Latest news: Communities at Work

With formal season on the horizon, the Lake Tuggeranong Lions Club is helping young people find their pride in style. Donations are now closed for the ‘Shopping Day’ to be held at the Lions Youth Haven on Kambah Pool Road, Saturday 14 October 10am-4pm and Sunday 15 October 10am-2pm. Canberra students in Year 6 to Year 12 are invited to “just rock up” and frock up – no tickets required.

An op shop about to celebrate its one-year anniversary at its Franklin Street location helps Canberrans become their best dressed selves.

Canberra special assistance school, Galilee School, has completed construction at their Holder campus as they expand into year 11 and 12.

Twenty years since it opened to a cohort of 20 students on the site of an old dairy farm, Communities@Work Galilee School is expanding to help vulnerable students attain a Year 12 certificate.

Santa made a surprise appearance at Gungahlin Village this morning, arriving by light rail rather than his signature sleigh, marking the start of Communities@Work’s annual Christmas Appeal.

Rapid relief from the ACT Government and the community sector may have spared Canberra residents from some food insecurities faced by Australians nationally during the pandemic.