Anchor Community Care Ltd.

12/06/2026

Seventy young people. Every single one in stable housing. Not a single one exited into homelessness.

Those aren't just statistics, but behind each number is a young person who arrived without knowing how to cook, or pay a bill, or trust an adult who said they'd stay.

Our CEO Heidi Tucker has a short message about an exciting new opportunity, and how you can be part of it.

If Mia’s story moved you, now is the time to give.

Watch and donate: https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/

03/06/2026

When Mia first arrived at MyLife, she barely left her unit.

Cooking. Budgeting. Talking to a landlord. Things most of us picked up without noticing, she had to learn from scratch, in her own time, with people who stayed the course with her.

Two years later, she walked out knowing how to do all of it. And more importantly, she walked out knowing she could ask for help without it disappearing.

Right now, there's an empty building in Melbourne's South East waiting to become that place for the next group of young people.

Your donation before 30 June helps make it ready.

Help open the door: https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/

02/06/2026

We're incredibly grateful to the local Yarra Ranges businesses who have stepped up to support people experiencing homelessness through a partnership with Anchor Community Care and Yarra Ranges Council.

From providing meals and coffee to haircuts, barber services and dry cleaning, these businesses are helping people access practical support while restoring dignity, confidence and connection.

Addressing homelessness isn't something that community organisations do alone—it’s when the whole community comes together that we really start to see lives getting changed.

Thank you to every business owner and organisation that has stepped up.
Read the full story below, and if you are a local business owner (or know one) and want to get on board, let us know below and we’ll reach out.

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28/05/2026

Mia arrived at MyLife not knowing how to cook a meal.

She left two years later having signed her own lease, managed her own money, and built a life no one had prepared her for.

She's not a rare exception. She's what happens when young people get what most of us take for granted: a stable home and people in her life who don’t disappear the next day.

Over five years, not a single young person who has completed MyLife has exited into homelessness.

We're raising $350,000 to make sure more young people like Mia get that same chance, in a new Hub opening in Melbourne's South East.

https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/

27/05/2026

Anchor are All In for Reconciliation ⚫🟡🔴

Anchor is committed to supporting the national reconciliation movement and its efforts to promote equity between all peoples of Australia, and the process of solidifying the Victorian Treaty recognising all prior ownership of land and injustice experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Read more on our website: https://anchor.org.au/about/ -reconciliation-action-plan

26/05/2026

Every year on 26 May, we mark National Sorry Day to remember and acknowledge the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities.

We take this time to honour Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their culture and their families, and acknowledge the intergenerational trauma that still affects many First Nations families today.

22/05/2026

"When you grow up in residential care, you know from a young age that there's a deadline looming."

The day you turn 18 is the day the system stops.

"You don't know what comes after. You just know it will end."

Mia came to Anchor's MyLife Project as a teenager. One of the first things she asked her youth worker was: "How do I turn the oven on?"

No one had ever cared enough about her to show her.

At MyLife, she finally found time, stability, and people in her life who didn't leave the next day. Two years later, she signed her first lease. In her own name.

We're raising $350,000 to open a new MyLife Hub in Melbourne's South East, so that more young people can get what Mia had.

Help open the door:
https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/?utm_source=eofy2026&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=fundraising2026&utm_content=post2

14/05/2026

When you grow up in residential care, you know from a young age that there's a deadline coming.

The day you turn 18 is the day the system stops.

For around half of all young people leaving state care in Victoria, what follows within three years is homelessness.

The system ends abruptly, and nothing takes its place.

Anchor's MyLife program changes that. And right now, we have the chance to open a new Hub in Melbourne's South East, giving young people a real home and real support for the next decade.

Watch the story. Then help us open the door.

Act now: https://anchor.org.au/eofy-appeal-2026/?utm_source=eofy2026&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=fundraising2026&utm_content=post1

14/05/2026

We're gearing up for another winter season supporting the Stable One Winter Shelter.

The Winter Shelter is a lifeline for people sleeping rough in the Yarra Ranges. Somewhere they can access food, warmth, and comfort from people who care about their safety and wellbeing.

Last year we saw some great outcomes of people going on to access more stable accommodation because of the stability and support they are able to get while staying at the Winter Shelter.

It takes a big effort from a lot of people, and the Winter Shelter is looking for people to donate their time by becoming a volunteer during the winter.

The StableOne crew would love to hear from you if you are eager to make a difference and volunteer at the shelter this winter.

The warm autumn weather so far experienced in May might deceive some that winter’s far away, but for those at Stable One and partnering churches, preparations are in full swing for the coldest months. From 1 June, the Yarra Valley Winter Shelter will open its doors to those without a home or place...