Latest news: Hands Across Canberra

Community Bank Canberra and Regions has thrown open its own doors to provide a new home for Canberra’s independent community foundation Hands Across Canberra.

Last week, founding member and CEO since 2010 of community foundation Hands Across Canberra, Mr Peter Gordon handed the CEO baton to former founding Region Group Editor and former ABC presenter Genevieve Jacobs.

While Christmas is traditionally a season of giving in Australia, in the national capital it’s the Hands Up for Canberra Giving Day (or 48 hours, actually) in the lead up to Canberra Day that signals peak giving time.

A tidy one million dollars is the target set for this year’s Canberra Day Appeal, the Capital Region’s largest annual fundraising drive.

Hands Across Canberra is calling on ACT residents to give where they live and help locals in need to stay safe, fed, and warm

With every cent now counted, Hands Across Canberra has announced that its 2023 Canberra Day Appeal has raised more than $850,000, all of which goes to help local charities and organisations around the ACT region.

A marathon 90-minute auction event yesterday resulted in a sale price of almost $1.6 million for the Strathnairn Charity House.

Strathnairn Charity House was built by women using almost $1 million of donated materials, and proceeds from the sale will be given to Hands Across Canberra.

Hands Across Canberra end of year celebration and thank you, Senate Gardens. Photos: Kerrie Brewer

The Synergy Group gave refurbished laptops to Hands Across Canberra and community organisations in Alicia Payne’s electorate of Canberra:

Most Canberrans embrace cultural diversity, but Aboriginal people are still disadvantaged, according to the Vital Signs report.

Canberra has the highest life expectancy in Australia – but mental health has declined, according to the Vital Signs report.

The Vital Signs report, published this week by Hands Across Canberra and the Snow Foundation, provides a snapshot of Canberra focused on Health, Education and Employment, Housing, and Belonging.

Anti-Poverty Week organisers ask Canberrans to reflect on the disadvantage on their own doorstep, and to make a change.

A further 12 local community projects will share more than $80,000 in grant funding from the Chief Minister’s Charitable Fund, as the final part of an urgent Covid-19 lockdown relief round, Hands Across Canberra announced today. The first round granted more than $100,000 in funding, bringing the total to $183,000.

Fourteen local community projects will share in more than $100,000 of grant funding for relief activities as part of an ongoing relief grant round, Hands Across Canberra announced today.