The Uniting Church Board of Social Responsibility is an agency of the Uniting Church in Australia. It runs welfare programmes, including children’s programmes. When the Uniting Church was created in 1977 from Methodist, Presbyterian and Congregationalist parishes the Uniting Church Board of Social Responsibility assumed responsibility for children’s homes that had been run by the…
Iandra Lodge was established on Burwood Road, Burwood in 1975, following the closure and sale of the Iandra Methodist Rural Centre at Greenthorpe. A hostel for young men who had been referred from the courts, it was run by the Methodist Department of Christian Citizenship and held nine residents. The Uniting Church Board of Responsibility…
Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity linked with John Wesley and known for mission work. The Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia was formed in 1946. Some members of the Methodist Church of Australasia formed a union with the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches in 1977. The Wesleyan Methodist Church, New South Wales, remained independent and…
The Iandra Methodist Rural Centre was at Iandra Castle at Greenthorpe, near Cowra. It was a training farm for boys aged 15 to 18 years who were first offenders and opened in 1956. In the first five years, over 50 young men lived there. Iandra was run by the Methodist Church’s Department of Christian Citizenship…
Elsie Cook Cottage was a hostel for girls who had previously resided at Bailey Cottage that was part of the Methodist Church’s Heighway House Project. It provided hostel-style accommodation for twelve working age girls and accepted girls who had previously resided at Bailey Cottage and also from Westwood at Bowral. Elsie Cook Cottage was named…
Westwood, at Bowral, was a residential education centre for girls over sixteen years old with mild intellectual disabilities that opened in 1965. It was run by the Methodist Department of Christian Citizenship, and commenced operation in April 1965 with an initial intake of nine girls. By 1968 Westwood held up to 90 girls and women….
Heighway House was a Methodist Church project that provided hostels for adolescent girls. The first hostel was established in 1960 in Drummoyne and provided accommodation for seven girls aged 15 to 18. It then moved to Duffy Avenue, Thornleigh and became a hostel for 12 working age girls. In 1969 Bailey Cottage, in Coogee, was…
Bailey Cottage, in Carr Street Coogee, was bought in 1969 by the Youth Welfare Association of Australia and given to the Methodist Church’s Heighway House Project. It housed some of the Hopewood ‘children’, who were nearing adulthood, as well as state wards and children in need of intensive counselling and support with life skills. It…
The Tahmoor Children’s Home, at Tahmoor, was established by members of the Vaucluse Congregational Church in 1941. It began as a holiday home then was converted to permanent or temporary care for up to 20 boys and girls from 5 to 15 years who were unable to live with their families. Tahmoor Children’s Home appears…
St Andrew’s Home was a boys’ home set up by the Presbyterian Social Services Department around 1943. Originally located at Manly, it was transferred to a 400 acre farm property at Leppington, on the Hume Highway south of Liverpool in around 1962. It catered for twenty boys aged ten to fifteen years. St Andrew’s residents…
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