Many South Australian community and government services close or operate on a limited basis over the Christmas - New Year period. To help service providers who are looking for organisations that provide a meal for isolated or disadvantaged people on Christmas Day, or emergency relief services between Christmas 2012 and New Year 2013, Connecting Up is compiling a list of services that are available at that time.

Please contact us if you have information to add to this listing.

Please help us to add to this list by forwarding details of other pageants and community events to support@sacommunity.org

Christmas pageants

Saturday 10 November, 9.30am - Credit Union Christmas Pageant

Saturday 17 November, 11am - Mount Gambier Christmas Parade

Saturday 17 November, 5.30pm - Murray Bridge Pageant and Fireworks

Connecting Up congratulates the Disability Information & Resource Centre (DIRC) on  reaching its 30th anniversary. DIRC was established in 1982, just one year after Connecting Up and our organisations have been closely aligned during the past 3 decades.

DIRC has a great history of support for individuals with disability and their families. It has also done much to help community organisations in the disability sector through the provision of a meeting place and through information dissemination.

Guest post from community gardener Sachi Nakamura

A community garden is not only a place where people can come to grow food and get to know each other, but also a place to foster community spirit.

Ever tried to find out about something in your local community? Child care, your nearest Scout group, home help, a tennis club, yoga, art classes? You have probably used Google or other internet search engine plenty of times to see what it could find for you. If so, it’s highly likely that SAcommunity has helped.

Please note this is a story of the time and we have been advised that this service is no longer operating. Thank you.

Guest post from Kellie MacGillivray, Co-ordinator Homeshare, Uniting Communities

It's true! Our user statistics for SAcommunity show that visits to the website have doubled over the past 12 months and we are now receiving over 1 million visits per year. We think this is great - it shows that the information we are providing for the South Australian public, with the help of our local government partners, is meeting a real need and helping people in a tangible way.

The majority of our users are people living in South Australia and around 40% return to the website one or more times.

WALK FOR MENTAL HEALTH in Mental Health Week

Join Uniting Communities who are holding Tortoise and Hare – the Stress Less Walk at 10.30am on Tuesday 9 October. The route for the walk is along the River Torrens from the weir to the zoo then back to Elder Park to eat lunch (bring your own).

You probably know that Wikipedia is among the most frequently used websites on the World Wide Web.

LGBTIQ is a shortcut for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer.


Some links below are historical and have been edited and expanded.
Please find a revision for 2020 >>here 

The LGTBIQ community is as diverse as the rest of the population, but because of views held in some sections of our society about homosexuality, LGTBIQ people can experience discrimination and marginalisation that lead to a range of related problems concerning self-esteem, physical and mental health.