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Welcome to our August newsletter where you can read about:
- The life-saving work we are doing to support women and children
- Upcoming events including the highly anticipated Mary’s House Walk on 27th October
- Recent Mary’s House Services news
- Our urgent goals for women’s and children’s safety
- Our gifts in wills program
- New role at Mary’s House Services
- Special thanks and acknowledgements
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Thank you to all who supported our end of financial year appeal and assisted in many ways at our recent events. At the same time, we are grateful to let you know that with community support, we recently passed a milestone of having provided over 14,000 nights’ safe accommodation to women and children impacted by domestic and family violence.
Our clients come to us from a range of socio-economic circumstances and diverse cultures; some from within our immediate community and others escaping to the northern suburbs for safety. Recently, we accommodated several women with young children needing sanctuary at Mary’s House refuge; providing crisis accommodation at such a vulnerable time is one of the ways our service helps to break cycles of domestic violence and abuse.
And our outreach service the Daisy Centre provides a safe and welcoming space for our work with women living in the community. For our newer subscribers: the Daisy Centre offers a range of therapeutic and wellbeing programs, and clinics including safety planning, legal and financial. Approximately 30% of Daisy Centre program enrolments are clients who are also being supported by our expert social workers, and 55% of our Daisy Centre program clients attend more than one program. |
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Upcoming events |
| We are grateful to community supporters who have organised events for Mary’s House Services – please join us at one of these fun occasions: |
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Sydney Male Choir concert
Saturday 17th August at 2pm
Town Hall, Sydney
Join us for this wonderful -
‘Let Us Entertain You’
afternoon. Guest artists the Senior Choir from Sydney Girls High School and the Sydney Lyric Orchestra.
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Norths Bears game at home
Sunday 18th August at 3pm
The Norths Bears will be playing Penrith in a home game, and we're excited to be included for the first time as part of the Bears family at this charity game.
TICKETS
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Find volunteers there selling raffle tickets to support Mary's House Services and mingle with others also taking a stand against domestic and family violence.
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And we would love to see every member of the Mary’s House supporter family, their friends, and colleagues at:
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Mary's House Walk - Sunday 27th October at 8.30am
Please spread the word - register today and consider forming a team to fundraise for the safety and lives of women and children.
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Recent news and thanks |
We are delighted to announce that Helen Conway has stepped into the role of Chair of Mary’s House Services Board, supported by David Scott as Deputy Chair. Our warmest thanks to Karen Bevan, who has been Chair since January 2023, and remains on the Board as a director.
At the end of June, we launched our new website – please look at our refreshed site at www.maryshouse.org.au
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Goals to support safety |
As always, our most critical goals are more options for safe accommodation for our clients and funds to employ more expert social workers. Might you or your network assist us with our wish list please?
- A new vehicle for use supporting clients
- New laptops to replace our aging equipment
- Sponsorship of our technology abuse safety programme
- Pro bono professional event management services
- Introductions to new corporate partners
- More community fundraising on our behalf
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Leave your legacy to the
safety of women and children |
| If you are estate planning and would like to know more about supporting us with a gift in your will, please contact us for a confidential discussion. |
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New role at Mary’s House Services |
Intake and Referral Caseworker:
this new role is only possible, thanks to the generosity of a philanthropic gift. It will help us assist more women, provide more expert referrals, and enable us to respond to referrals more quickly.
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Our gratitude to our many supporters |
We have been buoyed by the recent generosity of our community and new corporate partners as well as donors who have been standing with us since we first opened our doors. Your ongoing support and understanding of the significant need in the community helps us run a best practice service. Please continue to support us with your generous one-off gifts or consider committing to a regular donation to our work – it is only thanks to community generosity that we can help so many women and children.
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| We especially acknowledge the incredible effort of many of our corporate partners who stand behind our communications and fundraising efforts, providing skills and expertise on a pro bono basis: the Claxon Agency, Cupcake Design Studio, Kwik Kopy at North Ryde, and our great friends at Redfox Media, who in the last week of June enabled us to launch our new website. |
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| All who supported The Lakes Members' Charity Golf Day. Special thanks to The Lakes members for the opportunity. We’re now searching for another generous golf club to support our fundraising efforts for the new year. |
All who supported our movie night, with a preview screening of Fly Me to the Moon. Warm thanks to Sony Pictures. |
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| The generous community invited by the Distinguished Citizens Society International of Australia, attending a Taiwan music concert by the Chia Yin Chamber Orchestra. |
Northbridge Quilters for hosting a delicious morning tea and donating beautiful handiwork. |
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And acknowledgements and thanks to members of our supporter community who thoughtfully extend their network to us, with introductions to new supporters.
We look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events.
With thanks,
Yvette Vignando
CEO |
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ABOUT US
Mary’s House Services was established in 2016, when motivated members of the community on Sydney’s north shore agreed to take direct, affirmative action on the issue of domestic violence to save lives. Mary’s House Services provides accommodation and professional wrap around services for women and their children escaping domestic abuse that enables our clients to be safe, hopeful and empowered to take the first steps in rebuilding their lives.
Our domestic and family abuse service delivery is 100% community funded and relies on the support of our local community and corporate partners. |
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