News & Updates

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Grati-Wednesday 27th August 2025

by | 27 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! One of the thank you's in today's blog gave me a good chuckle. The recipient has a way with words! See if you can work out which one! We once again have a great lot of thank you's from around the globe. Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while...
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Request list 26 August 2025

by | 26 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Woo Hoo, only 8 weeks to go until we will be meeting in Canberra for our Annual Thank You Weekend. It promises to be a good weekend as always. For our newbies or those that have not attended before, we have a packed agenda or activities planned. This dinner is...
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Weekly Dispatch 22nd August 2025

by | 22 August 2025 | Weekly Dispatches | 0 Comments

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 26 Quilts which takes...
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Grati-Wednesday 20th August 2025

by | 20 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! Once again we have a multitude of thank you's from around the globe. Grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude! AHQ Thank You Dinner is only 66 sleeps! Don't forget to buy your tickets. *** Dear Jan-Maree,...
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Request List 19 August 2025

by | 19 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Cath here. Thank you all for your words of welcome and words of encouragement, much appreciated. Let me introduce you to one of our volunteers, Marianne. She does the mail on Wednesdays. Marianne posts out the items that you need for your request/s: for...
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Weekly Dispatch 15th August 2025

by | 15 August 2025 | Weekly Dispatches | 0 Comments

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 17 Quilts which takes...
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Grati-Wednesday 13th August 2025

by | 13 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Wednesday Friends! As the Request list has now moved to Tuesday we decided to move the Grati-blog to Wednesday.  It will give us that nice boost to get over the hump of the week!   Once again we have a multitude of thank you's from around the globe....
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Request List 12 August 25

by | 12 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Just wanted to introduce my self to you. My name is Cath Harper. I have met many recipients at the annual AHQ dinner. (Have you got your tickets yet?) I am a volunteer, I make quilts and laundry bags and am the first paid employee of AHQ. I will be primarily...
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Weekly Dispatch 8th August 2025

by | 8 August 2025 | Weekly Dispatches | 0 Comments

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 10 Quilts which takes...
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Grati-Tuesday 5th August 2025

by | 5 August 2025 | Grati | 0 Comments

Happy Tuesday Friends! Welcome to the first blog for August!     Another deluge of thank you's again this week from far and wide so grab a cuppa, sit back and relax while you soak up some well-deserved gratitude!   AHQ Thank You Dinner is only 81 sleeps!  Don't forget...
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Request List 4 August 25

by | 4 August 2025 | Request List | 0 Comments

Hi all, Well, as the picture says, it is Time for a Change. For the last 14 years the request list has gone out every Monday morning for you to peruse and select requests from. This means that I need to prepare the request list on Friday or some time over the weekend...
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Weekly Dispatch 1st August 2025

by | 1 August 2025 | Weekly Dispatches | 0 Comments

Hello Friday!!! Reminder that tickets for our Annual Thank You Weekend 2025 are on sale now for the whole weekend. Friday afternoon tour of ADFA - to be confirmed Friday night Volunteers' Gathering at The Rex Saturday morning breakfast at The Rex for any Newbies...
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Aussie Hero Quilts Requests 14 October 19

by | Oct 14, 2019 |

 Hi all,Laundry bags and quilts for the dinnner... we have lots of random LBs and dont need any more. I really need some personalised bags to be displayed so if you have any of those you can bring please let me know.Badges, crests, silhouettes…..Don’t be...

Discount for Defence Members, Past and Present.

by | Oct 12, 2019 |

I tried sharing this to the Facebook page with no luck for some reason so here it is as a blog post.. for Canberrans or those coming to Canberra.....Last night my husband and I went to dinner with dear friends who are RAAF recipients and one of their wives. When we...

Quilts and Laundry Bags Display at Annual Dinner

by | Oct 12, 2019 |

The Annual Thank You Dinneris only three weeks away!  It's crept up on us and we're almost there!At last year's event, the rooms were beautifully decorated with the Quilt and Laundry Bags finished and ready to be posted off to the Recipients.  It...

Weekly Dispatches 11th October 2019

by | Oct 11, 2019 |

What a great week!  Lots of lovely Quilts and Laundry Bagsdispatched to their new owners.  Oh, the fun they're going to have opening them.Thank you to all the generous contributors who havemade this possible.This year so far we have sent off 970...

Happy Mail 9th October 2019

by | Oct 9, 2019 |

Here's another batch of beautiful Blocks of the Month that havearrived in my mailbox over the past two weeks.What a wonderful, colourful mix of blocks. If you have some blocks that haven't been posted in the allocatedmonth, it's not too late to send them as some of...

We will be all dressed up with somewhere to go …..

by | Oct 9, 2019 |

Hi All, Today marks 8 years exactly since I started Aussie Heroes.  So much has happened in that time and so many quilts and laundry bags have headed off overseas and all over the place to our serving men and women.  Unfortunately I don't have time...