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International Women’s Day 2022

Together, we can #BreakTheBias

Happy International Women’s Day 2022!

Today we are celebrating women in all shapes and forms, young and old. Of course, every young person has the right to a life that offers opportunities to fulfil their potential, regardless of gender and background. However, we believe it is important to raise awareness of the need for gender equality. We need to stand together and stand up for a more equal world that benefits everyone in society.

This year, International Women’s Day is about ‘Breaking the Bias’, it is about imagining a gender equal world. “A world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that’s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women’s equality. Collectively we can #BreakTheBias.”

We love celebrating women’s achievements and increasing their visibility, while at the same time, calling out inequality. This is how we roll!

We are so lucky to have the most amazing women in our team who show up every day to support our young people so they can flourish in the face of adversity. We are also lucky to support and have supported many amazing girls and young women in our care, many of whom, despite multiple challenges in life, have gone on to do great things.

Let’s keep up the good work and #BreakTheBias.

Youth Development Fund – we’re almost there!

You helped us raise $60,000 for our Youth Development Fund

You helped us to make a huge difference with your support for our Youth Development Fund and we can’t thank you enough.

Back in November at our AGM, our Patron Prof. Brian Burdekin AO launched our Youth Development Fund with a request to help us raise $60,000 to enable us to fund a number of activities across our organisation.

We’re almost there!

With your help, at the time of writing this post, we received $52, 685 in donations. This means our young people will benefit in ways they may never have imagined. So a big fat thank you to each and every one of you who made this happen – together we can make a difference!

We will share updates of where your money is being used and as always we make your money work hard for us and our children and young people.

Special thanks goes out to Prof Burdekin AO, our Patron who matched your donation dollar for dollar up to $10,000 getting us off to a very good start!

There’s still time

If you wanted to donate but haven’t yet – there’s still time, we are just short of our target of $60,000 so with just a bit over $7,000 we are there! Would you like to help?

Please visit our Youth Development Fund page for more information and to donate.

Mardi Gras Fair

Meet our Burdekin Foster Carers

We will have a stall at the Mardi Gras Fair this year and we are looking forward to connecting with as many of you as possible! This is a wonderful opportunity to be part of a large community event. Our Carer team will be present to explain what it’s like to be a Burdekin Foster Carer.

Whether you are single, married, a home owner, renting, need us to provide a home, have a full time job, are part of the LGBTQ+ community, have a disability, are from an ethnic minority group – Carers come in all shapes and forms. We want to talk to you about what it means to be a Burdekin Foster Carer. Please take time to come by and say hi to us and learn more about our work.

The Mardi Gras Fair will be held at Victoria Park on Sunday 20th February in Broadway. There promises to be food, markets, comedy, dance and live music for all ages. We hope to see you there!

For more details about the Mardi Gras Fair please visit: ww.mardigras.org.au/events/fair-day

For details about our upcoming Burdekin Foster Carer information session please visit: Carer Information Session

And for more information about being a Carer with us or to speak to our team please contact:

Phone: 02 8976 1777
Email: carer@burdekin.org.au

Sarah Inner West | Michelle Northern Beaches

Local Matters Jar at Grill’d Balgowlah

Local Matters at Grill'd

For the month of February there will be our own local matters jar at Grill’d Balgowlah. If you happen to love a good burger head to Grill’d Balgowlah or order online and vote for Burdekin. If you love our work and want to help, this is an easy way for you to support us and it won’t cost you anything extra!

We have a chance to win the top donation prize of $300 or second or third place of $100 each. Grab some mates and head down for a burger and support your local charity! All you have to do is add a community token to our jar.

Local Matters Jar at Grill'd Balgowlah
Local Matters at Grill’d Balgowlah

Burdekin Christmas Party 2021

Burdekin Northern Beaches and Inner West

The work that our staff do can be pretty serious at times and this year our employees have really pushed themselves. Our staff Christmas party is an important opportunity to recognise the hard work that our team have put in and to thank them. It is also an important opportunity to have some well deserved fun and to get to know each other better away from the pressures of work.

Here are a few snippets from the event, you might recognise some smiley faces.

We acknowledge the Aboriginal people of the Cadigal and Gayamaygal Clans. We acknowledge the Country on which we live, work, and gather as being Aboriginal land.

We acknowledge the lands, waterways and skies that are connected to Aboriginal people. We honour them and pay our deepest respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

We respect their rightful place within our communities, and we value their ancient cultural knowledge and practices.

Aboriginal Flag
Torres Straight Island Flag

We deeply respect that this will always be Aboriginal land and we will honour and follow the first peoples’ values in caring for the Country and for preserving their culture.

We deeply value that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living culture in the world and we will continue to work with their peoples and communities to ensure their cultures endure and remain strong.