Congratulations to our volunteers!
A very proud moment for Community Friends this morning. Some of our volunteers have been awarded an Australia Day award for service to our community. We know this is a …
Community Friends helps people who are homeless and those in need. We help by giving people food, clothing, shoes, blankets and support. We never charge any of our clients. We give everything away for free. In 2011 we gave away over 5000 meals. In 2012, we increased that to 25,000 meals. In 2013 we gave away over 50,000 meals. That is a ten fold increase in 3 years. Today, we continue to give tens of thousands of meals away each year.
Contact Us DonateWe aim to improve homeless individual’s physical and mental well-being, whilst increasing their safety, security and general health via the provision of food, clothes, blankets, housing and other materials.
It is better to prevent someone from becoming homeless in the first place. We achieve this by providing with food, clothes, blankets and supportive services, including counselling and medical care
Prevention continues to those in the community that are disadvantaged. People often who are disadvantaged have a higher risk of becoming homeless.
Community Friends is a local South Brisbane registered charity organisation that provides various levels of support for disadvantaged individuals in West End and greater Brisbane.
Community Friends is an independent non-for-profit organisation that does not rely on continuous Government funding, nor is the organisation affiliated or allied with any other group or religious organisation.
The charity was founded in 2011, out of a need identified by Founder and Director Mark McDonnell for the provision of food and clothing for those less fortunate. In 2015, Community Friends provided over 60,000 meals to the members of our local community most in need.
Today the organisation provides thousands of meals each week for free to those living on the street and on the poverty line at serious risk of homelessness.
Additionally, the charity donates clothes, sheets, blankets, shoes, towels, cutlery, crockery and other essential items. Community Friends helps connect those most at need with other support services including counselling and health services.
At the heart of Community Friends is the fact all services and assistance is donated free of charge.
The majority of services and food distribution is facilitated at the West End Community Park (located at 155 Boundary Street, West End).
Additionally food is distributed directly to where homeless and people at risk live – e.g. parks, boarding houses etc. (It should be noted that while we currently have permission from the BCC to use the West End Community Park, they would STRONGLY prefer we not use it and find a separate property to distribute the food and other items from).
Community Friends key geographical areas are inner Brisbane CBD, West End, Highgate Hill, South Brisbane, and Fairfield. The organisation also supports people in Logan City when there are sufficient resources available to do so.
Between 200 – 300 people each week rely on Community Friends for food, clothing and to keep themselves warm.
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Can you help or make a donation? Make Sandwiches for Community Friends! Get a group of friends together and make sandwiches to give out at one of our Weekly Food Stalls. 200 would be good, 300 would be better. Have a sandwich party on a Tuesday night and come along the next day to meet our community and give them some fresh food. Even just once off will make a huge difference.