News & Updates

Hello Friday!!! Another week of Amazing Quilts and Laundry Bags sent off to our ADF pers!! I think we can all agree, a great display of quilts and laundry bags, yet again from our amazing volunteers.... Please enjoy!!! 🌟🌟🌟 This week we dispatched 16 Quilts which takes...

I have two versions of experiences from the Tours of the Australian War Memorial. Firstly we have Hilary and Karen. We assembled in the outside sculpture garden where there is a beautiful sculpture of Simpson and his donkey. There have been recent renovations and...

Happy Wednesday Friends! Wow, November already! Christmas is just around the corner.... Please enjoy another wonderful collection of gratitude letters and images. So, grab a nice warm cuppa or cold drink (depending on where you live!), sit back and relax while you...

We had a fabulous time at the Volunteers' Gathering this year. We usually have one main speaker for the Volunteers' Gathering but this year, we had a fabulous selection of speakers. First came AIRCDRE Grant Pinder, one of our board members who introduced himself and...

 G'day folks,  As always there have been requests for copies of photso taken at the Annual Thank You Weekend.  There are too many to load onto the blog so we are sharing them on our Website. If you click on the link below you will be taken to the photos...

Hi all, A note from Jan-Maree. Please, please, please double check the postal address you are given. We have now had three parcels returned to sender due to incorrect addresses being used. In each situation we have had to cover the cost of postage to send the parcel...

I decided to do something a bit different this year and asked LCDR Amy Beal, Ret'd, our guest speaker, if she would consider writing a post I could share with you, describing her impressions of the evening. Amy and her trusty support dog, Oran Over to Amy..... I’ll...

Well another AHQ weekend done and dusted and what a fabulous weekend as always. Bobbie and I had a great day on the Saturday bus tour. Bel was our bus boss with clipboard in hand she did a sterling job making sure everyone was on board and no one got left behind. At...

Hello Friday!!! Another week of Amazing Quilts and Laundry Bags sent off to our ADF pers!! I think we can all agree, a great display of quilts and laundry bags, yet again from our amazing volunteers.... Please enjoy!!! 🌟🌟🌟 This week we dispatched 7 Quilts which takes...

On Friday the 16th in Canberra at our Volunteers' Gathering Mary Powell, one of our Board Members, presented the following and I thought it was something all of our volunteers would enjoy reading. More Than a Craft: Quilts as Art, History, Memory, and Community By...