Canada Bay
Confront the Crisis – Housing for all
We recently attended the Confront the Crisis - Housing for All summit on ending homelessness and confronting the housing crisis in NSW. Confront the Crisis Confront the Crisis is a campaign by Community Housing Industry Association NSW which calls on...
Demand for our services continues to grow
The Burdekin Association exists to support young people towards a better-quality life. Many of us have found ourselves in this job because we love the idea of helping others and advocating for our most vulnerable people in society. We have...
Home Sweet 2023 update!
The countdown to Home Sweet 2023 has officially begun, on 17 March we will return to the waterfront of Freshwater where community will unite for a sleepover to raise funds for and awareness of homelessness. The event is also about...
Emerging Leaders Mentoring Program
Burdekin recently partnered with the City of Canada Bay Council and Ethnic Communities Council of NSW to deliver the Emerging Leaders Mentoring Program. The aim of the program was to help build participants' skills in leadership, advocacy and community engagement,...
Christmas fundraising update
A quick update on our Christmas Fundraising Campaign. As you probably know, we aimed to raise money for our Youth Development Fund as well as fulfill the gift wishes of our young people. As always, our community was incredibly generous...
Better Homes and Gardens backyard transformation
We are delighted to share with you, a recent project undertaken by Better Homes and Gardens on the behalf of our young people. The garden before Recently, the team undertook a garden transformation project at one of our properties in...
Christmas Spirit
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... We have been able to decorate our properties for our young people thanks to the donations from our amazing community! We really want to make this time of year as magical as...
Spring Garden Project
Introducing you to the Spring Garden Project – a wonderful project undertaken by The Burdekin Association and Oceanic Landscapes, and funded by The Northern Sydney Primary Health Network’s (PHN) Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Program. https://vimeo.com/764754274 Background Burdekin’s Youth Housing...
NSW makes it 21!
The NSW government has announced universal extended care to 21 years for young people in state care (from February 2023). We are thrilled to have played a small part in this. Campaigning across the country for the leaving care age...
View Our AGM 2022
We recently held our 2022 AGM and below you will find a record of the meeting. Once again our AGM was held as a virtual meeting allowing attendees to join us from anywhere. The MC for the meeting was Anna,...
