News

Children's Day

Spending time with your children without spending money

Posted: Tuesday February 21, 2017

$24,000 grant to help South Otago families

Anglican Family Care is delighted to have received a $24,000 grant from The Trust Community Foundation. 

Posted: Thursday February 16, 2017

Listen out for our radio campaign!

Posted: Thursday January 19, 2017

 Lovely lunchboxes

Back to school means back to preparing school lunches everyday. Try to get your kids involved in helping to make their lunch and talk about healthy options to include.

Posted: Thursday January 19, 2017

Back to school time

New teachers, making new friends and bullying. Going back to school isn’t always easy. We interviewed Claire, one of our Social Workers in Schools team, to get her advice on how to help your children prepare to go back to school, kindy or daycare.

Posted: Thursday January 19, 2017

The gift that keeps on giving 

Yesterday we received a donation of toys from Julie, a woman who had a great story we wanted to share.

Posted: Monday December 19, 2016

15 Ideas for enjoying time with your kids over the Christmas holidays

We asked our fantastic team of family/whānau workers for some tips on how to enjoy time with your kids over the festive season:

Posted: Tuesday December 13, 2016

North Otago welcomes much needed child services

 

Posted: Monday December 5, 2016

Ways you can help at Christmas

 We are now being asked – how can we support families over Christmas ?

Posted: Wednesday November 30, 2016

International Restorative Justice Week

November 20-27th marks Restorative Justice Week

Posted: Sunday November 20, 2016

Know that your child has the best start on their journey

We sat down with Anglican Family Care Team Leader, Nicky who gave her advice about how the Family Start Programme can help soon-to-be or new parents.

Posted: Tuesday November 1, 2016

Local Partnerships

In the last few months, Anglican Family Care has partnered with many groups and organisations in our local community and participated in a range of events.

Posted: Thursday October 20, 2016

THE OLD AND THE NEW

Let us not forget our past – it is timely to reflect on where we have come from. 

Posted: Thursday October 20, 2016

Val's Story of Being a Caregiver

As a respite carer, you can make a huge, positive difference to a child’s life. Caregiver Val shares her story and explains what makes caregiving so worthwhile.

Posted: Thursday October 20, 2016

ALISON'S STORY

Anglican Family Care supported Alison to have some time out.

Posted: Thursday October 20, 2016

Oamaru Welcomes Anglican Family Care Programme

Last week Anglican Family Care and Child, Youth and Family (CYFs) came together to welcome Family Start, a new social services programme in North Otago. 

Posted: Monday October 17, 2016

Press Release - Budgeting Services

Posted: Monday October 17, 2016

Helen brings pre–loved clothes back to life for Otago children

Last week Anglican Family Care received a range of children’s jumpers and booties knitted by Helen from Dunedin.

Posted: Wednesday October 12, 2016

Many hands make light work.

Child poverty affects one in five children, whose basic needs of warmth, food, adequate clothing, good health and opportunities for education are not being met.

Posted: Tuesday May 31, 2016