Mission Australia

1. Community Services in Victoria
(Community Services/Community Services by State)

... individuals. It is a commercially viable social enterprise providing landscape gardening, building and construction services at market competitive rates. Each year, the program offers 30 disadvantaged ...

2. Corporate Volunteering Opportunities
(Volunteer/Volunteer Opportunities)

... Gardening (& other various tasks) Activity: Gardening, weeding & lawn mowing Date: TBC Time: TBC Volunteers: 15-25 Financial cost estimate: $300-$400 Location: Robertson, NSW Client ...

3. Mission Australia to build $16M Aged Homeless Service as number of elderly homeless climbs
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the larger group and each pod of twelve rooms will have a dining area and lounge. There is also a roof-top garden and social spaces in the design. “We know from our existing services that most elderly ...

4. Bringing together the family services in Mt Druitt
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... families including: playgroups supported by a speech pathologist and early childhood teacher; parenting courses; living skills programs such as basic cooking; first aid; house and garden hints; budget ...

5. Mission Australia assists northern small business development
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... making to barefoot horse trimming and landscape gardening and maintenance. “Other business concepts included computer repairs, web page design, freight services and a travel consultancy. “In Northern ...

6. Community Engagement blooms in Garden Project
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Disengaged young people have learned more about teamwork and commitment – and how to tell the difference between weeds and “real” plants – during a Community Garden project run by Mission Australia at ...

7. Garden therapy for mentally ill
(News/Media Releases Archive)

Mission Australia is trialling the use of gardening as a way to combat the isolation, stigma and poor health experienced by people suffering from mental illness. For the past six months, clients of Mission ...

8. Deadly snake on a mission in Whyalla
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... reptile, listed amongst the world’s top ten deadliest snakes, slithered by and disappeared into the bushes of the garden. Staff luckily were able to give a good description of its unique patterns to ...

9. Job seekers give new life to school after arson attack
(News/Media Releases Archive)

... the front entrance, with landscape, revegetation, irrigation, paving and building a retaining garden wall. Funded by the Australian Government, the Work for the Dole project involves unemployed people ...

10. Creative Youth Initiatives - Festival of Potential
(Uncategorised Content)

... Express for the upcoming Melbourne festival on 19 and 20 March at O’Donnell Gardens, St Kilda, to raise money for Mission Australia’s Creative Youth Initiatives. This free outdoor event encourages Melburnians ...