Introducing #climb4rosies competition. To celebrate being proud charity of choice for the Activ8change and SkyPoint’s Q1 Stair Challenge 2016 we have organised a photo competition on Rosies facebook page. Rosies invites you to be creative (yet decent!). Have fun and best of luck!  Here’s how to enter.

1. Take a photo of yourselves with your mates wearing a red shirt on some stairs. Be inspired!
   
2. Tag it #climb4rosies.
3. Rosies may select and post your photo on our facebook page.
   
4. Share our facebook post with your friends.
5. The photo tagged #climb4rosies and posted on our Rosies facebook page with the most ‘likes’ will win some amazing prizes. Our first competition is a Personal Training Gift Pack from ASFIT Personal Training. Our second is a double pass to SkyPoint Climb – imagine standing on a platform, 279 meters above sea level!

   Go on, we dare you… take on #Q1stairchallenge – climb to support Rosies.

ASFIT Misfits Running Club is rising up to the challenge to climb the stairway to heaven to support local charity Rosies. Rosies is proud charity partner for Active8Change’s SkyPoint Sea to Sky Q1 Stair Challenge on the Gold Coast for the second year running on Sunday, February 28.

The ASFIT club decided to climb the 1,331 steps of Q1 in loving memory of one of their members’ daughter, who unknown to her parents became homeless and then a supporter of Rosies.
“The loss of our friend’s daughter, and the heartbreak she is suffering has greatly affected us and we wanted to show our support by fundraising for Rosies”, said Ms Scott.
“We decided to join together as a team and register for this year’s Q1 Stair Challenge to help raise awareness and funds for this remarkable local charity”, she said.

Gold Coast branch coordinator, Wendy Coe is so proud for Rosies to receive such thoughtful support and recognition.
“Our aspiration is to provide unconditional acceptance and friendship to people who are marginilised within our community – especially those who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, or simply lonely”, said Ms Coe.

Q1 is one of the most iconic buildings in the world and on February 28, 2016 you have the chance to take it on from sea level to SkyPoint! With a total of 77 floors this is a serious challenge but the view from the top of the observation level at SkyPoint will make all the hard work worth it.
Register and start fundraising for Rosies, or donate now.

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We are invited over Christmas, more than ever, to spare a thought, a prayer, or even a visit to our neighbour who will spend Christmas alone. According to Marcel Proust ‘the real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscape but having new eyes’. Let us adopt a different attitude towards our brothers and sisters. Let us look at them beyond the surface and misleading appearances. Christmas is a time of hope and compassion. Let us value our neighbours for who they truly are and we will find Jesus Christ dwelling in them.

I thank all of you who support Rosies. Whether you give time, money, or in-kind donations, you all make a difference. Rosies is a living community and you are part of it. I wish you all and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Fr John David
Rosies’ Chaplain

Rosies is looking for a local champion to develop our new Wynnum Branch, which has significant needs. Wynnum is our spiritual home being the base for our Oblate Chaplain at Iona College. The Iona College community is a very generous host of our State Support Office. We need you!

Apply here.

Rosies Cairns Branch, supporting those who are marginalised within our community – especially those who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or simply lonely, has launched its Christmas Appeal today after accepting a very generous donation of $500 from Dunwoody’s Fishing Club.

The money, along with another kind donation of $500 from Dunwoody’s Tavern, kick starts preparation for a special Christmas Day gathering for up to 100 homeless people in Cairns this year, which Rosies is organising in partnership with Anglicare.

Rosies’ Cairns Branch Coordinator, Susan Doye, said Christmas is traditionally a time for family get-togethers and celebrations but it is also an opportunity to think about those less fortunate in our community.

“With the support of many generous people in our community we have been running a Christmas Day event in Cairns for the homeless for some years – it conveys a message that Cairns cares,” Ms Doye said.

“The event will be held in the grounds of St John the Evangelist Anglican Church at the corner of Lake and Minnie streets from 4-6pm on Christmas Day,” she said.

Ms Doye said it was also good to recognise that Rosies, Anglicare, and other support agencies would be connecting to work together this Christmas to support those in need. Families, individuals, workplaces, and organisations can get involved by donating.

Most needed are Christmas items for take-away food parcels such as tinned food (ham, fish, puddings etc), sweets, savoury snacks, biscuits, nuts, soft drinks, juices. Items for Christmas presents suitable for a variety of ages from toys and puzzles, through to t-shirts,  caps, other clothing items, backpacks, cups, pens, books, magazines. Items should be new and unwrapped. Monetary donations will be used to buy cold and fresh items (chicken, ham, bread rolls etc).

“Those wanting to make an online donation visit Rosies website and specify in the space provided that donation is for the Cairns Christmas Appeal,” Ms Doye said.

Dunwoody’s Fishing Club representative, Anthony Crathern said the Club was delighted to make the first monetary donation towards Rosies’ Christmas Appeal.

“Being involved in fishing guarantees we will have a great Christmas but this was a great opportunity to help ensure that others who are less fortunate will have an opportunity to have a great Christmas too,” he said.

Click here to read the article from the Cairns Post.