WARM: Winter Accommodation Resource Movement

20/07/2026

WARM – Winter Accommodation Resource Movement supports people experiencing homelessness and hardship across Melbourne’s north.

Interested in volunteering?

Join our online New Volunteer Information Session to learn about WARM, our volunteer roles, and how you can get involved.

Register for the session here:
https://events.humanitix.com/volunteer-with-warm-online-information-session

The session covers:

* What WARM does
* Volunteer roles and how shifts work
* Safety, respect, and guest dignity
* What to expect after joining and how to pick up shifts

Whether you can help once, occasionally, or regularly, your time and care can make a difference.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Learn how to volunteer with WARM [Winter Accommodation Resource Movement] and support people experiencing homelessness across Melbourne’s north.

06/07/2026

This is why we do what we do. It matters because it makes a difference. If you have kindness, we’d love to hear from you.
👉🏼We are recruiting for volunteers. DM us for information on how you can join the movement.

30/06/2026

The blissful reflection garden, with complimentary rainbow, at one of our venues. We are incredibly fortunate and our guests feel the same way.
The relief, the happiness, the laughter, the banter, shared meals and high stakes UNO with ever changing rules… it feels like family.
Thank you to our partners and volunteers who do an incredible job every day.
If you’d like to join us, please do 🙏🏼😊 Email [email protected] to register your interest or request further information.

27/06/2026

26/06/2026

Well this is truly wonderful 🫶🏼

$683 raised for WARM!
A huge thank you to our students, families and staff for supporting today's Student Leader-led Casual Clothes Day fundraiser.

Together, our College community raised $683 for the WARM: Winter Accommodation Resource Movement, helping support people experiencing homelessness across Melbourne's northern suburbs this winter.

A wonderful way to finish the term by making a meaningful difference in our local community.

13/06/2026

❤️ A Warm Welcome for Our Winter Shelter Guests ❤️

One of the things we wanted most for our guests arriving at the WARM Winter Shelter was for them to feel welcomed, valued, and cared for from the moment they walked through the door.

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our supporters, community members, and partner organisations, each guest received a welcome pack filled with practical items to help them stay warm, comfortable, and supported throughout their stay.

Each guest receives

🛏️ A brand new sleeping bag, kindly donated through the support of Preston Bunnings and Rotary.

🛌 A brand new pillow, generously donated by Laura from Kindly.

👕 New clothing, including essential items such as underwear and socks
🧴 A hygiene pack containing toiletries and personal care items.
Kindly donated by generous community and church members, Waan and her Thai friends and Hands heart.

🎒 Additional practical items to help make their stay more comfortable.

For many people experiencing homelessness, receiving brand new items is something that happens far less often than most of us realise. There is something incredibly special about being able to offer not just warmth and comfort, but dignity. Knowing that these items belong to them and have never been used by anyone else can mean so much.

The smiles, gratitude, and relief on our guests’ faces as they receive their packs reminds us that sometimes it is the simple things that make the biggest difference.

To everyone who donated items, funds, time, and support to help make these welcome packs possible — thank you. Your kindness helps ensure that every guest arrives to a warm welcome and knew that their community cares.

❤️ Together, we are creating more than a shelter. We are creating a place where people feel safe, respected, and valued.

12/06/2026

❄️ WARM Winter Shelter – Night Two ❄️

Tonight we moved to our second venue for the WARM Winter Shelter, hosted by the wonderful Thornbury Church of Christ.

A very special thank you to Sue Maric and the church community for so generously opening your doors and allowing us to use your amazing church. Your hospitality, kindness, and willingness to be part of this program are helping provide warmth, safety, and dignity to people experiencing homelessness this winter.

One of the unique things about the WARM program is seeing different church communities come together to support some of our most vulnerable community members. Every venue, every volunteer, every meal, and every act of kindness helps make this possible.

Tonight’s menu was Sweet and Sour chicken with Rice or Mashed potatoes, creamy chicken pasta followed by cake and coffee. Our heartfelt thanks to Heta from ADRA for the amazing donations of food for our winter shelter ❤️

To Sue, the volunteers, and everyone at Thornbury Church of Christ, thank you for being part of something so important. Your generosity is making a real difference in the lives of people who are doing it tough.

Together, we are creating more than just a shelter. We are creating a community of care, compassion, and hope.

❤️❄️🏠

12/06/2026

❄️ WARM Winter Shelter – Opening Night ❄️

On Wednesday night, after months of planning, preparation, meetings, training sessions, fundraising, donations, and the incredible efforts of so many people, the day we had all been working towards finally arrived.

The doors of the WARM Winter Shelter opened for our first night at St Peter’s Anglican Church Bundoora, welcoming our first guests into a warm, safe space out of the cold.

There was a real sense of excitement, relief, and gratitude as volunteers came together and everything that had been planned for so long became a reality. Seeing the shelter come to life was a special moment for everyone involved.

Our guests were treated to an absolutely incredible home-cooked meal prepared by the amazing Noni. Dinner was a feast of roast lamb, roast pumpkin, roast potatoes, peas, carrots, rich gravy, mint sauce, cauliflower cheese, and cauliflower with cheese sauce.

And as if that wasn’t enough, dessert was a delicious homemade apple crumble that had everyone going back for seconds!

Each guest was also welcomed with practical items to help make their stay more comfortable. They received a brand-new sleeping bag, generously donated through the support of Preston Bunnings and Rotary, a brand-new pillow kindly donated by Laura from Kindly, and a clothing and hygiene pack containing toiletries, underwear, socks, and other essentials generously donated by Hands Hearts Hope and members of our community.

These may seem like simple items, but for someone doing it tough, they provide comfort, dignity, warmth, and the knowledge that people genuinely care.

A warm bed, a hot meal, friendly faces, and a place where people are welcomed with kindness and dignity – that’s what WARM is all about.

To every volunteer, donor, supporter, church member, and community partner who helped make this first night possible, thank you. This shelter exists because of people who care enough to step forward and make a difference.

Here’s to the beginning of a very special winter season, where together we can offer warmth, hope, friendship, and a safe place to belong.

❤️🏠❄️