Recent News | Addison Road Community Organisation

19 October 2024 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice, Sustainability

Love Is…

Each week Addi Road runs its Wednesday Night Lights to offer free sit-down meals with a host of wraparound services. We're grateful to our partners and everyone who comes along to make the night what it is.

Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown and its monthly Cook-up, September 2024

12 October 2024 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice, Sustainability

Bringing the Community Together

Every month at Common Ground in Camperdown, Addi Road’s Food Pantry Cook-up brings the community together for a day filled with good food, warm company, and much-needed support.

18 September 2024 / Arts & Culture, Human rights, Social Justice

Home Spirit

Each year on 17 September it is Australian Citizenship Day. Addi Road Community Organisation was honoured to welcome Tony Burke MP and over 200 people to take part in their citizenship ceremony in Sydney today – as well as celebrate the 75th anniversary of the ceremony as a vital part of Australian life.

19 July 2024 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice, Sustainability

Eaten Away

Addi Road is on the frontlines of food relief, cost-of-living pressures and ‘the hunger monopoly’. This is a little of what we do and what we struggle with as the pressures continue to intensify.

18 July 2024 / Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice

Birthday Lights

Our 1st Anniversary for Wednesday Night Lights. Kicking off last winter, we’ve lit a little fire that has kept the community warm and connected for the last year – and all of us at Addi Road equally inspired.

3 July 2024 / Human rights, Social Justice

Ceremony

All things towards a great adventure. All things for and with our friends, the community we all share. Addi Road hit the highway to Canberra on Friday to be at the ceremony that saw Samantha Joy Mostyn sworn in as the 28th Governor-General of Australia.

21 June 2024 / Arts & Culture, Human rights, Social Justice

Food and Music for Palestine with David Rovics – Bearing Witness World Tour

David Rovics is one of the great figures of modern folk and protest music. On Friday 5 July from 6-10pm, David Rovics will be our very special guest (as part of his Bearing Witness World Tour) at ‘Food and Music for Palestine’.

20 June 2024 / Food Relief, Social Justice, Sustainability

The Quiet Life

All quiet on the Inner West front this Sunday morning. By tomorrow Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville and our sister store cum food pantry in Camperdown will be stocked and ready for another week.

20 June 2024 / Food Relief, Social Justice

A Sunday Morning at Addi Road

Here's a little snapshot of Addi Road on a Sunday morning just a few weeks ago. So many people who use the centre and come to visit. A true community hub.

8 May 2024 / Arts & Culture, Food Relief, Human rights, Social Justice

Marrickville Angels

At Wednesday Night Lights many good spirits gather. Brian is one of those people whose life gets ever-longer and more interesting the more you stand around talking to him. A soft and happy presence, he radiates good will wherever he goes.