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Um, so we are at the vine Wellington tent. So that's Saint Vincent de Paul society. Wellington. Um, we're here just promoting our social services, Um, so that all of our communities know that they can come to us for help. Um, so that covers our social work, uh, food, bank, visitations, and pregnancy assistance. And we also have our new project RESO. So that's up cycling all of our textile waste from shops and turning them into new products. So we're making rainbow bunting here at the moment. [00:00:30] Yeah, And so you do volunteer work at Vinnie's? Yes. Um, I myself am the coms and marketing manager. Um, but we have a huge volunteer, um, support group, so Yeah. So tell me about some of the programmes that that that Vinny's office? Yep. Um, so we provide our social worker. She can't be here today, so we have a mannequin stand in for her. Um, but she does a lot of advocacy. Um, a lot of, uh, budgeting advice. Um, she'll come with you to whether [00:01:00] it's immigration wins housing, um, to court. She'll come in and help support you through those, um, situations. Um she also offers home support. So that's providing furniture, Um, clothing, utensils, Um, if you need it. Yeah, whatever you need. She's there to support you, and then we have our food bank. So that's providing, um, family and single food parcels. So that's for immediate assistance or long term support. And then we've got our pregnancy assistant. [00:01:30] So that's for new moms, um, supporting them and their families. Providing baby clothing, reusable nappies, maternity clothes. Um, just any support in that area? Um, and then here we've got reso. So that's our new big project. Um, so that's, uh, based on our Kilburn shop. And, um, we've got a whole sewing department there creating new products out of all of our textile wastes. Um, because we have spent a lot of money on dumping textiles that we can't sell in our shop. So we're trying to [00:02:00] repurpose them now for for good. So does have, like, specific rainbow L GB IQ, um, policies. Um, no, we just pretty much all of our services are open to everyone and anyone. Um, yeah. So that's we don't have anything specifically written into our policies. Um, our team going forward do want to push more of that for it to become formalised, but yeah, it's just showing that our services are for everyone. Um, there is a church [00:02:30] element to some of this, so we want to make sure that that's not a barrier for people coming to us. Um, it is a free judgement. Uh, non judgmental, Um, confidential service. So, um, we just want to know that you want people to know that they can come to us. Um, yeah. Is this the first time that Vinny has been at out in the park? Yes. Yes, it is. Um, we as a team just thought it was really important. Um, that this part of the community know that they can come to us. Um, a lot of our clients do [00:03:00] come from this community, so we we support them, and we want to make sure that everyone else knows that, too. So what are some of the biggest issues that you have kind of come across with, um, rainbow alg by our community members? Um, I think it's just that they face themselves in daily life. Um, yeah, I think it's that because there's yeah, the barriers that they're facing financially. Maybe, um, finding homes or just dealing with some of the or like some of the organisations like wins, [00:03:30] and that if there's any barriers that they're facing, we want to be there to back them up and make sure that they get what they deserve. And they're entitled to what they what they need. Um, so we're just a support service, really? To make sure that they get what they need, Yeah.
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