Will you be a stroller or a dasher … in the Lane Cove Fun Run on September 8? Get into the fun of the event: dress up, and dress up those strollers, your pets, kids - and yourself! Both fun runs, 5km starting 7:30am and 2km at 8:30am, start walking or running from Kingsford Smith [...]
Congratulations to Catherine Morton, a social work student who has been working with Sydney Community Services and who has been awarded the Dani Gilroy Memorial Prize for Social Work by the University of Western Sydney. We met Catherine during her placement from January to June 2018, which was part of her degree in social work, [...]
It’s confirmed! Good cardiovascular health at age 50 is strongly associated with a lower risk of dementia later: these are the results of a remarkably comprehensive study of almost 8,000 British adults over 25 years. Dementia starts to develop 15-20 years ahead of symptoms so warding off its onset is vital - and not impossible [...]
Reza Alizadeh volunteered at Sydney Community Services even before he retired. He was working as a handyman elsewhere and had a day off mid-week, so he put his hand up for similar work supporting SCS’s Home Modifications and Maintenance team. This team of qualified tradesmen does everything from small jobs through to retrofitting ramps and [...]
Denis Morris has been helping people out one way or another since the early 1980s. After the army he became a taxi driver and was still driving cabs when he became a director of Lane Cove Golf Club in the early 1980s and, with others, helped “turn the club around”. He kept working voluntarily for [...]
Canadian-born, New-York-bred visual artist and administrator Michelle le Dain shares the role of managing and scheduling our home maintenance and modifications, and gardening services. Michelle and Kathy Brodie work part-time to organise teams of qualified tradesmen, horticulturists and volunteer gardeners who make people’s homes and gardens safer, more accessible, and more enjoyable. "Job-sharing gives me [...]
Bridget Kennedy ( left) with Laurie Green If you love sustainably growing your own food, you’re invited to be part of the inaugural Sydney Edible Garden Trail on the third weekend in March 2020. The ticketed, non-profit event will send all proceeds back into community and school edible gardens to raise awareness about [...]
Robert Fitzgerald, newly appointed NSW Ageing and Disability Commissioner sees the role as an extension of a career which he has spent “helping protect vulnerable people”. Robert Fitzgerald, NSW's new Ageing and Disability Commissioner The Commissioner will be given 70 full-time staff and the power to initiate investigations or following a referral or [...]
“Many men have a rather solitary life outside their families and work,” says Adrian. “So retirement’s great – for about six months!" "One of the things I like about BOOMers is that we’re not sitting around, we’re actually doing things; we’re talking but we’re out and about.” This mechanical and industrial engineer, who has worked [...]
Community Hub client, Geraldine Scimione, cuts the birthday cake with Member for Lane Cove, Anthony Roberts It was like a makeover on reality TV, quipped Member for Lane Cove Anthony Roberts when he re-opened the SCS Community Hub at Hunters Hill, formerly known as SCS Seniors Hub. The renovated Hub now gives seniors [...]
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