NEWS AND EVENTS
BRETHREN CHARITY SPREADS LOVE, HOPE AND GRATITUDE IN MOUNT BARKER
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has joined forces today with the Love, Hope and Gratitude Foundation, which aims to raise community awareness and bring hope, love and support to those in need. This will mark the first time the RRT have supported the Foundation, which is...
BRETHREN CHARITY HELPING BALLARAT FILL THEIR PIGGY BANKS
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has again joined forces with the Very Special Kids to support the 2019 Very Special Kids Piggy Bank Appeal, a community fundraising event which is aiming to raise over a million dollars for sick kids. The RRT have been supporting the Piggy...
LOCAL BRETHREN VOLUNTEERS SUPPORT QUEENSLAND POLLIE PEDAL
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has again showed their support for the Pollie Pedal 2019, which sees politicians this year ride hundreds of kilometres for the charity Soldier On. The ride kicked off yesterday morning in Currumbin and will finish in Brisbane next Sunday 21...
BRETHREN CHARITY SUPPORTS ANNUAL VINNIES CEO SLEEPOUT
The number of people across the country without a place to call home continues to rise. In NSW, homeless increased from about 25% to a third, between 2001 and 2016, with most of the increase concentrated in Sydney (16.1% to 24.9%). Homelessness rates are becoming more...
FENCES FOR FARMERS DEVASTASTED BY FIRES & DROUGHT
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has today donated 25 tonnes of fencing, worth nearly $100,000, to famers and their families who have been devastated by recent fires and drought. Following the February fires that tore across the Tingha Plateau, the RRT has donated 24...
RAPID RELIEF TEAM’S DROUGHT DOCUMENTARY, OPERATION DROUGHT RELIEF, IS NOW SCREENING ON QANTAS FLIGHTS
With much of the east coast of Australia in drought last year, Plymouth Brethren volunteers from the Rapid Relief Team formed Operation Drought Relief, rallying to deliver thousands of bales of hay, and hope, to Aussie farmers in need. Operation Drought Relief is a...
GOOD FRIDAY APPEAL FOR VICTORIA’S DESERVING CHILDREN
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has today supported The Royal Children’s Hospital in its Good Friday Appeal, which raised money for the Hospital to provide first class care for children. RRT volunteers worked throughout the day to provide more than 1,600 meals to...
AUSSIE CHARITY RALLIES AROUND FRENCH COUNTERPARTS DURING NOTRE DAME INFERNO
Australian charity, the Rapid Relief Team (RRT), has provided vital support to emergency services personnel who worked tirelessly to battle the devastating Notre Dame Cathedral fire this week. The RRT distributed more than 600 meals, including brioche and soup, to...
TECHNOLOGY IS A HUGE FEATURE OF NEW BRETHREN SCHOOL OAKWOOD’S LAUNCESTON CAMPUS
Education for Launceston and the North-West's Brethren community has taken on a new form, with Oakwood School offering technology-laden ways of learning. Oakwood School is an amalgamation of the former Devonport and Launceston Brethren school and has now joined a...
CALL CENTRE TRANSFORMED INTO STATE-OF-THE-ART TASMANIAN SCHOOL
Oakwood School in Launceston has completely overhauled a former banking call centre to become a cutting-edge school for up to 100 students from Year 3 to Year 12. Unveiled last month, the school has transformed an uninspiring corporate building into a vibrant learning...