Headstone Healing Project

Headstone Healing Project 2024 saw 143 headstones/graves at the Drayton & Toowoomba Cemetery deliberately damaged by vandalism.

As a non-profit community org, your support will help restore many of these graves, so pls donate at: Headstone Healing | bsb 084034 | account 978172393.

Acknowledging ANZAC day with sprigs of rosemary. 🙏🏼
24/04/2026

Acknowledging ANZAC day with sprigs of rosemary.
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Special moment at Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery today with interviews continuing for University of Southern Queensland ...
22/04/2026

Special moment at Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery today with interviews continuing for University of Southern Queensland - Australia year 2 Bachelor of Film and Screen Production student Addeline Brown and her 6 colleagues.

Headstone Healing Project co-founder Greg Johnson was today's "target" following on from Russ Dowrick and Lisa Herbert, with Shelley Burchett to come.

Cameras were clicking, sound checks were continuing and the "crew" operated like experienced professionals.

Stand by for a wonderful documentary, which is a compulsory part of the degree.

Thanks "Addie" for choosing Headstone Healing Project!

Lovely to welcome Addeline Brown (right) to our Headstone Healing Project meeting at Club Toowoomba last evening.Addelin...
15/04/2026

Lovely to welcome Addeline Brown (right) to our Headstone Healing Project meeting at Club Toowoomba last evening.

Addeline is a year 2 student at University of Southern Queensland - Australia, undertaking her degree in Film and Screen Production and has chosen our project for her compulsory documentary.

Filming starts next week and so far Greg Johnson (left), Lisa Herbert of Cemetery Tours Toowoomba (second from left) and Russ Dowrick (second from right,) plus Shelley Burchett are the stars!

Many thanks for choosing our project Addeline.

“It’s proof that while stone can be broken, a pioneer’s legacy is much harder to topple.”Another great article from Lisa...
14/04/2026

“It’s proof that while stone can be broken, a pioneer’s legacy is much harder to topple.”

Another great article from Lisa Herbert in today’s Chronicle

What a thrill it was for team members Shelley Burchett and Greg Johnson to catch up with 2nd year Bachelor of Film and...
14/04/2026

What a thrill it was for team members Shelley Burchett and Greg Johnson to catch up with 2nd year Bachelor of Film and Screen Production student Addeline Brown this morning.

As part of her studies, Addeline is doing a documentary and has chosen Headstone Healing Project as the subject, thanks Addeline.

👉🏼 FYI ….
11/04/2026

👉🏼 FYI ….

25/03/2026

REPAIRED!

If you've been on a tour with Cemetery Tours Toowoomba, there's a good chance you were introduced to the grave of 4-year-old James Wood Partridge, who died in 1895. It was one of around 150 graves that were vandalised in August 2024.

I'm thrilled to report that, thanks to generous donors, little James's memorial monument is again standing tall. The inscription "Jesus said suffer little children to come unto me" is no longer in the dirt.

The hand-carved cross, which was broken into about five pieces, couldn't be salvaged after it went missing from the cemetery months after the vandalism. Very frustrating. The cost of replacing the cross was in the thousands.

This headstone is one of 17 that have been repaired in the past week by JH Wagner & Sons. Yes, 17!

Cemetery Tours Toowoomba has been working for more than a year to coordinate the repairs as part of the Headstone Healing Project . It's wonderful to see so many standing tall again. The work continues.

Each one of these graves hold important insights into our past. Come and hear them.
🪦 The next Tales From the Tombstones are:
📆 Good Friday (April 3) and April 18
🦽 There's an Easy Access Stroll n Roll for people with mobility challenges on April 18, too.
📍Bookings essential via https://cemeterytourstoowoomba.com.au/

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of our community, and communities throughout Australia and beyond, Headstone Heali...
25/03/2026

Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of our community, and communities throughout Australia and beyond, Headstone Healing Project has been able to repair another 17 vandalised headstones.

What a thrill it was for Headstone Healing Project's Jim O'Dea and Marie Green to catch up with Exhibition Gardener Moya...
18/11/2025

What a thrill it was for Headstone Healing Project's Jim O'Dea and Marie Green to catch up with Exhibition Gardener Moya Mohr at the annual presentation of cheques earlier this week.

Moya was a delight to work with over our 10 days at her beautiful garden for which we received $8,500 to restore even more vandalised headstones at Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery.

Thank you, Moya, and thank you to our wonderful volunteers.

Was terrific to be part of this - as $8,500 will go a long way to helping restore some of the damaged headstones. Than...
18/11/2025

Was terrific to be part of this - as $8,500 will go a long way to helping restore some of the damaged headstones.
Thankyou to all involved, the community, and beyond, who gave so generously.
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PO Box 11411
Toowoomba, QLD
4350

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+61414783343

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