Welcome to In Good Faith Foundation’s first monthly newsletter!
Welcome to our first monthly newsletter! We’re excited to be establishing these emails as a regular way of sharing news updates, important information and other links with you.
Please feel free to email us at igff@igff.org.au if you would like a copy of this newsletter as a more accessible Pdf file. If you would like to share our sign-up form with anyone in your network who might be interested, the link is: http://eepurl.com/gFWhET
This month’s email contains information about:
- Our Comedy for a Cause fundraiser night, from 6pm on Friday 29 November
- The Melbourne Victims’ Collective Annual Public Witness Award for 2019
- Strategic follow up to Friday 23 August MVC meeting with Catholic Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli
- Marking the anniversary of the National Apology to Victims and Survivors of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse
- Recent Australian news coverage on religious institutional abuse
- An ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses Protest happening in Melbourne this week
IGFF has been as busy as ever over recent months, as we continue to provide advocacy and support for our wide client base, while also planning our end-of-year fundraiser
Comedy for a Cause
Keen for some laughs? Or looking for somewhere to hold office drinks?
In Good Faith Foundation is holding a Comedy for a Cause night at the Flemington & Kensington Bowling Club!
Buy your tickets for Friday 29 November now, to celebrate our good cause with comedians from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
Tickets can be purchased at https://comedyforacause.net/tc-events/igff/, and we will also be holding raffle and silent auction with over twenty prizes worth over $2000! There will be a barbecue and Von Crumb food truck, so make sure to book your place now!
Melbourne Victims’ Collective Public Witness Award
With the holiday season drawing near, we are excited to share our MVC Annual Public Witness Award recipient for 2019, as announced at the Friday 8 November MVC meeting: Paul Holdway, principal lawyer of Lewis Holdway Lawyers. Our thanks and congratulations again go out to Paul.
In 2010 Paul received the Law Institute of Victoria’s President’s Award for Access to Justice. He has extensive experience in acting for Survivors of religious institutional abuses, and hosting and chairing MVC meetings during the past 12 years.
We are truly grateful for his work with IGFF, as a former President of the Board and as a tirelessly empathetic Advocate.
Whether you are the Archbishop or a victim makes no difference to me. I don’t mind where you come from, it’s your actions and what’s just for everybody in the situation that counts.
I am extremely honoured to act for victims. I am honoured that they share their story with me and trust me with it.
For some people, it’s one of the first times they have told it and I think it is incredibly courageous for them to come forward to share that. – Paul Holdway
Strategic follow up to Friday 23 August MVC meeting with Catholic Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli
At the 8th of November MVC meeting, our CEO Clare Leaney gave the following presentation about strategic follow up with Melbourne Catholic Archbishop Comensoli on the Collective’s observations and recommendations for Survivor-centric models of care and support.
For a Pdf version of the full presentation, or any other information about the MVC meeting, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at igff@igff.org.au or call (03) 9940 1533.
