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Christmas Campaign 2024

Stories of Hope

Christmas Campaign 2024

Stories of Hope

Christmas Campaign 2024

Stories of Hope

Arthur Maddocks-Brown

4 June

Written By Abbie Williams

Abbie Williams

Sue Jay

Rachel Marchesi

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With our Christmas Campaign well underway, we are just delighted to see the thoughtful Christmas Cards of Hope being sent in.

Letters of Hope volunteer, Shirley, had hand crafted these beautiful creations 🎄

The inside says:

"Here's a little

The aim of a letter of hope is to reassure the recipient that they are not alone, and that they are going to get through this hard time. The letter contains words of encouragement and an acknowledgement that life can be difficult at times and not to

To help us reach out to those people who find Christmas challenging we need your help.

You can do this in a number of ways:

1. Write a Christmas card of hope and send it to Letters of Hope
2. Run a group letter writing activity
3. Donate what you w

I wrote this article about my recent Bipolar 2 diagnosis. To read it, head to our website via the link in our bio and navigate to the ‘blog’ section.

It’s scary, as always, being vulnerable. But if me sharing can help just one per

Letters of Hope volunteer, Tracy, has been busy crafting with some of our recently generously donated Stampin' Up supplies and more, as well as thoughtfully putting pen to paper and writing some beautiful, kindhearted words for our letter recipients.

Last week, we had the privilege of being part of VetPartners Australia and New Zealand New and Recent Graduate Symposium in NSW, supported by Hill's Pet Nutrition. This event was all about setting new and recent graduate veterinarians up for success.

I'd like to extend a big thank you to Alyce from B.OKideas who partnered with us in recent months to encourage organisations to run letter writing activities and events with this amazing letter writing box.

This has made an incredibly huge impact, a

When you were a child, did you ever write a letter to Santa with your Christmas wish list?

The letter would be put into Santa’s mailbox and you would live in the hope that on Christmas day your wish list would be granted.

Whilst you may no lo

We love to hear stories from our Volunteers about how the community and businesses are supporting their volunteer journey and Letters of Hope.

Thanks to volunteer, Chris Savvy, for sharing. Thanks so much Ozcorp for your support!

Gosh how cute are these? Received from a friendship group of high school students all the way from the USA.

They got together over some lunch, 10 friends, and had so much fun with this! In their words:

"We wrote ten letters and plan to do thi

Even on Halloween, taking care of yourself can be a treat (no tricks here)! Here are some spooktacular self-care tips to help you feel good while enjoying the spooky season:

🕯️ Light a Candle – Turn your space into a cosy, witchy haven with s

It often surprises people when I share that in my late teens, one of my biggest fears was public speaking. Why is this surprising? Because now, I absolutely love it. Today, I regularly speak in front of groups of up to 600 people with confidence, aut

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves.”
Ralph Waldo Emers

Would you like to put some positive vibes out into the world and feel them come back

Just like a rainy-day savings account, if you deposit daily into your happiness account you will gradually fill your cup and experience moments of joy. When life sucks and you have to take some deposits out of your account, you won’t hit rock b

A massive THANK YOU to Steph at Postix for her incredible donation of stickers for our letter writing workshops. We are absolutely blown away by the sheer volume of stickers – it’s way more than we could have ever imagined! These little g

It's that time of year again! 🎄 🎅 🎁 ❄️

We are so SO excited to announce our 2024 Christmas campaign. Here are some photo reminders of all that we achieved last year.

When you were a child, did you ever write a letter to Santa telling him what y

This week, we have 200 Letters of Hope going out to Young Carers as part of an event that celebrates them ❤️

We are always excited when we can collaborate with other organisations who are doing incredible work, and reach their service users so that

Whew! It's been an incredibly busy September & October for our Mental Health First Aid Training, Hope@Work Workshops, and Letter Writing Workshops with R U OK? Day last month and Mental Health Month this month.

Over these two months, we have tra

Sometimes it’s hard to ask for help. You may feel like you are being a bother. You may feel ashamed. You may feel less than. You dislike being vulnerable. You fear rejection. It can be helpful to reflect on what you would think if a loved one a

Thank you so much to everyone who dropped a token in the Letters of Hope jar at Grill'd Pacific Fair.

I'm so happy to announce that we received notification from Grill'd that our jar was the winner and we will receive a $300 donation from Grill'd as

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