International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Saturday March 27th
March 18, 2021
“We must be the change that we wish to see in the world”
Tag: Inner West Council
A New Page
March 16, 2021
Please a look at the new Addison Road Community Organisation page as it appears in the latest issue of City Hub Sydney. We talk about our upcoming event to mark the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, next Sunday, March 21st from 2-6pm at Addi Road in Marrickville.
Poetry in the Streets
January 28, 2021
Sara M. Saleh is the very recent winner of the prestigious 2021 Peter Porter Poetry Prize. She supports our new #RACISMNOTWELCOME street sign campaign and relates it to her life and poetry.
Food Security, Social Justice and Donna Summer
January 21, 2021
Towards the end of 2020 our Food Pantry Manager, Damien Moore, reckoned he’d been working so hard the time had come to drag him away “in a straitjacket singing that Donna Summer song, ‘Enough is Enough (I can’t go on no more!)’. I mean, it has been a pretty full-on year.”
A Month of Waste-Free Meals
November 27, 2020
Celia shops very regularly at Addi Road Food Pantry Marrickville. She recently shared her recipes for a month of beautiful meals created from the rescued food she bought here.
Sonic Truth – Addi Road opens the vault and releases a music festival
November 26, 2020
Open the Vaults is the first music event of its kind in Sydney after a very hard year when so much has shut down and the arts and entertainment industries have been in crisis. It’s a calling-together of musical tribes and a celebration of community.
Sustaining Stories
November 13, 2020
It’s a big day out in Granville for Addison Road Community Organisation. The Keep Australia Beautiful NSW Sustainable Cities Awards for 2020 are under way – and we are in the running for recognition.
Good News All Round!
September 9, 2020
Mayor Darcy Byrne’s announcement this morning that the Inner West Council “has decided to convert the Summer Hill depot into a reuse centre for non-government-organisations like Reverse Garbage and The Bower Reuse & Repair Centre” is welcome news for us all.
Life During Wartime
April 2, 2020
“The people I work with are already socially isolated. They can handle that, But they can’t handle the panic happening out there.”
Addi Road’s Emergency Food Preparedness and Response Centre
March 27, 2020
Gumbramorra Hall has been re-purposed as a production and distribution centre, where our wonderful staff and volunteers are preparing emergency food hampers. These hampers will be given to NGOs and charity groups to deliver to their most vulnerable and isolated community members and to people who are unable to visit and shop at the Addi Road Food Pantry.