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Carevan Blacktown’s Community and Communal Table

Thank You Belmonte Italian Cuisine! 🍕💛🍕

A huge big warm HUG to Sue and Tanya Stafa, and the amazing team at Belmonte Italian Cuisine for your incredible generosity Tuesday night ~ Soooooo many delicious pizzas made with love for our community meal!

The communal table of Carevan Blacktown shines every week with trays and bowls of delicious and nutritious support from across the community and our supporters and food stars are the best in the biz ~ and it was wonderful to have Tanya and Sue and the team from Belmonte’s join with us in serving this fab addition to our communal table 🍕

We’re so very grateful for your kindness and the warmth you bring to our community .. every week ..in so many ways and this week we are especially thankful for this super contribution to the evening’s bountiful table.

It really does take a village and we’re so lucky to have you shiney folks and your lovely Italian restaurant in ours.

Bella, Bella , Bella ~ Grazie mille 💚🧄🫑🍕🍅💚

If you’d like to contribute to our cooking team or donate food and pantry staples for hampers please get in touch

info@carevanblacktown.org.au

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Winter’s Chill

It’s chilly and winter has definitely settled in in Sydney town

So many people in our local community are facing the cold without the basic comfort of warmth.

We are committed to supporting individuals and families doing it tough in all kinds of practical ways and, at this time of the year, we need your help to provide some extra layers of warmth.

We are running a Blanket Appeal to collect new or clean, gently used blankets, warm clothing and apparel to distribute to those experiencing homelessness or severe financial hardship.

A warm blanket can make a significant difference for someone sleeping rough or struggling to heat their home ~ or themselves!!

We would love it if you could help with ~

Donating a blanket or two (new or ‘gently used’)

Host a collection point at your workplace, school, or community group

Spread the word about our appeal to friends, family, and local networks

Alternatively, we can purchase blankets on your behalf if you’d like instead to donate funds (get in touch via email info@carevanblacktown.org.au) and we’ll help with this kindness!

Get knitting ~ we LOVE this handmade heart felt care

With your support, we can help our community to face the winter

Thank you for your compassion, kindness and generosity ~ you are the warmth in the Carevan Blacktown furnace

National Volunteers Week 2025

 
A HUGE and heartfelt Thank You to Our Amazing Green team Volunteers at Carevan Blacktown!
Every week, our Carevan Blacktown volunteers show up with compassion, commitment, and kindness—but this week, during National Volunteer Week, we take a special moment to pause (just briefly!) and acknowledge the incredible impact they make on the lives of the community we serve and on the runnings of our charity itself.
Their selfless dedication of time, energy, and love for our community—and especially for those in need of a helping hand—does not go unnoticed. Week in and week out, they provide practical support, listening ears, and most importantly, a sense of welcome and belonging.
Each and every one of our incredible volunteers, brings something personal and unique to what we do—and that human touch is both invaluable and irreplaceable. We simply couldn’t do this without them, and truthfully, our society couldn’t thrive without the genuine kindness, compassion, and care they so freely give to others.
WE thank them all for being the heart of Carevan Blacktown and are endlessly grateful for all they contribute
We can’t share every photo or capture every moment, but wherever there’s a fluoro green shirt or yellow vest, something good and kind is happening.
Thank you to the army of green angels, behind the scenes and on the front line.
They are ALL incredible and make our community a better place, one Tuesday at a time

2025 – off and running

2025 is already big and busy and the demand for our services continues to grow. While we look forward to another year of care we know that we simply could not meet the need without the kindness and generosity of our Carevan Blacktown family—both near and far.
We are incredibly fortunate to have such strong support at Carevan Blacktown and extend our heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you.
A special shoutout as we get well and truly stuck into 2025 to

• Our hardworking clothing team, who spend countless hours sorting through donations to have everything ready for Tuesday evenings.

• Our incredible kitchen team, who work tirelessly to prepare and serve enormous amounts of food and meals with love.

• Our fundraising team, who help secure every much-needed dollar and are busy coming up with ways to do this, like the ‘Cuppa & a Cake’ on 12th April.

• The Warehouse Tuesday team, who get our van and truck packed, unpacked, packed again and ready to roll.

• Our home deliverers and food collectors, coffee station aficionados, the bad joke tellers, BBQ masters, market-stallers, cake makers, truck drivers & loaders, washer-upperers – SO many tasks and roles and so many, many green angels who make sure everything runs smoothly each week.

Beyond our dedicated team of volunteers, we are supported by an incredibly generous broader community support – invaluable in its contribution and work ~ and we thank you ALL for it – We are ever moving and a great deal goes into the running of this charity machine, and we are reliant on each and every cog ⚙️

There are so many wonderful people and organisations involved with keeping our wheels turning and we thank you all !
Your generosity, kindness, and unwavering support makes Carevan Blacktown’s service possible.
From the bottom of our hearts—thank you!

Carevan Blacktown Christmas Video 2024

A Picture is worth a thousand words
This beautiful video, taken at Christmas 2024, comes to us from our talented friends Oliver and Liam at Blueboy Films and we LOVE it. 🎥
Too often lost in the whirlwind of organisation, hard work and frenetic activity that culminates in this tremendous Christmas community event, on the day and in the months leading up to it ( & most weeks for that matter too) SO it is both a privilege and invaluable feedback, to be able to take pause and listen to some kind words from those we serve and hear just what a difference we can all make – do all make – together
We don’t need to say anything else – except Thank YOU to all who make Carevan Blacktown possible – our green angels are the most amazing, dynamic and giving human beings, our supporting partners are kind and benevolent beyond words and our community is generous without bounds ~ Without YOU all we would grind to a halt, so it is wonderful to be able to share this loveliness with you.
Our volunteers and supporters give tirelessly to Carevan Blacktown and to the community we support ~ from all kinds of skillset, experience, passion, background and profession. There are too many contributors, at Xmas and throughout the year, to mention for fear of leaving any one of them out, but each and every contribution is worth its weight in gold ( or green!) 💚
As one of our lovely supporters said recently – Carevan Blacktown is a great way to “re-pleasant your heart”
here’ a little snippet ….

Happy Carevan Blacktown New Year 2025

Merry Christmas 2024

Christmas 2024 Morning With Carevan Blacktown

Carevan Christmas 2024

High Tea and frivoli-tea at Carevan Blacktown

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