{"id":2637,"date":"2023-08-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horner-au.ap.applyflow.com\/uncategorized\/supporting-homelessness-week\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T23:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T23:21:46","slug":"supporting-homelessness-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/supporting-homelessness-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting Homelessness Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Corporate Volunteering for Homelessness Week<\/h2>\n<p>Did you know that in Australia there are over 120,000 people experiencing\u00a0homelessness on\u00a0any given night?\u00a0\u00a0Did you also know homelessness\u00a0does not\u00a0necessarily mean &#8216;rooflessness\u2019?\u200b<\/p>\n<p>This week is <a href=\"https:\/\/homelessnessaustralia.org.au\/homelessness-week\/\">Homelessness Week<\/a> (7 &#8211; 13 August, 2023). Hosted annually by Homelessness Australia,\u00a0Homelessness Week aims to raise awareness of the impact of homelessness, and the solutions\u00a0needed to end homelessness. The theme for 2023 is \u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0time to end homelessness\u201d.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>In the lead up to Homelessness Week,\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/about-us\/\">Horner team<\/a> had the privilege to don an apron and\u00a0help out\u00a0serving meals at the Magpie Nest Caf\u00e9 in Melbourne as part of our Giving Back to the Community Program.<\/p>\n<p>Part of The Salvation Army Melbourne Project 614, the Magpie Nest Caf\u00e9 is a welcoming\u00a0community caf\u00e9 providing free breakfast and lunch, as well as support to people from all walks\u00a0of life, especially those living on the margins of society.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>We are\u00a0in awe and applaud the amazing work the dedicated team at the Salvo&#8217;s team\u00a0does,\u00a0every day making a genuine difference to people&#8217;s lives. Our hats go off to\u00a0Michael,\u00a0Jessie\u00a0and front of house team and to all the chefs working hard in the kitchen.\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p>It was such a rewarding experience. We\u00a0loved putting a smile on people\u2019s faces and hearing\u00a0their stories while\u00a0giving them a hot meal. We look forward to coming back to\u00a0help out\u00a0again\u00a0soon. We encourage other organisations to get involved and make a difference by corporate volunteering.\u200b<\/p>\n<h3>Find out more about the Magpie Nest<\/h3>\n<p>To find how you can support\u00a0The Salvation Army Melbourne Project 614, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lnkd.in\/g6-KW-F\">https:\/\/www.salvationarmy.org.au\/melbourne614\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Find out more about Homelessness Week<\/h3>\n<p>To learn more about Homelessness Week 2023, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/homelessnessaustralia.org.au\/homelessness-week\/\">https:\/\/homelessnessaustralia.org.au\/homelessness-week\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13963\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-01.cms-ap-v2i.applyflow.com\/horner-au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5535-600x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-13964\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-01.cms-ap-v2i.applyflow.com\/horner-au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5685-600x513-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"451\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13968\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-01.cms-ap-v2i.applyflow.com\/horner-au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_5722-454x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"600\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13969\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-01.cms-ap-v2i.applyflow.com\/horner-au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_8485-600x450-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate Volunteering for Homelessness Week Did you know that in Australia there are over 120,000 people experiencing\u00a0homelessness on\u00a0any given night?\u00a0\u00a0Did you also know homelessness\u00a0does not\u00a0necessarily mean &#8216;rooflessness\u2019?\u200b This week is Homelessness Week (7 &#8211; 13 August, 2023). Hosted annually by Homelessness Australia,\u00a0Homelessness Week aims to raise awareness of the impact of homelessness, and the solutions\u00a0needed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4864,"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/4864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horner.com.au\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}