Parishes
Church Community Fund
The 2025 Anglicare WA Church Community Fund is intended to encourage Anglican churches throughout WA to apply to Anglicare WA for grants of up to $1,000 each to carry out specific community development work in their community.
Examples of previous successful applicants include:
Community Garden
School breakfast club
Community lunches/morning teas to address issues of social isolation
BBQ and outdoor equipment to engage young people
Primary school gardening club to engage at risk children
Material support to offer to distressed households
Conversation club for refugee and migrant communities
For more information, please call Kelly Keall on 9263 2066 or email kelly.keall@anglicarewa.org.au
Applications are now closed for the 2025 Church Community Fund Grants. Applicants will be notified if their application was successful by 4th April 2025.
THE APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications need to address each of the grant questions.
Please feel free to add any extra information you feel will help describe the project or event. The application will be assessed by the following:
The project or event’s contribution to your parish’s mission.
The way the project or event complements Anglicare WA’s work.
The overall benefit to your local community.
Whether the initiative will build community in your locality.
Please note applications can only be granted under the following conditions:
Applicants must be prepared to provide follow up information as requested on a reporting form.
A parish can only receive one grant of up to $1,000 in any calendar year.
Applicants will be notified if their application was successful by 4th April 2025.
People Experiencing Homelessness
- A Guide for Parishes
This Guide has been created to provide Parishes with ideas and advice on how to best respond to people experiencing homelessness. It also assists with the best possible Christian response to the reality of homelessness when it reaches the door of the local parish, and also when people experiencing homelessness may sleep rough on parish sites.
We provide ideas and advice on how to offer hospitality to people experiencing homelessness, with a focus on support and referral to offer opportunities to begin the transition from homelessness to having a home. It also includes an overview of the dimension of homelessness, as well as a reflection on how our practical response to homelessness can be informed by our faith, following in the way of Jesus Christ and our engagement in God’s Mission in a local parish context.
Responding to Experiences of Domestic Abuse
- A Guide for Parishes
This Guide aims to equip the Anglican Church in Western Australia in their mission to support parishioners, lay and clergy in how to respond to disclosures of domestic abuse.
This is a resource for everyone, helping develop the knowledge and capability to understand what to look for to identify domestic abuse; response appropriately and compassionately to victims; and hold perpetrators to account and support them to change.
We want to address and change societal attitudes, beliefs, and values that cultivate and perpetuate violence to create lasting safety. All of this starts with awareness.
