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Free gift cards, groceries, blankets, money, and prescriptionsUpdated 27 April 2024
Have a detailed story backed by receipts showing that your income has been allocated for that fortnight. Good stories are better than the truth, but self-corrupting. Try to be honest. Most joints are funded by government so you’re not robbing generous donors, but don’t be greedy.
Most places allow two or three visits a year. Most don’t share information with each other, but some do and remember that nearly everything you say will eventually end up on the Eternal Shame File. Go along with their concept of “emergency assistance”. Each place is different so expect to make many phone calls. They may require I.D., a Centrelink statement and receipts for that fortnight. Best you take a Centrelink printout and don’t give them access to your electronic file. Cross out sections on their application that gives them the right to collect and share information about you. If they insist, qualify it by writing a limitation on the form. Feel free to explain that you’re asking for help, but not giving them access to your private life and that while they’re decent people, not everyone else may be. Workers in some joints become angry when asked about privacy because behind their smiles they know they’re betraying you. If they offer you nothing, thank them for their time and leave slowly. Don’t get upset like an amateur or baby-adult. Care Works (Church of Christ) 114 Henley Beach Road, Torrensville, Adelaide, Emergency Relief (08) 8234 5828 Lutheran Welfare 309-311 Prospect Rd, Blair Athol Shop 7/8, 109-111 Murray Street (enter via MacDonnell Street), Tanunda Anglicare Adelaide, 82 Gilbert St, Adelaide. Phone 1800 571 097 Elizabeth shopping centre, The Clock Tower, Playford Blvd, Ph 1800 061 551 Christies Beach, 111 Beach Rd, Christies Beach. Ph 1800 748 149 Woodville, Ph 1800 571 097 Wallaroo, Corner Hughes Street and Church Street, Wallaroo, Ph0417 158 392 Whyalla. Phone 0417 788 915 Salvation Army Hotline (08) 8130 6188 This is the coldest hotline in welfare history. Very hard to get through. You apply by phone then pick up whatever they’re offering from the Corps of your choice. St Vincent de Paul Society (Catholic) Phone 1300 729 202. Very nice, but they can get a little snarly at times. Uniting Care (Uniting Church) Uniting Care are operated by professionals, amateurs, kindly people and psychopaths, the latter quite approachable once you realise they’re crazy and should be spoken to very carefully. Never tell them you realise they’re totally insane. Pretend everything is alright. Enfield: 08 7120 7837 UnitingCare Gawler: 08 8522 4522 UnitingCare Glenelg: 08 8295 1771 UnitingCare Kapunda 08 8566 2125 UnitingCare Modbury: 08 8117 2219 UnitingCare Mount Barker: (Dunn Memorial Uniting Church)08 8391 2513 UnitingCare Mount Gambier: 08 8725 5377 UnitingCare Noarlunga: 08 8384 3868 UnitingCare North Adelaide (Brougham Place Uniting Church): 8267 2657 Uniting in Care Salisbury: 08 8258 2675 UnitingCare Taperoo (Lefevre Uniting Church): 08 7120 6558 UnitingCare Woodville Gardens (The Grove Uniting Church): 0412 107 105 Country homeless service Ph 1300 067 777 Baptist Care WestCare, 212 Wright Street, Adelaide. Ph 8118 5200. Southern Pathways, Cnr Beach Rd and Fowey St., Christies Beach. (08) 7200 2501. SWAP Op Shop; 29 Wallace Street Balaklava. (Phone: 08-88621876) Kings Baptist Church, 93 Wynn Vale Drive, Wynn Vale. Ph (08) 8289 1866 Plus other Baptist Churches and welfare centres. Other Joints NECAP, 489 Northeast Road, Hillcrest. ph 8266 2780 Uniting Communities (Adelaide) Ph 1800 615 617. This is one strange corporation where business people took over the Adelaide Central Mission, sold off its rehabilitation properties and build a $100 million glass tower after demolishing the Maughan Church. Once again, they’re probably stark raving mad and dangerous so treat them carefully. Adelaide Day Centre 28 Moore Street, Adelaide, Ph (08) 8232 0048. Not sure what they give. |
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