Women Supporting and Connecting Community

The Women's Community Centre of South Australia is a unique, robust and enduring Community Service. For the past 35 years it has been providing effective, dynamic services that enable women to follow a variety of pathways appropriate to their needs and increase their participation and empowerment in all sectors of society.

The Centre provides and maintains a range of integrated high quality services which are responsive to the needs of women who are socially isolated and cannot fully participate in the Community due to family and carer responsibilities, disability, language or cultural barriers, unemployment and financial disadvantage, personal trauma, illness and family breakdown. The Centre's commitment to Social Inclusion is demonstrated through encouraging these diverse groups of women to shape and run programs appropriate to their own needs. These early intervention and prevention startegies are highly beneficial and raise women's awareness of social justice and health issues, and creating pathways to employment and other positive outcomes.

Our current goal is to raise funds to further assist the Women of South Australia through the ongoing provision of programs and Services that are vital initiatives for the women of South Australia. Funds raised will provide worthwhile and tangible outcomes for many disadvantaged and marginalised women in the community whilst assisting the Women's Community Centre go from surving to striving into the future

How will the funds be used?

Key areas of expenditure for funds donated will be used to assist the Women's Community centre with:

• Further provision of educational, recreational and personal development programs for the Women of South Australia;
• Purchase of much needed equipment to assist our office/ reception, kitchen and childcare areas;
• Operational Costs: help our Service go from Survivng to Striving into the Future;
• Volunteer Program: Help us to provide more women in the Community with Volunteer roles. This requires funds to purchase equipment, training and staff assistance.

All donations will be used to further assist the women of South Australia through the provision of Personal Development and Lifestyle Programs; Recreational, Health and Fitness Activities; Education and Training Programs; Art and Craft; Information and Referral Services; Counselling Services, Childcare Services and Volunteer Program.

Here are some examples of what your donation could help us provide:

• $5 will enable us to assist one woman with participating in English Classes
• $10 would enable us to purchase equipment to assist our gold coin donation on site creche facility
• $20 would provide food for approximately 20 women attending our weekly community lunch
• $35 would provide an Instructor for a class for one session for volunteer training or for our participants.
• $50 would enable us to purchase much needed equipment for our kitchen area so that we can provide our Community Lunch Program and Cooking Classes for women
• $100 would enable much needed activities to be provided to the Community.
• $200 would help our Service increase our current operarting hours and Service Provision enabling us to further assist more women in the Community.
• $1000 would fund our Volunteer Program for an entire three months and enable us to increase our Volunteer Training Program which assists women transition into employment and further education.

All donations will be gratefully received and acknoweldged.