agency feeds 150 people a day 6 days a week, and 300 people come through the doors each day for emergency relief assistance, housing referral services, food, amenities, counselling and social support.
The Rudd Government's Finance Minister, Mr Lindsay Tanner MP has announced that he will visit St Mary's House of Welcome, at 165-169 Brunswick St Fitzroy at 10 am on Friday the 14th December, 2007.
St Mary's CEO, Tony McCosker, said today Lindsay Tanner has had a very active and sympathetic dialogue with St Mary's over the years and has advocated strongly on behalf of the homeless sector whilst in opposition. We are extremely pleased that the Prime Minister has taken up the issues surrounding homelessness so early in the new Government's first term. We look forward to greeting Lindsay as Minister Tanner when he visits us again this week.
For media comment contact - Tony McCosker CEO on 03 9417 6497, 0417 514 003
Media Advisory:
Minister Tanner will visit St Mary's House of Welcome 165-169 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy and will be available for comment from 10.00 am to 10.30 on Friday 14th December 2007.
For further information contact Helen Schapper on 03 9347 5000 or HelenSchapper@aph.gov.au |
| GIVING THE HOMELESS THE RIGHT TO VOTE |
16 Oct 2007
St Mary’s House of Welcome is currently involving itself in actively promoting and encouraging all its clients, and those clients utilizing similar services within the local area, to let their voices be heard and place their vote in this coming federal election on November 24th.
As such, St Mary’s is organising a polling booth day, which will be occurring on Wednesday the 21st of November. We will be organising a number of buses to transport all those who are interested from St Mary’s House of Welcome at 10:30 am to our local polling booth venue- the Melbourne Town Hall.
The buses will stay stationed at the Town Hall, and once all voting has been completed, St Mary’s is welcoming all voters to an ‘election party’, complete with a sausage sizzle and blind cricket match, at Exhibition Gardens. Transport once again being provided.
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| BREAKING NEWS - FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS ST MARY'S REDEVELOPMENT |
11 Oct 2007
Prime Minister John Howard announced today that the Federal Government
will make a contribution of $2.5 million to support the redevelopment of St
Mary's House of Welcome in Fitzroy, Victoria.
St Mary's is a welfare agency established by the Daughters of Charity over 45
years ago to serve the needs of homelessness, marginalised and
disadvantaged people in the inner city of Melbourne. Several programs cater
for people with mental health issues.
Tony McCosker, CEO at St Mary's, said: This is great news for homeless and
disadvantaged people. The current building has passed its use-by date and is
inadequate for the services we want to provide in the future. This funding will
enable us to provide a Health clinic, a designated space for women, education
and training facilities, consulting rooms and a safe refuge for the homeless.
The Manager of the St Mary's Day Centre, Sister Roseanne Murphy DC said
that this grant comes as recognition for the tremendous work of the Daughters
of Charity over many years.Every dollar that has been received in the past
has been spent on client needs; we did not have the resources to redevelop
the building for what is required today.
The total cost of the redevelopment project will be $5 million. The Rebuilding
Lives, Restoring Hope campaign to raise these funds has been established
and St Mary's will be seeking the rest of the funding from State Government,
Trusts and Foundations and private donors.
Click here for the press release from the Prime Ministers office.
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- Abraham Lincoln
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