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GIVIT helps thousands of Australians in need every year by providing items, services and vouchers. GIVIT helps people impacted by natural disasters, domestic and family violence or homelessness, First Nations Australians, people living with disability or mental ill-health, and much more.

 

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To access donated items or services through GIVIT, please connect with a support organisation registered with GIVIT that can assess your needs and provide assistance. This organisation can then place a request on GIVIT on your behalf. Click here for more information on how to get support through GIVIT.

To find relevant organisations in your area, simply use the search fields below. Support organisations working with GIVIT that require anonymity will not be listed below.

In addition to the search function below, at the bottom of this page is a list of organisations and services that may be able to support you, depending on what you're experiencing. This includes disaster and emergency recovery support.

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Royal Flying Doctor Service South Eastern Section - Broken Hill

The mission of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) South Eastern Section is to deliver improved heath outcomes to remote, rural and regional communities across South Eastern Australia.

Started 90 years ago, the RFDS has grown to become the most comprehensive aeromedical service in the world, with flying doctors, nurses, specialists and allied health professionals taking essential health care services to country communities. Our multidisciplinary teams provide services from emergency retrievals to telehealth consultations, patient transfers and clinics (GP, mental health, dental health, and child and maternal health). They also deliver health education, illness prevention and treatment.

The communities we serve are disadvantaged by distance and socioeconomic factors which impact upon their access to general, specialist and emergency healthcare, and often the RFDS is the sole provider of health services within a community.

Broken Hill NSW 2880

W flyingdoctor.org.au/nswact/

Royal Flying Doctors Service - South Eastern Section - Dubbo

The RFDS works to overcome this, providing a comprehensive range of health services to these communities.

Dubbo NSW 2830

W flyingdoctor.org.au/contact/

Royal Flying Doctors South Eastern Section - Lightning Ridge

The RFDS is well known throughout rural and remote parts of Australia for offering medical services over vast distances. In addition to the well known retrieval and medical services the RFDS also has a team of Mental Health and Alcohol and Drug clinicians that service the Far Western and Western NSW as well as parts of remote Western QLD and across the boarder into South Australia. The clinicians and wellbeing team aim to improve the mental health of our remote communities that ordinarily do not have access to face to face counselling or wellbeing services.

Royal Life Saving WA

Royal Life Saving WA is Western Australia's leading aquatic safety educator. We're a non-profit, community service organisation based in Western Australia that conducts training programs in water safety, lifesaving, resuscitation, first aid, swimming instructing and pool lifeguarding.

Various locations around Australia

T +61 8) 9383 8200

W royallifesavingwa.com.au/

Royal Melbourne Hospital – Mental Health Services

The Royal Melbourne Hospital - Mental Health Services is part of Melbourne Health and provides holistic mental health support within an inpatient, community and rehabilitation residency environments.

Staffed with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure all aspects of care are attended to comprehensively.

Royals Juniors Rugby Union

Royals Juniors Rugby Union provides equity of opportunity to local kids aged 5-18 to play Rugby Union. We engage the local community through inclusive practices and build our kids resilience and confidence through sport. We have over 150 families of young children in our remit and we look to come together as a community to assist in any hardship our families face. We utilise a sports chaplancy and other programs to support the mental health of our kids and parents, many of whom have families that have split. We have people from all demographics and cultures and we do our best to encourage all the kids and families to be the best they can be and to reach out when they need a hand.

Various locations around Australia

T 0433860009

E president@royalsjuniors.com.au

W royalsjuniors.com.au/

RSL Queensland

Support veterans and families to access multidisciplinary supports from psychology and social connection to employment, homelessness and compensation advocacy.

RSLA (QLD) Toowong Sub-Branch

We provide services and support for those who are serving or who have served in the Australian Defence Forces and their dependents.

Ruah Community Services - Cockburn

Mental Health and Wellness team providing psychosocial support to individuals living in the community facing mental health challenges.

Cockburn Central WA 6164

W ruah.org.au/

Ruah Community Services - Geraldton

We offer psycho social recovery for individuals who are living with a severe and persistent mental health diagnosis and require community support.
We also provide short term respite accommodation for those who are struggling with their mental health or are at risk of/or are homeless. We support people to access longer term accommodation, it is these people who often need access to furniture and white goods to successfully live independent and fulfilling lives.

Geraldton WA 6530

W ruah.org.au/

Ruah Community Services - Perth

Today, Ruah is a independent, not-for-profit community service. In the spirit of our founders, we are still taking bold strides to end poverty and social disadvantage.

Ruah operates more than 20 different programs that combine to provide wraparound support for our clients. Service delivery is integrated across our core focus areas helping people deal with the trauma of homelessness, family violence and chronic mental illness. We also provide legal advice, support, and advocacy in the areas of mental health law, care and protection, family and domestic law and homelessness.

Our hard-working and committed team of 260 staff is based across 12 locations in Perth, Geraldton and Albany They have a deep understanding and empathy, often based on their own lived experience, of the challenges life can throw at us, the hard road to recovery, and what it takes to build a new future.

West Perth WA 6005

T 13 7824

E connecting@ruah.org.au

W ruah.org.au/

Ruah Stronger Ground North

Provides psychosocial supports to people in the Perth metro area , experiencing severe and persistent mental illness.
Ruah assists some of our most vulnerable people in the community around their mental health , tenancy support , family support and often budgeting and connection for people experiencing poverty.

Stirling WA 6021

T 137824

E connecting@ruah.org.au

W ruah.org.au/

Rural Adversity Mental Health Program

The Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) is a major project of the Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH). RAMHP has 19 Coordinators based across regional, rural and remote NSW who inform, educate and connect individuals, communities and workplaces with appropriate services and programs.

Wagga Wagga NSW 2650

T 0263638444

E ramph@newcastle.edu.au

W ramhp.com.au

Rural Aid Ltd

Rural Aid was founded in 2015 to provide a holistic support program to rural Australia. The starting point for the charity was the success of the Buy a Bale campaign, which to date has received over $4.5 million in donations and distributed this through fodder, hampers and more. We understand the needs of our primary producers and aim to lend a helping hand when times are tough.

Indooroopilly QLD 4068

W ruralaid.org.au/

Rural City of Wangaratta

Council

Rural Financial Counselling Service - Narrabri

Rural Financial Counselling in Narrabri & Coonabarabran as well as providing items for those who need them.

Casino NSW 2470

W rfcsnr.org.au/

Rural Financial Counselling Service North Queensland

The Rural Financial Counselling North Queensland is an organisation funded by the Australian Government and Queensland Government to deliver the Rural Financial Counselling Service program. Counsellor if you are in need of assistance to:

help clients identify financial and business options
help clients negotiate with their lenders
help clients develop an action plan
support clients who are accessing the Farm Household Allowance (FHA)
give clients information about government and other assistance schemes
refer clients to accountants, agricultural advisers and educational services
refer clients to Centrelink and to professionals for succession planning, family mediation and personal, emotional and social counselling.

Longreach QLD 4730

W rfcsnq.com.au/

Rural Financial Counselling Service Southern Queensland - Biggenden

Rural Financial Counselling Service works with farmers and graziers experiencing financial hardship. Often we are negotiating with banks and work with people who are suffering extreme financial hardship. Often hardship is from extreme weather conditions like drought flood etc.

Coalstoun Lakes QLD 4621

W rfcssq.org.au

Rural Financial Counselling Service Southern Queensland - Bundaberg

Rural Solutions Queensland Inc (RSQ) is a charitable, non-profit organisation dedicated to supporting the sustainability of rural and regional communities. Best known for the delivery of the Rural Financial Counselling Service (RFCS) across Southern Queensland, RSQ also delivers the Small Business Financial Counselling Service (SBFCS) and other support programs across the region. The RFCS program has been consecutively delivered by RSQ since 2006

Bundaberg QLD 4670

W rfcssq.org.au/

Rural Financial Counselling Service Southern Queensland - Chinchilla/Miles

Provide free, confidential, impartial, independent assistance to help eligible rural, small and medium business clients manage and adjust to volatilities and changes within their business environment.

Roma QLD 4455

T 0746225500

W rfcssq.org.au

Rural Financial Counselling Service Southern Queensland - Goondiwindi

Free financial counselling for primary producers and small business owners in Southern Queensland.
FREE - IMPARTIAL - CONFIDENTIAL - MOBILE

Goondiwindi QLD 4390

W rfcssq.org.au/

Rural Financial Counselling Service Southern Queensland - Toowoomba

Through the Rural Financial Counselling Service we provide free services to assist in relieving poverty and hardship in both farming and rural small business families facing financial difficulties

Toowoomba QLD 4350

W rfcssq.org.au/

Rural Financial Counselling Service Southern Queensland - Warwick

The RFCS provides free financial counselling to farmers, fishing enterprises, forestry growers and harvesters, and small related businesses experiencing, or at risk of, financial hardship.

Rural financial counsellors are qualified professionals. They will listen to your problems, look at your situation as a whole and provide support unique to you.

They will help you to develop an action plan and take the necessary steps to get you out of financial difficulty. They will also help you to build your financial knowledge, skills and resilience so you can confidently manage potential challenges in the future.

Rural Financial Counselling Services Southern Queensland Charleville

Provide free financial counselling services to primary producers and small business in Southern QLD

Charleville QLD 4470

T 0746625500

E admin@rfcssq.org.au

W rfcssq.org.au

Rural Outreach & Support Service

Rural Outreach & Support Service strives to provide a safe, secure supportive environment for men, women, families and youth to undertake free life skills workshops, as well as receive support advocacy, referral and advice.
Individual consultations or life skills workshops to provide the most appropriate assistance.
During these unprecedented times of Drought and Fire we have been supporting many people that we would not normally see and have been providing drought and fire relief, information and referral. Now COVID-19 has added yet another dynamic.
We run support groups for Men, Women and LGBTIQ participants.
Also offering Domestic Violence, Apprehended Violence Order Education, Housing Information, Relationship, Budget, Anger Management and Well-Being supports.
Rural Outreach non-discriminatory all men, youth, women and children are eligible to use the service regardless of cultural background, fluency of English, religious or cultural beliefs, or disability.

Frequently asked questions

Dedicated support services

In addition to the search function above that allows you to identify relevant organisations near you, listed below are a range of organisations, services and government resources that may be able to help you.

Some of these organisations may not be registered with GIVIT. We’ve compiled the list below to ensure you get relevant and tailored support for your situation, regardless of whether that includes donated items and services through GIVIT.

You can use the search function above to check if an organisation listed below is registered with GIVIT.

If your life is in danger, call Triple Zero 000 for emergency assistance.

 

Disaster and emergency recovery

If a natural disaster or emergency event has impacted you, please visit your state or territory government’s disaster support page to see what assistance is available, including disaster payments, grants and financial aid.

Queensland Government

Victoria Government

New South Wales Government

Western Australia Government

South Australia Government

Northern Territory Government

Tasmania Government

Australian Capital Territory Government

You can also access information via national resources - National Emergency Management Authority and Services Australia.

 

Domestic and family violence

If your life is in danger, call Triple Zero 000 for emergency assistance.

If you have experienced or are at risk of family and domestic violence and/or sexual assault, contact the National Sexual Assault, Family & Domestic Violence Counselling Line on 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732). 1800 RESPECT is also contactable via text, online chat or video call and is available 24 hours.

 

Financial hardship

The National Debt Helpine provides free, independent and confidential financial counselling via phone or live chat, Monday to Friday. You can call them on 1800 007 007.

Mob Strong Debt Helpline is a free advice service about money matters for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. They can be contacted on 1800 808 488, Monday to Friday.

 

Homelessness

If you’re experiencing or at risk of homelessness, you can find homeless shelters near you by searching on the Ask Izzy website.

Your state or territory government can also help. Listed below are the options by state or territory.

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

 

Mental health, depression or anxiety

If you or someone else’s life is in danger, call Triple Zero 000.

You can access 24/7 crisis support by calling Lifeline on 13 11 14. You can also contact Lifeline via text or online chat.

You can talk to a counsellor 24/7 through Beyond Blue. You can also access brief counselling with Beyond Blue via online chat.

If you’re a young person aged 12-25, you can talk to a trained clinician, you can contact Headspace 7 days a week between 9am and 1pm by calling 1800 650 890 or via online chat.

 

First Nations Australians

If you’re a First Nations Australian and you are going through a tough time, you can call 13YARN (13 92 76) to talk with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander crisis supporter.

 

Children or young people experiencing hardship

Children and young people aged 5 – 25 can access support through Kids Helpline by calling 1800 55 1800 or through online chat 24/7.

 

People living with disability

The Disability Gateway is an Australian Government service to help people with disability, their family, friends and carers find the support they need. They can be contacted on 1800 643 787, Monday to Friday.

 

Refugees and asylum seekers

If you’re a refugee or asylum seeker and you need help, you can contact the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on 03 9326 6066 Monday to Friday for support.

 

People struggling with addiction

The National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is a 24/7 service that provides free and confidential advice about alcohol and other drugs. You can call them on 1800 250 015.

Alternatively, Alcohol & Drug Counselling Online offers 24/7 online chat counselling.

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