Food Bank

TLC Support Inc. operates a food bank that provides food relief for people living in the postcode area (3153) facing financial hardship, unemployment, poverty and difficult circumstances.

Food donations are received from the church community and the Vic Relief Foodbank program, a program of Foodbank Australia as well as purchasing additional items to enhance the range of food we can offer.

Food Parcels are available from the TLC Office: Monday & Tuesday 1 - 4pm

Fresh Youth Theatre - (currently in recess)

‘Our aim is to have a positive impact on young people’s lives by providing them with life long lessons through creative experience’

Using the medium of theatre we encourage the strong, give support to the timid, remind the indifferent and warn the oppressor.

FRESH is a youth focused initiative of TLC Support Inc. It is a self-esteem building and personal development program specifically designed for secondary school aged young people in difficult life situations. FRESH provides a forum for self-expression and social engagement, healthy risk-taking and a sense of belonging.

Thursdays 4.30pm – 7.00pm
265 Canterbury Rd, Bayswater North

Two Performance seasons a year facilitated by skilled and qualified teachers, performance artists, directors and youth workers.

Explore Youth and Family Therapy (Explore)

Explore supports young people to discover their potential, grow in self-care, develop strategies for a healthy relationship with family and others, to connect with the community and live well.

Explore utilises counselling, therapeutic group work, narrative and bush adventure therapy in many settings; home, school and the bush to achieve its objectives.

Explore is a not-for-profit and values partnerships with other organisations and volunteers to provide a varied and flexible approach to meet the needs of young people, with a focus on those 'at risk' and families in distress.

YaFT supports young people and families in need or distress in Eastern & Southern Melbourne and Gippsland, having developed over the last 30 years.

Refugees

Community Garden

A community garden space for growing vegetables to meet essential food needs and develop gardening skills.

Learning Together Karen Women’s Group

Thursday morning 9.30 am-12.30 pm during school terms

A craft and cooking group for Karen Refugee Women. This is a great opportunity to socialize and learn new skills. Each week we practice conversational English as we learn together.

The Brink

Contact: Office@tlcchurch.org.au

Tuesday 10am (includes lunch)

The Brink is an art and craft drop in centre for isolated and lonely members of the community to engage. The program runs for 4 hours every week. A light lunch and coffee is available for a minimal fee.

One of the projects of the Brink community has been to make a Butterfly Quilt for The Butterfly Children’s Hospice in China.

Winter Shelter

Winter is a terrible time to have nowhere safe and warm to sleep.

There is a great shortage of overnight accommodation for homeless men, in Maroondah. It's tough for everybody struggling with low cost accommodation, but while there are programs for homeless youth, and significant resources for homeless women and children, there are very few places homeless men can go.

The churches of Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs, specifically in the City of Maroondah have decided to make their spaces available to the homeless men, on a rotating, nightly basis, and to provide an evening and breakfast meal. The program is called Winter Shelter, and you can read about it, and volunteer your time by visiting the website http://wintershelter.org.au and see how it’s changing the world, for the homeless men of Maroondah. With a warm place to sleep, supportive people, and hot, nourishing food, their winter will be very different from what they expected.

Breakfast Club

This activity feeds students at Bayswater Secondary College and promotes good nutrition and learning.