Urbanlife Community in Ringwood, Victoria | Community organisation

Urbanlife Community

Locality: Ringwood, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9879 8311

Address: 143 Maroondah Hwy 3134 Ringwood, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.urbanlife.org.au

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25.01.2022 Urban Life loves The Babes Project, and they need our help! The Babes Project recognises that every woman needs support, knowledge and an understanding ally to thrive in her motherhood. The Babes Project empowers new mamas to face the fears, tears and challenges, through pregnancy and the first crucial year of baby’s life. https://www.thebabesproject.com.au... If anyone is free to help them with some painting at their Croydon Admin Hub Tuesday or Wednesday next week it would be greatly appreciated. Details: The address is 9/428 Mt. Dandenong Rd, Kilsyth (opposite the shop front) on following days: Tuesday 1-4pm, Wednesday 9-11am and 1-4pm (and possibly Wednesday evening if needed) If you are available, please contact Helen Parker on 0417 305 584. Come on friends of L, let’s really get around The Babes!

24.01.2022 For those wanting to participate in Sunny McNeill’s Celebration of Life service online rather than in person, here is the link for Wednesday 2pm.

23.01.2022 For those who have been contributing support to the work of Leslie and Josie in Darwin, they were able to distribute some more of your clothes to those in need this week!

22.01.2022 Check In Process for Sunday Gatherings We have room for 80 people, so everyone is welcome. Scott Hawkins walks us through arriving at Urban Life for our first gathering this Sunday the 10th of January at The Urban.... Don't forget your masks and coffee! We can't wait to see you.

22.01.2022 Thank you brother Scott and the team, it means alot to the people of Oenpelli now that every day they can have fresh clothes. The people were very happy to receive some of the clothes.

21.01.2022 Hello, I hope you enjoy your food. I hope you have a good day or night. I hope you have a good life. Bye. ... PS. I hope you have a good life. Hello. I live in Victoria. #wintershelter #awesomevolunteers See more

20.01.2022 We are back! We hope you had a well deserved break over the Christmas and New year period and stayed safe! We are so excited to be getting together again this... year and welcome our community with a celebratory day at Mullum Mullum Indigenous gathering place! Come join us and make sure you RSVP (due to catering purposes) to [email protected] Details below:

19.01.2022 A wonderful Urban Christmas morning! Thankyou to all our volunteers and Merry Christmas to all our guests. #urbanlife #wintershelter #eastland

18.01.2022 All set for our Winter Shelter guests (and others) to come for their Christmas Hampers!

17.01.2022 As we prepare to gather together safely for the first time in 2021. We're remembering how wonderful it was to celebrate Advent with so many from our community with the Honest Advent series. Here's a quick walk through for those that didn't manage to make it along.

16.01.2022 This NAIDOC Week, Urban Life pays our respects to all First Nation People’s and Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. #alwayswasalwayswillbe www.naidoc.org.au

16.01.2022 The calm before all the activity. Thanks to all our friends that made our community lunch such a success today. @eastland for providing the space at the park.... @briochebyphilip_ringwood for the delicious croissants @gridlock_coffee for all the coffee @steeple.hospitality for the use of their trailer. @tonydib54 for cooking our wonderful meal. Other generous individual sponsors as well as @bendigo_ringwoodboroniabwater @bethelfunerals and all our volunteers. We love joining together with you all as the community to serve our community

14.01.2022 This Sunday the 24th of January we are accepting @commongraceaus 's invitation to reclaim Aboriginal Christian leader William Cooper’s original call to the Australian churches, back in 1938, to mark Aboriginal Sunday on the Sunday prior to January 26th as a day of solidarity with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian brothers and sisters from around these lands now called Australia. In solidarity we acknowledge the injustices Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander p...eoples have and continue to face. We join in the practice of truth telling, mourning and praying together to see change in the heart and hearts of this country. On Sunday we'll engage with Common Grace provided resources, hear from Aboriginal Christian leaders, participate in some truth telling, praying and reading scripture together while seeking God's heart for these lands and the original custodians of them. We'll also share some other Common Grace resources and events that invite us to listen, learn, pray and reflect on how we might be called to walk in solidarity and friendship seeking justice and reconciliation, alongside the First Nations People, of these lands now called Australia.

13.01.2022 We are asking for donations for our Christmas Hampers. These will be individually selected hampers so community members (from our Winter Shelter program) can create their own unique hamper based on their preference. We hope it will make their Christmas a little more special and full. It will be held on Monday 21st December. We will need: Drinks, lollies, long-life milk, toiletries, baked goods, gift boxes (empty), gifts for children, sparkling apple juice, Christmas pudding,... crackers Please contact Jay Sawyer on 0419 543 153 or message this page if you have any questions and to organise delivering donations to Urban Life - 143 Maroondah Hwy, Ringwood before the 14th December. Thank you for your generosity during this Christmas season.

12.01.2022 I was a cleaner at the Commonwealth Games when the Sierra Leone team left the Village to seek asylum. It opened my eyes to a number of Australian athletes with a refugee background. Who is/was your favourite refugee athlete? Joseph Deng (Australia's 800m record holder) ... Aliir Aliir (Port Power/Sydney Swans) Eva Kampe (Australia Long Jump) Peter Bol (Australian Olympian) Thon Maker (Australian Boomer/Cleveland Cavaliers) Abdoulie Asim (200m Australian Track & Field) Asif Sultani (Australian Karate) Awer Mabil (Australian Soccer) Watch out for the Refugee Olympic Team in Tokyo this year.

12.01.2022 World Kindness Day https://assets.randomactsofkindness.org//world-k/hands.jpg

11.01.2022 Such wonderful news!!

11.01.2022 During October, Winter Shelter distributed over 2000 meals to over 800 individuals and families, plus food parcels, non-perishables and toiletries. Thankyou to our volunteers, cooks, drivers, guests, #BoccaPizzeria, #RACVClub, #ViveCafe, #Eastland.

11.01.2022 It’s our last night of meals for 2020 at VIVE in Croydon. We’re back on 6 Jan after a well deserved break for our wonderful volunteers

10.01.2022 Today is Mabo Day - the day in 1992 when the Mabo No.2 case was handed down in the High Court of Australia and the day that effectively overturned the lie of Te...rra Nullius. We acknowledge the work of Uncle Eddie Koiki Mabo whom the day is named after. Gail Mabo, Eddie Mabo’s daughter, said, It was a shock when he won because most people didn’t think we would win. It was unheard of for a single person to change the whole history of a nation and for Dad to do that it was an awakening call to Australia to say ‘it’s time to right a wrong’ and embrace Indigenous people. These words remind us that it’s time to right many of the other wrongs and injustices still facing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. May we, all peoples of all cultures in these lands now called Australia, continue to take action for justice, Treaty and Truth Telling for Healing Country. #MaboDay #HealingCountry #TreatyNow #TruthTelling #NRW2021

10.01.2022 Hey you mob Join with us in celebrating the history of NAIDOC week in Victoria since 1961 when it was called the Conscious Calling Ball. Stories will be shared ...by a live panel of elders featuring Aunty Daphne Milward and special guests. As this event will be online registration is required. For further information on how to register please contact MMIGP on: (03) 9725 2166 or email: [email protected]

10.01.2022 I (Scott Hawkins) am currently undertaking some studies in Community Wellbeing for Maroondah in conjunction with The Wellbeing Lab and Maroondah City Council. This is a voluntary survey for anyone who lives/works/plays/worships in Maroondah, where you can get the wellbeing results for yourself, and we will receive an anonymous version with all personal identification removed. It uses a PERMAH Wellbeing framework which stands for Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, ...Meaning, Accomplishments and Health. If you have any regular(ish) connection with Maroondah, I would love to invite you to undertake this brief survey. I would also be very happy to debrief it with you (over coffee?) if you thought that would be helpful. https://community.permahsurvey.com/workplace.php

09.01.2022 Some have called it The Shadow Pandemic: during Covid-19, all types of violence against women and girls has intensified, particularly domestic violence and ab...use. We all need to take this seriously. #UNwomen have a list of 10 ways you can help end violence against women https://medium.com//take-action-10-ways-you-can-help-end-v #orangetheworld #violenceagainstwomenisacrime #prayerisaction

08.01.2022 The kids had a great time at our Urban Christmas! #urbanlife

08.01.2022 If you are popping into Eastland for some Christmas shopping, check out this wonderful display of poems by Aunty Irene Norman, a proud Wailwan woman and local E...lder from Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Place. Part of RingWORD, Maroondah’s annual celebration of the world of words, the display is in Shop 2089 on Level 2 near Uniqlo. The rest of the display including weaving by Aunty Irene will be presented in Realm from Friday. Eastland Maroondah City Council Mmigp Gathering Place #ringwood #artsinmaroondah #mmigp See more

06.01.2022 Congratulations Dylan Langley! We are proud to have you as one of our employees, but much more proud to call you friend!

04.01.2022 A lovely day in the backyard!

03.01.2022 Today is National Sorry Day, a day marked to remember the Stolen Generations. Sorry is an important ongoing step on our nation’s healing journey. As followers... of Jesus, may our love and our sorry be not only in word but in actions and in truth (1 John 3:18). We call for the recommendations of the Bringing Them Home Report (1997) to be implemented in full, particularly recommendations 3 and 4 which reference the need for reparations and compensation for survivors of the Stolen Generations and their families and communities. As per recommendation 3, Reparation should consist of: 1. acknowledgment and apology, 2. guarantees against repetition, 3. measures of restitution, 4. measures of rehabilitation, and 5. monetary compensation. Please join us tomorrow as we enter National Reconciliation Week where we will be led by our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Christian Leaders exploring Treaty and Truth Telling for Healing Country. Bring your hands, feet, mind, heart. Bring your listening, your learning, your love. #NationalSorryDay

03.01.2022 Maroondah Winter Shelter has received a Deakin Community Award 2020. Heartfelt thanks to our amazing volunteers who along with RACV Club Vic and Fareshare, provide meals and care to so many people in need. #maroondahcitycouncil #eastland #homelessness #volunteering #uniting