This week is Foster and Kinship Care Week, celebrating the carers who provide safe and loving homes for some of the state’s 14,000 children currently in the out-of-home care (OOHC) system
Awareness Events
Posted inAwareness Events, Quirindi
Send him to the Shed for this Men’s Shed Week
Need someone to talk to? Something to do? Or maybe you just need to get out of the house?
Send him to the Shed.
Posted inArmidale, Awareness Events, Education, Fundraiser
TAS Sleepout shines a light into homelessness, domestic violence
TAS student sleep out as part of an ongoing campaign raising awareness and support for those in need in the local community.
Posted inArmidale, Awareness Events, Tamworth
Give A Sheet for the Planet and spring clean your linen cupboards
Take your spring cleaning to the linen cupboard and Give A Sheet for the Planet as part of recycling initiatives in Tamworth and Armidale.
Posted inArmidale, Awareness Events
Ezidi refugees mark decade of surviving ISIS massacres
Hundreds of Ezidi refugees have gathered to commemorate 10 years since surviving terrorist group ISIS killing men and enslaving women.
Posted inAwareness Events, Health, Moree
Healthy Harold’s Moree Festival of Health comes to Jellicoe Park
There’ll be lots of good family fun at Jellicoe Park in Moree next Thursday afternoon as a locals of all ages run through a very colourful course with a friendly giraffe.
Posted inAwareness Events, Health
Rural Australians more debilitated by chronic pain than city
The 2024 National Pain Survey has found that the experience of Australians living with chronic pain in rural and remote communities is significantly different from the city.
Posted inAgriculture, Awareness Events, General News
Farm kids get their hands dirty, but safety comes first
The balance of showing kids the beauty of farm life while keeping them safe is the focus of Farm Safety Week, as 12 per cent of injuries involve children.
Posted inArmidale, Awareness Events, Fundraiser
More participants wanted for Vinnies Community Sleepout
Locals will be braving the cold to address homelessness in regional Australia through the Armidale Vinnies Community Sleepout 2024 at the end of August.
Posted inAwareness Events, Fundraiser
Locals do 3,249 push-ups to raise money for headspace
New England locals completed the challenge and have so far raised $525 for headspace Armidale, and $2,398 for headspace Tamworth.