When we welcome you back, we’ll be proudly wearing a Covid-safe ‘badge’. This graphic badge is awarded by the NSW Government to organisations and businesses whose staff and volunteers have completed training, added precautions and modified practices to be as Covid-safe as possible. We’ve undertaken many changes so as to be ready to resume more [...]
Clients at Hunters Hill Community Hub chat with Member for Lane Cove, Anthony Roberts, in the Hub's courtyard when it reopened after refurbishment mid-2019. Now that a long list of Covid-safe precautions is in daily practice, Sydney Community Services’ group social supports for seniors and people with a disability are running again, [...]
The Botanic Gardens Community Greening team and Sydney Community Services (SCS) volunteer gardeners collaborate to develop community gardens for social housing residents in Hunters Hill. Two wonderfully industrious days in June saw the two teams replace decrepit garden beds that produced fruit and vegies, herbs and flowers for Meyers Ave residents for many years. Meyers [...]
You might have recently seen TV coverage of Christmas lunches laid on by Rev. Bill Crews and his Exodus Foundation team which just celebrated its 33rd Christmas with people who are homeless. Last Christmas Day, Exodus fed thousands who found a friendly welcome and great catering under the Foundation’s big marquee in Ashfield. Yet you [...]
Learning a new language in her mid-sixties and ongoing study in her seventies did not daunt Linda Chen, who spoke Mandarin and Shangainese when she migrated to Australia from Shanghai in 1995 with her husband, Yong li Su. Her grasp of English began when a visitor, arranged through SCS’ Community Visitors Scheme (CVS), began fortnightly visits (CVS [...]
Whether working as a volunteer or socialising as a guest, David Walker is often at SCS' Lane Cove Community Hub. After volunteering at SCS about four years ago, David has taken up so many SCS social activities that he might be more of a client of our services than a volunteer. Yet he's here [...]
If it’s about movies, our monthly movie presenter and volunteer, Alan Seale, invariably knows it. Alan’s been studying films for 20 years, no less, with a more famous film critic, David Stratton, who delivers an incredibly popular evening course on the history of world cinema (1894-1970) at Sydney Uni. Alan and other insatiable film buffs [...]
Proximity to SCS Lane Cove Community Hub was on the list of essentials when Judy Magson and husband Bill were looking for a new home – because they didn’t want to miss the social activities, people and community connections here! So they moved from St Leonards to a village in Hunters Hill, and [...]
Volunteering as a gardener with Sydney Community Services has been “a lifesaver”, says new gardening team member, Helen Kottler. “It’s good for me to focus on other people’s concerns. I call gardening ‘weed therapy’! To be digging in a garden, cutting things back, tidying up and doing just what’s in front of you … is very [...]
Mel Pike, Activities Co-ordinator, Seniors Hub, Hunters Hill Mel has come to various community roles through the visual arts, a discipline in which she has taught university students among others. She spent 15 years teaching in the country including with an aboriginal community, and has taught art to children and people with disabilities. Now she looks [...]
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