Today I am attending a fundraising lunch to support the work of The Big Issue in South Australia ,and organisation that in my opinion, helps homeless people become whole again. One of their mottos is “A hand up, not a hand out“, which I love, as so often the organisations who support the homeless simply give out…
Today I am writing a Saturday poem (hmmm, it’s about time!!)… although it is really a plug for people living in South Australia who are not living on the streets or in a car, to not only join us for lunch, but to support our local homeless community and the work of The Big Issue in South…
It is that time of year again, when a group of us are focused on the annual SA fundraising event The Big Lunch 2014. A discounted rate has now also been offered for late comers, so please, if you haven’t already booked your ticket for 1 or table of 10, consider doing do. What I…
Most of you know one of my favourite organisations is The Big Issue. People with dementia who are homeless are also a very marginalised group, as they don’t have the funding for health care, and the public sector is a much slower pathway to diagnosis for them than most others. This morning I watched a short…
A week or so ago, there was an article in the local newspaper about my local council rejecting an application by The Big Issue (TBI) to allow vendors to sell the magazine in our area, and in particular near the Burnside Shopping Centre. By the end of the day in which I had heard about it, I too…
The Big Issue is one of my favourite causes, and for the third year we are holding a lunch at the Adelaide Central Markets on Sunday 14 July, with three fabulous Adelaide chefs. It is an event that raises money to support the homeless vendors in South Australia, not as a hand out, but by providing…
The Big Issue (TBI) is one of Australia’s leading social enterprises providing creative solutions to the issue of homelessness. They achieve this by using different mechanisms to connect people with the community, such as The Big Issue Street Magazine Enterprise (a fortnightly independent current affairs magazine sold on the street by authorised vendors), the Community Street Soccer Program (a…
The Adelaide Fringe event I put on this year raised funds for dementia research and The Big Issue (SA) organisation, and I feel thrilled that I can now donate $3000 towards each. The other thing I wanted to do for this, was to set a small fire towards greater research into dementia and authentic brain…
A mother is only as happy as her unhappiest child. This saying, and a blog I read recently with a bucket list longer than I have ever seen has led me to think about happiness and bucket lists. I wondered if I’d have enough time to do all the things on this bloggers list, or…
I miss knowing the names of most of the bones, muscles, organs and systems in my body and the diseases that may afflict you or me (I was once a nurse so would have known them!!). I miss the names of composers and symphonies, the names of songs and singers. I miss knowing all the ways to cook potatoes and cakes, how…
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