2013 – Our Journey Continues

  In 2012 we started off the year by making a new years resolution to challenge ourselves and do something special for our community. This resolution resulted in the development of 300 Blankets. The decision and direction of the volunteer initiative was to drive ourselves to do something new and

Happy New Year

We started 2012 with a new years resolution to do something positive for our community. What started off as a simple gesture among friends, grew into an initiative that has made a measurable change. This year we donated 1735 blankets to people experiencing homelessness in Victoria. This would not have

Celebrating Christmas with Compeer

On the 8th of December 2012, 300 Blankets was invited to help celebrate Christmas with Compeer. Our team of volunteers arrived early with our musical performers: Sinead, Joanna and Grahame, setting up the sound system, preparing the awesome Polaroid camera and doing the final wrapping of presents. It wasn’t long

300 Blankets sharing the warmth of friendship at Christmas

This year the management team at 300 Blankets is volunteering to help organise a Christmas party for the volunteers and companions of the Compeer program. Compeer is a friendship building  buddy program matching volunteers with a companion who is receiving mental health treatment. They meet weekly to chat about life,

Our Journey Thus Far

As we pass the midway point of the coldest months of the year, I want take a moment to reflect on 300 Blankets first year in operation. The 300 Blankets volunteer initiative begun at the start of the year as we reflected on what mattered most to us, what we

Volunteering with the Vinnies soup vans

On the 20th of June the 300 Blankets team were invited on a special St Vincent de Paul soup van run. On the night, Vinnies organised a special van to drive our team on their nightly soup run. Before we set off, the President of the St Vincent de Paul

StreetCount 2012

Over the past 4 years the city of Melbourne has been gaining information about people sleeping rough through the StreetCount initiative. StreetCount involves around 140 volunteers wanting to help the homeless community through survey people sleeping rough on the street.  The information gained from doing this activity allows the City

Brains for Blankets 2012 raises 856 blankets!!!

The 300 Blankets team would like to thank everyone who came and supported the Brains for Blankets trivia night on the 2nd of June 2012. On the night, 187 people in 20 teams competed in the sold out event to win amazing prizes generously donated by friends and supporters of

Brains On!

With one week to go till Brains for Blankets, the team has been working long into the night to prepare for what will be an awesome trivia night.  We are in the process of preparing wonderful prizes generously donated by friends of 300 Blankets.  We can’t wait for next Saturday

300 Blankets presents Brains for Blankets

300 Blankets is proud to announce our second fundraising event for 2012, Brains for Blankets. Brains for Blankets is a trivia and games night to be held at Sofias Pizza House in Camberwell. The events team at 300 Blankets have lined up some awesome questions to test your wits, great