Wednesday arvo Warren and I met with Lou, the vice-chairperson of Yarra Community Housing. There was some good conversation around how well rooming houses CAN be run. I imagine that this will be start of on on-going conversation between Servants and Yarra.
There have been one or two one off types of donations hitting our account in the last few weeks – including one from the City of Banyule. Sometimes I wonder how it is that people have heard about us.
Wednesday night this week Carrical hosted a Leadership Victoria dinner for their Folio participants. The evening was made all the more special with 2 resos presenting their stories and thoughts to the guests – one doing this for the first time. Both resos spoke brilliantly. One of Donald’s colleagues was a part of the group – which meant that I was my very best behavior!! I found some of the questions in the q & a part to be particularly challenging – in a very good way! It was a typical SCH/LV evening – wonderful.
Madeline returned to work today having been on holiday for nearly 3 weeks.
This morning I met with a representative from Women’s Housing Ltd (WHL) to ask for feedback on Servants’ thinking in regards to women’s only housing. It was a very positive meeting with the general view of WHL that our model should prove highly successful for a women’s only facility. It was a very encouraging meeting.
