News & Updates

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Weekly Dispatch 22nd August 2025

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...

Grati-Wednesday 20th August 2025

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,...

Request List 19 August 2025

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...

Weekly Dispatch 15th August 2025

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...

Grati-Wednesday 13th August 2025

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....

Request List 12 August 25

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...

Weekly Dispatch 8th August 2025

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...

Grati-Tuesday 5th August 2025

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...

Request List 4 August 25

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...

Weekly Dispatch 1st August 2025

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...

Quilts for HMAS Sydney…..

The lovely crew from HMAS Sydney put up a great post with photos of some of the quilts they have received recently with a lovely message. Thank you to Aussie Hero Quilts (and Laundry Bags) for their wonderful delivery of quilts for the crew. We will cherish them...

Grati-Tuesday 29th July 2025

Happy Tuesday Friends! Welcome to the last blog for July.   On the downward slope to the end of the year. I bet it will be no time at all and we are counting down till Jolly Old Santa visits!!   Another deluge of thank you's again this week from far and wide...

Grati-Wednesday 20th March 2019

Lots of lovely messages this week. Enjoy reading them.Good Morning Sue.Just a quick line to say a big thank you for the lovely washing bag you made for me.My Grand Father served during the Great War, and to receive a Remembrance Day themed washing bag during the...

Aussie Hero Quilts – Requests 18th March 2019

Hi allIt’s been a busy week at AHQ HQ with Jan-Maree out of action - requests coming in and being allocated, and all the emails to deal with. Thank you all for your support and encouragement.Please keep on signing off all emails with your first and last name to make...

Weekly Dispatches 14 March 2019

Greetings to all Aussie Hero Supporters, Contributors and RecipientsThis week, our amazing leader, Jan-Maree Ball is over-seeing all things AHQ fromher hospital bed as she begins the journey with her new knees.We all wish her well and are sending her positive thoughts...

THE AFTERNOON UPDATE FROM JAN-MAREE

The physios came again this afternoon and I managed to get myself out of bed and standing with them holding the frame.  I walked to the door and back about 5 or 6 mts each way.  I then got myself back on the bed and managed to get the left leg,...

THE MORNING UPDATE FROM JAN-MAREE

From David...Just wanted to provide another update on Jan-Maree.   She had a rough night last night due to the pain – and the nurses were a little slow in escalating to the surgeon.  Finally got some stronger pain medication around midnight and got some...

Grati-Wednesday 13 March 19

Now that our fearless leader Jan-Maree Ball has had her double knee replacement surgery, I'm sure we're all thinking of her, wishing her well and cheering her on as she embarks on her rehab. journey.She's still very much steering the AHQ ship from her...