Deliver Joy to fellow Casey locals this Christmas!
Deliver joy to fellow Casey residents this Christmas and support locals in need who are doing it tough and need a little help over the festive period.
Here’s how you can help:
Donate non perishable items, toiletries and unwrapped toys to locals in need by dropping them off at your local library throughout November and December.
Do you have a lost or damaged library item?
Deliver Joy by making a donation to one of the nominated local charities (drop at the library and we will deliver it for you) and we will waive any charges on Connected Libraries items, borrowed at Connected Libraries throughout November and December.
Transit provides meals within a safe and encouraging environment for those who are finding life difficult.
These sessions provide an opportunity for lonely folk to connect with each other and to make use of the services we provide, including Centrelink staff, Housing and Mental Health agencies, Hairdressers, Shower trailer and Orange Sky Washing van.
Transit also provides food, clothing for families in emergency situations.
Transit has a large variety of backgrounds involved in volunteering. Guests are encouraged to develop social connections and to care for one another.
CISC provides a crisis intervention, information, and support service to people in the southern suburbs of the City of Casey.
Services include information, referrals, crisis intervention services (including the provision of emergency relief), counselling, financial counselling, Education Assistance Program, advocacy and negotiation services, no interest loans, Infolink Outreach Program and ADHD Support Group.
All our services are free and confidential, and aim to provide a non-threatening, effective, and welcoming one-stop-shop for clients.
The Cranbourne Food Truck provides hot meals, groceries, toiletries, support referral & friendship to those in need.
Our aim is to make our clients feel socially included in a community which is caring and supportive of their needs.
The Cranbourne Food Truck is owned and run by the Cranbourne Uniting Church, and we are supported by Uniting, the Cranbourne Rotary Club and other service clubs, churches, schools and businesses.
Manna4life is a charitable organisation registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profit Commission (ACNC), which has been in existence since 2013.
Manna4Life serves local communities by providing food and shelter, relief of poverty amongst underprivileged communities and the homeless, promoting the importance of education, both religious and social, by actively involving the broader community, providing support of youth and adolescence, providing access to financial support where possible, for low income families, and ensuring that basic health and hygiene standards are promoted within communities.
Established in 1994 and run entirely by volunteers from many professions, Andrews Centre provides:
Crisis assistance (food vouchers, financial assistance, emergency accommodation), support towards recovery and self-management (loans, budgeting help, free legal advice) and community development (garden outings, educational programs).
They also run an Opportunity Shop which provides cheap but good quality clothing and household goods and helps to fund the work of the Andrews Centre (the main centre of operations).
The Vinnies soup van services are located in metropolitan and regional Victoria and undertake street service of meals to our friends on the street and people experiencing food insecurity in boarding and rooming houses, crisis accommodations, social housing and other residential locations.
The Vinnies Soup Vans are run by dedicated volunteers, known as Vannies, who annually provide over 700,000 meals to people in need.