The Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, also known as the Church of England Home Mission Society, the Anglican Home Mission Society and the Home Mission Society, was formed in Sydney in 1857. It was controlled by the Sydney Diocese of the Church of England and its primary object was to help…
Anglicare is the urban mission and community care arm of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Previously, it was the Home Mission Society of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney. Anglicare provides a wide range of community services and programs across the Sydney metropolitan and Illawarra regions of New South Wales. Anglicare manages the records of a…
Anglicare Child and Family Services replaced Care Force in 1997. It held and managed the records of a number of Church of England children’s homes in the Sydney Church of England/Anglican Diocese. In 2008 this organisation became known as Anglicare Out-of-Home Care, part of the Anglicare Child Youth and Family Services Department. Anglicare Out-of-Home Care…
The Anglican Diocese of Armidale was established in 1914. Previously, it was known as the Diocese of Armidale and Grafton. The Diocese had two children’s Homes, run by a committee of management – Ohio Boys’ Home and Coventry Home. In a statement to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2016,…
Broughton Lodge was a hostel run by the Church of England for girls from the country attending school in Geraldton. Broughton Lodge opened in 1942, initially taking in non-Aboriginal girls from rural areas, and from 1953 taking in Aboriginal girls only. In addition to their school work girls at the hostel received domestic training. Aboriginal…
St John’s by the Sea, in Beach Road, Sandringham, was a cottage-style Home for 20 boys. It was run by St John’s Home for Boys. It opened in 1951, was still open in 1954, and possibly closed in 1958. The residents of St John’s by the Sea included child migrants from Britain. The Home was…
Ruthven Hostel was run by the St John’s Home for Boys and Girls in association with the Church of England Boys’ Society. Located in Reservoir, it provided accommodation for 6 to 8 boys. In the 1980s, the Church of England Boys’ Society established the Community Services Foundation Youth Welfare Trust, as a means of attracting…
The Girls’ Friendly Society (GFS) was established in Victoria in 1883. The movement was originally established in England in the 1870s. It had strong links to the Church of England. In Melbourne, the GFS provided accommodation and services to immigrants and female travellers. According to O’Hanlon, the Girls’ Friendly Society ‘operated a system whereby unchaperoned…
Mission House was the headquarters of the Mission to the Streets and Lanes. From the 1950s until the 1970s, some single mothers were accommodated at Mission House during their pregnancies. In 1952, the Mission relocated from Mission House in Spring Street, Melbourne, to new premises at 116 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy. In the early 1970s, Mission…
The St Paul’s Home for Boys was established in 1955 by the Mission of St James and St John. It was located at Newhaven, Phillip Island, on the site of the former St Paul’s Training School. In 1979, it ceased to be a Home and became the site of the St Paul’s Discovery Centre, a…
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