Supporter Autumn 2023
At the end of 2022, we held our annual AnglicareSA Employee Appreciation Festival to acknowledge and celebrate our employees and the end of another busy year. The Festival was a great opportunity to say thank you to our employees for all that they do to support more than 51,000 South Australians each year. Thank you to the Festival’s principal partner and sponsors, Your Nursing Agency, Access Pay, Supply Clusters, Goodman Field Food Services, BidFood John Lewis Food Service and Liquor, Wasteflex and AON for their generous support of this event. Employee Appreciation Festival
The Toy Boys made and donated hundreds of wooden toys for Christmas
Toy Boys spreading the Christmas magic A tiny army of master craftsmen, tinkerers and toymakers help change little lives right across the state each Christmas. They are called the Toy Boys and their magic cave of toy making tools in Adelaide’s western suburbs delivered
The group soon rapidly expanded and moved to a larger factory space in Woodville. The Rotarians and other volunteers now operate out of the former Charles Sturt Council depot in Henley Beach, handmaking an array of toys that could rival Santa’s Workshop – everything from trucks and cars to mix-masters, cradles and pull along animals. The Toy Boys also make beautiful, wooden Memory Boxes for children and young people attending our Star Bear camps. These camps create a safe space for families, whose lives have been shattered by the loss of a loved one, to share their experiences and to help support their grief. AnglicareSA experienced a 20 per cent surge in demand for its Christmas hampers in 2022, as cost of living pressures stretched already limited budgets over the festive period.
close to 500 meticulously crafted traditional wooden toys for children in need at Christmas. The toys – including trains and ride-on rocking horses – were donated by the Toy Boys to eight separate charities, including AnglicareSA. AnglicareSA delivered the toys to families making the difficult choice of paying the rent or placing gifts under the Christmas tree. “We volunteer our time to do this because we want to be able to provide for young people who don’t have anything at Christmas,” says Toy Boys workshop team leader John Cook. The Toy Boys were formed in 1992 when the late Ron Bettinson, a member of the Rotary Club of Charles Sturt Grange, began making toys in his shed at home.
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