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We are raising up an army of volunteers to serve and love our city.

This takes many forms, including emergency assistance for families and individuals (the provision of food, accommodation, clothing, and financial relief), as well as financial counselling and support and a wide variety of practical expressions of love and service.

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Mainly Music

Mainly Music is a fun music group for parents or primary care givers to enjoy together with their young child. Throughout the morning, children develop gross and fine motor skills, language, imagination, mathematical and pre-reading skills as well as socialize with others. Each mainly music is associated with and is run by volunteers from a local church. Children are introduced to music, creativity and more.

Coffee Connect

Life wasn’t mean to be done alone. Volunteers provide a listening ear, encouragement, and support with the hope to see people flourish.

Availability

By appointment Monday - Friday
8.30am - 12pm

The Junction Cafe, 14 Junction Road, Burleigh Heads

Backyard Blitz

Teams of volunteers are sent on missions to mow lawns, whipper snip sidewalks, prune bushes, rake gardens, remove rubbish, and much more for people doing it tough.

Connected Threads

A group of like-minded volunteers create beautiful and useful gifts of love - quilts, beanies, scarfs, bed socks, bibs, and more. These are distributed through hospitals and hospices.

Give Blood, Give Life

Donors step up and become the miracle that so many need by giving life saving blood, plasma and platelets.

Managing Your Money

This money management course teaches people budgeting skills and a simple cash based system that really works.

This course will help anyone to get more in control of their finances, so they can save, give and prevent debt.

Availability

2 day course runs throughout the year.

Benevolence

This takes many forms, including emergency assistance for families and individuals (the provision of food, accommodation, clothing and financial relief) as well as financial counselling and support.

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Radical Christmas

We love Christmas and invite you to help make someone else's life a little brighter!

In 2012 we launched “Radical Christmas”,  and across the years have seen incredible generosity shown by our community, with over $187,000 being donated through gifts of hope, love and joy.  

Every year we partner with OurChurch and the community to join us in celebrating the birth of Jesus by giving hope and spreading the joy of Christmas, by purchasing gifts in love for someone they have never met, right here in our city. It’s an amazing way to make someones life a little brighter.

We have been thrilled by the generosity shown and as we radically embrace the true spirit of Christmas, bringing joy to many.

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• Christmas in July

• From November

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Gold Coast Christmas and New Years storms

Residents of Southeast Queensland experienced storms and rainfall resulting in flash flooding, major damage and long term power outages over Christmas and New Year 2023-24.

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QLD & NSW Flood Response

Love This City responded to widespread flooding across Northern NSW and South East QLD of Australia during historic rainfall that devastated the region in 2022. This included delivering supplies to affected communities, equipping volunteers to assist in the ‘mud-out’ process, and becoming a donation centre and hamper-packing location. As part of our response, we packed and delivered 694 food hampers, 683 hygiene hampers, 331 cleaning hampers and 140 baby hampers, as well as supplying 1751 slabs of water and other specific items in need.

Covid 19 Response

Meals supplied to families and individuals who have been financially impacted through loss of jobs, businesses and reduction in shifts, senior citizens who are self isolating, front line health workers and vulnerable children and women.

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