CityReach

City Reach Foundation, Gold Coast — Care, connected. A coordinated care arm for the Gold Coast: connecting people to the right help, from our own frontline initiatives to the agencies, services and partners hosting theirs.

City Reach Foundation, Gold Coast — Care, connected. A coordinated care arm for the Gold Coast.

City Reach Foundation is a registered Gold Coast charity. We coordinate frontline care across the city — running our own initiatives and connecting people to the agencies, services and partners hosting theirs. Everyone is welcome — whoever you are, whatever your story.

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Connecting the Hearts of the City.

Featured · Our next initiative

Care4Kids — Back to School 2027.

Backpacks, stationery, free haircuts and a warm welcome for Gold Coast kids and families heading into the new school year — Saturday 17 January 2027. Your donation puts school essentials into the hands of local families doing it tough.

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Gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible.

Care4Kids — Back to School Initiative. Saturday 17 January 2027. A City Reach initiative bringing practical support, hope and opportunity to kids and families across the Gold Coast.
Back to School 2027 · What we need

The supply list.

New items only, please. Every backpack we hand over on Saturday 17 January 2027 is packed from this list.

Give instead Drop off

Drop-off point: World Changers Church Gold Coast, Arundel. Gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible.

Pencils
Pens, black, blue and red
Rulers
Erasers
Markers
Notebooks
Water bottles
Lunch boxes
Pencil cases
Glue sticks
Highlighters
Pencil sharpeners
School backpacks, black or blue
Right now

Alongside Care4Kids above, here’s what else is in motion — part of a wider year-round mission of food relief, emergency support, family pathways, and the day-to-day work of connecting people to the agencies, services and partners across the city hosting their own.

Winter Initiative

Season one complete — thank you to every volunteer, partner and facilitator site. Returning July–September 2027.

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Winter Initiative returns — July to September 2027. Thank you, season one. A coordinated, community-based winter shelter response on the Gold Coast. A City Reach initiative.

Care & Community

Hands-on help across the Gold Coast, year-round — meals, moves, clean-ups and beach care.

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Care & Community — hands-on help across the Gold Coast. Meals, moves, clean-ups and beach care.
If you need help

Food, shelter, emergency support — start here.

You’re in the right place. Tell us what's going on; we’ll point you to the right door.

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About us

A broad, collaborative response — not a single-issue charity.

City Reach Foundation Ltd is a registered Australian charity on the Gold Coast. We coordinate frontline care across the city — running our own initiatives, and connecting people to the agencies, services and partners hosting theirs. The aim is the same either way: get people to the right door, faster. We serve people regardless of background or belief.

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Volunteers working together in a community setting

From this city, for this city

The Gold Coast is home. We want everyone here to feel that.

Care that meets people where they are — plain, practical, without fanfare.

The work we achieve

Frontline practical care, from crisis back to stability.

City Reach focuses on what we call "−10 to 0" — meeting people in the hardest moments and walking them back to a stable starting line. Across the year we run food relief, emergency support, domestic violence assistance, and seasonal initiatives like the Winter Initiative and Care4Kids.

Some programs are live; others activate as the Foundation matures. The full portfolio is on the Our Work page.

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Winter Initiative

The Winter Initiative returns July–September 2027.

Season 2 · Winter 2027

A coordinated overnight shelter response on the Gold Coast — participating churches as facilitator sites under a shared governance framework. Thank you to every volunteer, partner and facilitator site who made season one possible. Planning for next season is already underway, and there's a place for you in it.

Be part of next season
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Our next initiative

Care4Kids · Back to School.

A Gold Coast community day right before Term 1 begins — backpacks, stationery, free haircuts, and a warm welcome for kids and families heading into a new school year. Save the date: Saturday 17 January 2027.

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Year-round

Care & Community — hands-on help, right here.

Real people, real help, right here. Meals, moves, clean-ups, beach cleanups — and whatever the need may be. Hands-on volunteers turning up across the Gold Coast, week in, week out. Wherever a neighbour needs a hand, City Reach shows up.

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How to help

Three ways to stand with the city.

Whatever you bring — dollars, hours, or a shared mission — it strengthens a coordinated response for people on the Gold Coast.

Give

Your gift funds frontline practical care — food, hygiene, shelter, and the coordinated hub that holds the work together. Gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible.

Make a gift

Volunteer

Trained, rostered volunteers are the backbone of the Winter Initiative and the wider hub. Join a shift, a team, or a training cohort.

Join the team

Partner

Councils, agencies, churches and businesses — if you're already doing good work, we'd rather coordinate than compete. Let's talk.

Start a conversation