The Residential Reports current ‘Without a Roof’ partner is sleepbus. – see below for details. Learn more about “Without a Roof”
Every year we step into hundreds of homes across the city, yet in Canberra there are still so many people living without acceptable, permanent or safe shelter. Whilst we commit our resources to a number of charities throughout the year, our in-house program ‘Without a Roof’ focuses on supporting members of our community who do not have a place to call home. From warm blankets, to food and shelter, or programs to help vulnerable people get back on their feet, a percentage from each inspection we conduct is contributed to ‘Without a Roof’ and periodically donated to make small changes to a big issue in our community.
Our Autumn/Winter 2021 partner sleepbus provides a safe place to sleep for people without a roof, each sleepbus has a designated parking spot, where it stays for the night from 8pm until 8am; 365 nights a year. Some guests will come directly from referrals of support agencies with any remaining sleep pods allocated on a first come, first serve basis – preferences given to the most vulnerable. The sleepbus team have a combination of paid and volunteer staff assisting with the service each night and we are really excited to have this wonderful organisation currently building a new sleepbus for our region!
Partnering with our Without a Roof program Spring/Summer 21. Toora Women Inc. is ACT’s largest specialist homelessness support service for women and children who are homeless or are at risk of homelessness for a variety of reasons. The Toora service runs various programs to offer crisis and transitional accommodation, individual case management and practical support for single women and women with accompanying children and other families in a safe environment.
Partnering with our Without a Roof program Autumn/Winter 2020. The Blue Door is a drop-in centre that provides support such as a free nutritious breakfast and lunch, haircuts, clothing and furniture vouchers as well as information, advice, advocacy and referrals. The Blue Door has over 2000 ‘drop ins’ each month. Blue Door has been an integral part of ‘Ainslie Village’ in Canberra since 1983 and is located in the Canberra suburb of Ainslie.
Our Spring and Summer 2019/20 partner… Orange Sky Australia! They have a simple formula; provide a platform for every day Australians to connect through a regular laundry and shower service. The focus is on creating a safe, positive and supportive environment for people who are too often ignored or who feel disconnected from the community. Volunteers are not social workers or experts on homelessness – they are empathetic listeners and great conversationalists.
Our Autumn/Winter Partner 2019. ACT Together is a consortium of 4 agencies that has been created to provide quality services for children and young people in out of home care in the Australian Capital Territory. The agencies that make up ACT Together are: Barnardos Australia, The Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF), Ozchild and Premier Youthworks. The group is committed to providing quality services and safe and stable homes to young people in out of home care.
Our Spring/Summer 2018/19 partner, Night Patrol provides mobile outreach offering refreshments and friendly faces to people on the streets every night of the year. Whilst the service is available to anyone, its primary clients are the homeless, people at risk, both young and old, and those in need, who might not otherwise seek help from the St Vincent de Paul Society or other community or charitable groups.
An overwhelming success, our 2018 RR Dry July Campaign saw Michael Hugg our Client Relationship Manager meet with over 200 local agents to raise funds for cancer support. For each agent that appeared in a photo with Michael Residential Reports kicked in $10, with many generous agents matching and raising the bar – we managed to support Michael as he raised over $3000!
OzHarvest – our Spring/Summer 2017/18 partner is the nation’s leading food rescue operation that has been feeding Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Melbourne and Perth’s hungry since 2004. OzHarvest has delivered over 60 million meals and has rescued over 20,000 tonnes of food from ending up as landfill and we are so proud to support their amazing contribution.
Our Winter 2017 ‘Without A Roof’ partner. We are so pleased to support this very special organisation – Karinya House is a community based group providing supported accommodation, transitional housing and outreach services to pregnant and parenting women and their families who are in crisis. It is the only residential and outreach service catering specifically for pregnant and parenting women in the region.
Our best to all involved in the 2017 golf day raising funds for this special organisation focusing on the prevention of violence against women. We are glad to play a small part.
A great initiative that compliments our commitment to those ‘Without A Roof’ in Canberra. Over the years we’ve been proud to support this event.
Now an institution in Canberra, the annual LUTON charity ball has touched the lives of many vulnerable people in our community in a huge way. It is an event that we are always incredibly enthusiastic to support each year.
From attending their annual ball to our staff cooking for the Ronald McDonald House guests, we have seen firsthand the extraordinary difference Michelle and her team at the house are making to families supporting sick Children at Canberra Hospital.
Each year we ask a staff member to pick a charity close to their heart for our annual Christmas contribution – in 2016 Pam selected Motor Neurone Disease Australia.
An important charity that puts a little sparkle back into the lives of seriously ill children – we are so pleased to contribute to Peter Blackshaw Gungahlin’s golf day in support of this worthy cause.
Canberra School Fetes
With lots of working Mums in our midst we appreciate the hard work that goes into school fundraising and we have been pleased to sponsor the St John Vianney’s, St Judes and Kaleen annual school fetes.
Share What You Can
A 2015 Christmas project that we were very proud to initiate, our team collected hundreds of non perishable items during our inspections to help St Johns care stock that pantries of Canberra families who were genuinely in need over the Christmas period.
