For Leslie Meyer, like others with acquired brain injury in the Blacktown area, Anglicare’s Westlink Head Injury Recreation & Leisure Service (Whirls) has been a Godsend.

5,000 struggling Sydney families will have their fill of food and hope this Christmas, thanks to Kevin Alexander and his army of Anglicare volunteers.

Anglicare Campbelltown will be turning away more than 20 people a day in the lead up to Christmas as a capacity report reveals the welfare organisation is struggling to meet the increased need this festive season.

Mr Kirikori's life fell apart when the sea swept into his home on 26 December 2004 killing his daughter and destroying their small Indian village of Keela Manakudi.

In 1998 Donna and David Ballard and their children were homeless and stretched for cash. They turned to Anglicare’s street outreach centre in Parramatta, which helped them to budget, find a place to stay and gave them counselling.

Chronic housing shortage in Sydney linked to youth mental illness

It’s hard to win over an entire community but this is what some Sydney Anglican churches are doing, one house at a time.