Where the Funds Go
Bayside Women’s Shelter Board of Directors are a fully committed team of unpaid volunteers who come from a variety of professional and personal backgrounds. Some who have themselves been domestic violence victims. The one thing we all have in common is an incredible passion for helping women and children escaping domestic and family violence and homelessness.
The following are the ways that your help gets put to great use – we are making a real difference in the community, please join us.
$10
A pre-paid phone card assists to help a woman make the calls she needs to start getting her life back on track
$20
Enables a woman to access subsidised counselling and support services
$25
Provides groceries to support a woman in the shelter for 3 days
$50
Provides a hot meal and a safe, comfortable place to stay overnight
$100
Provides immediate crisis assistance to a woman in her first 24 hours in the shelter
$500
Pays for further education in TAFE and other courses facilitating a woman’s economic independence
$700
Supports a woman entirely for a week in the shelter
$1,000
Provides a year’s worth of access to communications essentials – phone, tablet, internet access to find jobs and permanent housing opportunities
$4,000
Provides an entirely supported months stay in the shelter
$8,000
Covers everything one woman needs including food, accommodation, transport and support to access doctors, counsellors and services
$50,000
Supports approximately 6 women through their entire journey and you become a ‘Community Partner’
$90,000
Covers part of our professional and highly qualified caseworker team run Bayside Women’s Shelter for a year
$200,000
Pays half the entire costs of running a shelter for 12 months including electricity and water to keep our washing machines going, rent for our Shelter, provision of security to ensure the safety of those at our Shelter
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