Elm Grove Sanctuary Trust

19/06/2026

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has donated all of her personal income from speaking engagements, book projects, and community initiatives over recent years—totaling approximately NZ$3.8 million—to a nationwide homelessness support initiative across New Zealand, helping fund 60 transitional housing units and more than 120 emergency shelter beds for families in need.

“I have witnessed firsthand the impact that homelessness can have on families and communities across New Zealand,” Ardern said during a charity event in Auckland.

“I have always believed that if we have the ability to help others, we should do so in a way that creates meaningful and lasting change. No one deserves to live without safety, dignity, or a place to call home.”
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According to organizations involved in the project, the funding will be used to expand long-term housing assistance programs, emergency accommodation services, community food initiatives, counseling support, and resources for families facing financial hardship.

Project coordinators said the initiative will focus particularly on helping families with children, single parents, and individuals experiencing housing insecurity rebuild stable and independent lives.

Supporters across New Zealand have praised Ardern for what many are calling one of the most compassionate and impactful humanitarian gestures she has made since leaving office. Messages of support quickly spread across social media, with many people saying the donation reflects the values of empathy, kindness, and community responsibility that have long been associated with her public service career.

16/06/2026

The Elm Grove Story

We live in a world which is increasingly bunkering down on identities which give security to those who are included, but which exclude, sometimes violently, those who do not. We live in a world where power and advantage are fiercely protected; where those who have, increase their wealth; and those who have not are left to fend for themselves as best they can. We live in a world in which institutionalised religion is risk adverse, protects itself, does not engage with the broad stream – and is shrinking.

The story of Elm Grove is the story of Ed, Laurel, and their community who refused to be defined by these realities.

It is the extraordinary story of daring to live the Lord’s Prayer – living on earth “as in heaven”.

It is the story of believing that as God is, so we are called to be – and live.

Elm Grove:
* accepted no boundaries of exclusion – all were welcome there.
* dared to believe that justice can outrun injustice.
* through grace and love Elm Grove invested in the weak and vulnerable.
* expected the life-giving wind of the spirit to constantly fill their sails.

Like the woman in the Elijah story – Elm Grove experienced the reality that their jar of oil would not run out or their sack of flour diminish.

It is a love story, love of God, love of one another, love of the weak and vulnerable, love of the created order in all its diversity, fragility and beauty. Elm Grove is a story of hope that the world need not be the broken reality most of us experience, but can be the redeemed community of the children of God.

Margaret and I have been recipients of the generous grace of Elm Grove on more than one occasion. For some years it was my privilege, to be its joint guardian in partnership with the godly Father Francis, Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn. This was both a responsibility and a gift.

As you read this story do not simply read about the experience of a small group who joyfully accepted the discipline inherent in being one of the ‘Little Followers of St Francis’, but read it as sign of hope that we are not necessarily doomed to live as members of a self-centred, self-serving world, but we can forge a path that enables us to live differently, to journey that path less travelled.

I commend the Elm Grove story to you in both gratitude and admiration.

Bishop George Browning PhD, DLitt

Past Guardian, Elm Grove Community

07/06/2026

Are you looking for some Winter reading? It seems that our story has been 'discovered' as people seek answers to where our humanity is heading. It is time for us to release the dualistic mind.
"The dualistic mind is the one we’re all educated into. It’s the one that gets us through the day, helping us make important distinctions and necessary judgments, pointing us to the left or right. It’s essential for the advent of the scientific, industrial, and now technological revolutions, so we’re all grateful for it. It’s good and necessary as far as it goes, but let me be clear, it doesn’t go far enough! The dualistic mind cannot deal with the biggies: love, death, suffering, God, infinity, and the very notion of grace.
To balance what I see as our over-reliance on dualistic thinking, we have to find ways to practice thinking in a different way, where we can receive the moment as an open field. I call it the nondual or contemplative mind....With the contemplative mind, we can leave the field open." Franciscan Fr Richard Rhor

06/06/2026

To donate go to - https://elmgrovetrust.org.au/donate/
Thank you most sincerely for your support.
Laurel - CEO Elm Grove Sanctuary Trust

27/05/2026

27/05/2026

Autumn at Elm Grove Sanctuary 2026

14/05/2026

Our newsletter just out -

"When we seek to find our life’s purpose that was imprinted within us at our birth, it is through love and service to others that we express that greater love that created us. Our shared thoughts and reflections can enhance our search and recognition."

11/12/2025

11/12/2025

Seeking your Support

Your gift to Elm Grove Sanctuary Trust can offer inspiration, transformation and wonder to those whom we support on your behalf. Our world is at a pivotal point where division and despair can bring humanity to helplessness without a future.

Our charity is moving into 2026 with HOPE firmly up ahead of us. Our work this year has brought opportunity for our younger generation to find direction and future possibility for their lives and we need your help - either with your time in volunteering, resourcefulness through communication skills and networking, or in financial support for our projects.

These funds are essential to sustain and to promote the areas that we see such value in supporting, especially our younger generation - who are the future.

Please check out our website and Newsletters to know more about our work.
www.elmgrovetrust.org.au

For those who wish to donate towards our ongoing work the link is on our website https://elmgrovetrust.org.au/donate/ or email us [email protected]

All donations are tax deductible.


We wish everyone a safe, and peace-filled Christmas in gratitude for your valuable support throughout this year.

Elm Grove Sanctuary Trust
PO Box 453 Narooma NSW
www.elmgrovetrust.org.au
[email protected]

“If we will have the wisdom to survive, To stand like slow growing trees on a ruined place, Renewing, enriching it, If we will make our seasons welcome here, Asking not too much of earth or heaven, Then a long time after we are dead , The lives our lives prepare will live here.” (Wendell Berry) ...