We have joined the 2024 Canberra Day Appeal to raise much needed funds for our charity!

This year, the Canberra Day Appeal’s 48-hour Hands Up for Canberra Giving Day begins on Wednesday, March 6. So please, give where you live and donate here during the 48h Giving Day donation drive.

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Every $1 you donate will become $2 with matched funding available for the first $2,500 we fundraise ($5,000 total)

Please help us reach our goal #HandsUp4CBR

Raised so far

$21,190

Our goal

$10,000

** Tally above includes matched funding and donations. Matched funds have been provided by Hands Across Canberra and the Chief Minister's Charitable Fund.

About Us

Canberra Refugee Support (CRS) connects volunteers with asylum seekers and refugees in the Australian Capital Territory. CRS volunteers provide 'good neighbour support', assisting asylum seekers and refugees to be engaged, independent and included in the Canberra community as soon as possible. At the heart of our work is human connection: being good neighbours, making people welcome and building communities with people looking for a safe place.

CRS is not-for-profit organisation operated by volunteers. CRS members are passionate advocates for improving the lives of refugees and asylum seekers in the Canberra community. We are proud to have assisted refugees and asylum seekers for more than 20 years. 


How your donation will help

Every dollar donated to Canberra Refugee Support (CRS) will go directly to assisting refugees and asylum seekers to meet their basic needs and build a new life in Canberra.

CRS works closely with the people we support and provide assistance tailored to the individual or family and their particular needs. Your donation could help:

  • families avoid homelessness by assisting to meet housing costs
  • keep families warm over the cold winter months by assisting with heating costs 
  • people to access much need urgent medical care
  • a child to participate in sport 
  • provide educational awards to students for education and training costs
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A big thank you to our Supporters

A Crace Christian couple

$2.82k

Board on Board Prize

Congrats!

$500

Anonymous

$32

Michael Crowe

Well done CRS on assisting those to transition from refugees to become valuable members of the ACT.

$105

Kaye O'Hara

$208

Sue Elliott

$106

Anonymous

$500

Anonymous

$500

Lyn Rainforest

$106

Anonymous

$106

Colin Campbell

$208

Elizabeth Hall

$106

Judith Robinson

$317

Helen Cory

A small organisation with a huge heart.

$104

Philippa Russell-Brown

$520

Annalisa Koeman

$21

John Cockburn

$106

Anonymous

$26

Anonymous

Thank you Canberra Refugee Society for helping us to realise how lucky we are to be able to give to people with needs far greater than ours.

$105

Anonymous

$106

Anonymous

$105

Suzanne Northcott

$106

Ruth Lin

$1,000

morna whiting

Thank you CRS team for all that you do in our community to welcome and settle others into Canberra.

$315

Anonymous

$106

Patricia Anne Gardner

$520

Wendy Armstrong

$53

Janet Hope

$106

Jade Ho

$211

Richard C

Wonderful cause!

$156

Louise Whitty

$106

Jennifer Turini

$106

Lauren Honcope

CRS does an amazing job with wonderul volunteers. Thank you to them all.

$317

Michael and Gillian Colledge

We really enjoy being part of this worthwhile group.

$520

Wayne Ryan

$208

Charles Body

$317

Anonymous

$420

Anne Reese

Best wishes to Canberra Refugee Support who already do an amazing job. I also want to endorse the excellent Education Scholarships program that you provide to students.

$520

Wendy Jarvie

$106

Denise Rawling

$210

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