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Should you or your family need any assistance over the 2025 Christmas period, we have summarised a list of supports available in the ACT.
🎁Communities at Work Christmas Appeal – Food hampers, toys, and gift cards for families in need.
🎁Canberra Basket Brigade – Delivers baskets of food and gifts anonymously to families doing it tough. Email: canberrabasketbrigade@magicmoments.org.au
🎁HandUp Food – Canberra City Care (Charnwood) – Distributes Christmas hampers and offers low-cost groceries.
🎁The Salvation Army (Canberra City Corps) (Braddon) – Food hampers, toy vouchers, and Christmas meals.
🎁Vinnies Night Patrol Vans – Operating Christmas Day: food, clothing, and hygiene items at Dickson Library and Veterans’ Park.
🍴St John’s Care Community Lunch – Christmas Day, 12-1:30 pm, St John’s Anglican Church, 45 Constitution Avenue, Reid. Open to everyone; no bookings required. Guests can sit inside or outside under the trees.
🍴Canberra City Salvos Christmas Dinner – Christmas Day, 4:30 pm, 2 Fawkner Street, Braddon. For people in need or experiencing isolation.
🍴UnitingCare Kippax – Christmas Day, 12-1:30pm, Kippax Uniting Community Centre, cr. Luke St. & Harding Cres., Holt. Christmas Lunch for those in need
🍴Vinnies Night Patrol Vans – Christmas Day evening, Dickson Library (7 pm) & Veterans’ Park, City (8 pm). Distributes sandwiches, tea, coffee, clothing, blankets, and hygiene items.
🥫St John’s Care Emergency Relief Centre – 45 Constitution Ave, Reid ACT. Food, clothing, bedding, prescriptions, bus tickets, and Christmas hampers.
🥫Canberra Food Relief Network – multiple food pantries across ACT; info via VolunteeringACT.
🫶Medicare Mental Health Centres (City and Tuggeranong) – Free walk-in mental health support or call 1800 595 212.
🫶Lifeline Canberra – 24/7 crisis support, call 13 11 14.
🫶Domestic Violence Crisis Service ACT, 24/7 support for family violence: Call 6280 0900.
🫶Beyond Blue – On their forums, tips for coping with family stress and conflict during the festive season.
Community Housing provider CHC Australia, with support from the ACT Government, today launched an innovative new housing project aimed at providing single women on moderate incomes with a clear pathway to homeownership.
The CHC 2024–25 Impact Statement and Annual Report is now available — and it shows the scale of what a small, committed team can deliver.
Across a combined portfolio of around 800 homes, CHC and HomeGround supported 2,100 people across 857 tenancies last year.
We invested over $1.3 million into maintaining and improving more than 530 homes, and 99.7% of our properties now meet or exceed ACT energy efficiency standards, lowering costs for the households who rely on us.
But here’s what the report can’t show.
It can’t capture the late nights, the urgent call-outs, the difficult conversations, or the persistence it takes to keep people safely housed.
It can’t reflect the consideration, compassion and problem-solving that sit behind every tenancy, every repair, and every household we support.
The real impact sits in the work our incredible staff and contractors do quietly, relentlessly, and with enormous care. That’s the part that never makes it into charts or tables but it’s exactly why these numbers matter.
The full Annual Report is now available for partners, stakeholders and community members to read in full here: CHC 2024–25 Impact Statement and Annual Report