Premium Content Comfort Kitchen will return to the Hervey Bay Community Centre, with an important difference. Sit-down meals are back on from Wednesday, April 14 and will be combined with a new community services hub, providing advice, connection and referrals to people in need. The idea for the hub came from Ciaran Higgins, homelessness outreach worker at Community Housing Limited. Ms Higgins has worked tirelessly in recent months to connect people affected by the ongoing housing crisis with support services. Services will include tenancy and homelessness advice, mental health support and medical consultation and treatment. Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre operations manager, Christian Berechree, said it had been a bumpy road for Comfort Kitchen, with the ongoing COVID-19 crisis making things uncertain.
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Subscriber only Last year, the Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre celebrated the year of kindness to promote greater care for each other in the community. The timing couldn t have been better as the region, alongside the rest of the world, battled upheaval as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. This year the team at the centre will take on a whole new focus, introducing 2021 at the year of fun. Throughout 2020, a team of volunteers, known as the Kindness Crew, delivered a number of community activities such as the Kindness Mural at the front of the community centre, Kindness Doors with positive messaging placed in our schools and local businesses and as a finale the World Kindness Day Art Festival in November.