The Christ Church Boys League Welfare Bureau was set up Sydney in 1936 by the Church of England’s Reverend John Hope, through the Home Mission Society, to help boys through the Children’s Court.
The Church of England Deaconess Institution was a women’s religious order that operated the Deaconess Children’s Home and Domestic Training School, in Balmain, Ashfield and Annandale, from 1893-1914. They also operated Lisgar Training Service for Domestic Servants from 1893-1909 and Lisgar Children’s Home, in Harrison Street Marrickville, from 1914 to 1929, and at a property…
The Christ Church St Laurence Welfare Bureau ran after-care clinics and employment schemes to assist boys who had been through criminal hearings in the Children’s Court but were discharged. It was part of Christ Church St Laurence, an Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) Church based in Haymarket. It is thought to have operated between 1936 and around 1941.
Margaret Harris Hospital was built at North Parramatta in 1917 by Burnside Presbyterian Homes for Children as a hospital for children who were living in the Homes. It was later replaced by a larger building on Masons Drive, opposite the North Parramatta Burnside Homes. The last patient was discharged on 23 June 1982 and the…
The Community of the Sisters of the Church of England, also known as the Kilburn Sisters, is a group of Anglican religious women. They ran the Church of England Orphanage in Burwood, as well as a number of schools. They have been active in Australia since 1892.
Avona Hostel, in Glebe, was set up by the Anglican Home Mission Society in 1947. It was for boys aged 15 to 18 who had appeared before the Children’s Court and were described by the Home Mission Society as ‘neglected, homeless or unwanted.’ The hostel held 25 boys. Avona Hostel closed around 1962. Avona Hostel…
The Church Rescue Home was established in 1885 and run by a committee associated with the Church of England Temperance Society. It opened as a Home for the “rescue” of “intemperate”, “inebriate”, and “fallen” women (‘Church Home for the Intemperate and the Fallen’, published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 September 1884), including teenage girls….
In 1983 the Wagga District Council (Riverina District Council) branch of the United Protestant Association closed Gumleigh. The funds from the sale of the property were used to finance two family group homes, one in Heydon Street and one in Grandview Avenue. In 1985 the scheme was phased out and the homes were closed.
Henson Cottage was a family group home that was established at Orange by the United Protestant Association in 1982. It is thought to have closed in the late 1990s.
The Adelaide Walker Family Group Home was opened by the United Protestant Association at Orange in 1982. It is thought to have closed in the 1990s.
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