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300 Blankets presents Music for Blankets 2013
We kicked off the fundraising events in 2013 with a huge bang at Music for Blankets at Fashion Lounge. On the 23rd of March, the beautiful Melbourne afternoon was blaring with the awesome sounds of Melbourne musicians. Special guest, KrysRAW started the afternoon off in his DJ style of splicing crowd pleasing hits. The Keiths! […]
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The St Vincent de Paul soup vans
In 2012, over 1500 of the blankets raised by 300 Blankets were donated to the St Vincent de Paul soup vans. These blankets have been given out on cold nights to people who need the warmth most. Our blankets have reached people from the Melbourne CBD to people in country Victoria. Over the past few […]
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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 something for the greater good […]
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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 been achieved without the great […]
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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 wanted to do for ourselves […]
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300 Blankets proudly supporting St Vincent de Paul Society
The journey of 300 Blankets began with a meeting with Brian, a manager of a soup van for St Vincent de Paul. It was in the discussion with Brian that we learnt that the Vinnies soup vans operate every night of the year to support and feed the disadvantaged. On any given night, one soup […]
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Who 300 Blankets is helping
Hi friends, firstly I’d like to thank you all for your show of support. The team at 300 Blankets and I are so excited about the awareness and engagement we’re building about homelessness in our community and our fundraising initiatives. Recently, I was asked by a friend, “How do people become homeless? Do we know […]
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Our work thus far.
It is our ‘soft’ launch tonight. Feeling rather anxious, (a bit stressed) but no doubt we are all very incredibly excited! Who would of known all of this all started after an almost wasted half of a Sunday, after Waz and I decided on a spontaneous brunch catch up. ‘Soo..what’s your new years resolution?’ opened up […]
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300 Blankets – Pre Launch Meeting
The 300 Blankets management team sat down for the final meeting before our official launch today. Sitting in the back of the library as we approached the 4th hour mark of the meeting, we thought to ourselves that we truly have the best, most dedicated management team. It was a Saturday, the weather was a […]
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300 Blankets proudly supports Hanover
After visiting Hanover several times, 300 Blankets is proud to announce our support of this wonderful organisation. The fantastic staff at the homeless organisation has provided 300 Blankets with extensive insight the current homeless situation in Melbourne and Australia. We are also in talks with the organisation to have a speaker from Hanover to present […]
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