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Youth Homelessness Matters Day 2024

Youth Homelessness Matters Day

April 3, 2024
Across Australia in 2022-23, almost 39,000 young people (15-24 years of age) presented alone to a specialist homelessness service. Of these young people, the majority were in need of short or long term accommodation. Half of the young people who...
Qualtrics volunteers assist to transform a property for a young person.

What a difference volunteers make!

March 14, 2024
A huge thank you to the amazing team of volunteers at Qualtrics for helping us transform a single storey, two-bedroom property for a 19-year-old single mother with two children under the age of two. Six employees from Qualtrics, which helps organisations...
Boy seeking help while learning on a computer. An Education Specialist with The Burdekin Association could help him.

The difference education makes…

February 15, 2024
"One in every five children in Australia are not completing their full 13 years of basic education," stated the ABC News on Tuesday February 6, reporting on the Productivity Commission's 2024 Report on Government Services. "The dropout rate of students...
Justene Gordon, Graham Bargwanna and Emelia Weaver of The Burdekin Association at the 2023 Annual Northern Beaches Breakfast Fundraiser

Community Matters

December 10, 2023
We are always saying how much our community matters to us, especially at Christmas - because we mean it. The Burdekin Association can honestly do so much, because of you. We'd like to shout out a big thank you to...
Stanmore House, a property to be renovated using the FutureSteps grant program.

We’ve been awarded a FutureSteps Grant!

October 11, 2023
The Burdekin Association is excited to reveal that we are the recipient of a FutureSteps Grant of $89,000 to be spent on renovating one of the houses we manage for young people transitioning from out of home care to semi-independent living...