Melbourne Anglican Foundation

The Migrants & Refugees Settlement Fund

Reminder
Donations over $2 are tax-deductible for this charity

About

The Migrants and Refugees Settlement Fund is established to provide funding,

 

  • to help and financial assistance in the settlement of migrants and refugees within and through parishes of the Anglican Dioceses of Melbourne, either individually or in association with other churches or community organisations
     
  • to enable such migrants and refugees to be integrated housed, maintained, transported, counselled and generally assisted in any way required by their situation and status
  • for the training and equipping of voluntary workers in pursuit of these objects together with the preparation and evaluation of a settlement program to provide activities designed to assist the integration of individual
     
  • to migrants and refugees, migrant and refugee families, and migrant and refugee groups, within the Australian community
  • to provide materials, speakers and programs to heighten community awareness of migrants and refugees, their situation and their culture
     
  • to solicit, collect, receive and take, by gifts, grants, devise or bequests, money, funds, and real or personal property and the income therefrom in and towards the settlement of migrants and refugees

“The Homework Club at Dixon House has been in partnership with the Melbourne Anglican Foundation for several years. This funding has enabled us to continue serving children from diverse backgrounds with additional learning needs through empathy, role modelling, academic assistance, and lots of fun! We are extremely grateful to the Melbourne Anglican Foundation for this privilege.”

 

 - Winston Chee, Co-ordinator, Dixon House

Current Programs running through The Migrants & Refugees Settlement Fund

St Philip’s Deep Creek Farsi-speaking Migrant & Refugee Ministry

St Peter’s Box Hill – Dream Stitches

St Peter’s Box Hill Sudanese Settlement

Geelong Refugees Assistance

 

Interested in starting a similar program and need the support and/or funding to do so?

The Migrants & Refugees Settlement Fund

Reminder
Donations over $2 are tax-deductible for this charity

About

The Migrants and Refugees Settlement Fund is established to provide funding,

 

  • to help and financial assistance in the settlement of migrants and refugees within and through parishes of the Anglican Dioceses of Melbourne, either individually or in association with other churches or community organisations
     
  • to enable such migrants and refugees to be integrated housed, maintained, transported, counselled and generally assisted in any way required by their situation and status

  • for the training and equipping of voluntary workers in pursuit of these objects together with the preparation and evaluation of a settlement program to provide activities designed to assist the integration of individual
     
  • to migrants and refugees, migrant and refugee families, and migrant and refugee groups, within the Australian community
  • to provide materials, speakers and programs to heighten community awareness of migrants and refugees, their situation and their culture
     
  • to solicit, collect, receive and take, by gifts, grants, devise or bequests, money, funds, and real or personal property and the income therefrom in and towards the settlement of migrants and refugees

“The Homework Club at Dixon House has been in partnership with the Melbourne Anglican Foundation for several years. This funding has enabled us to continue serving children from diverse backgrounds with additional learning needs through empathy, role modelling, academic assistance, and lots of fun! We are extremely grateful to the Melbourne Anglican Foundation for this privilege.”

 

 - Winston Chee, Co-ordinator, Dixon House

Current Programs running through The Migrants & Refugees Settlement Fund

St Philip’s Deep Creek Farsi-speaking Migrant & Refugee Ministry

St Peter’s Box Hill – Dream Stitches

St Peter’s Box Hill Sudanese Settlement

Geelong Refugees Assistance

 

Interested in starting a similar program and need the support and/or funding to do so?