Help us make a difference
Each year Zig Zag faces ever increasing demands for our services and even though we receive funding from the Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women and the Department of Housing and Public Works, we struggle in an environment of increased need with depleting resources. Please dig deep and generously to assist Zig Zag’s committed workers in their continued support of young women at risk in our community.
Zig Zag is a registered charity. Tax deductible donations may be made directly:
Zig Zag Young Women’s Resource Centre Inc
575 Old Cleveland Road
Camp Hill QLD 4152
Donations can also be made via the Give Now website.
Key areas of expenditure for funds donated are:
Emergency relief support – food vouchers, go cards, and phone credit
Therapeutic counselling resources
Group work resources
Library books and resources
Independent housing support – household items, kitchen utensils, linen, laundry items, whitegoods, and furniture
Therapeutic resources used in counselling
Community education – information resources
Make a donation now
Your support can assist our work in the following ways:
- Purchasing an adult Go-Card with $20 worth of travel to appointments;
- Period products and self-care items;
- Pay for a week’s fuel to assist travel to medical appointments, school collection, work or education;
- Assist with emergency food needs.
- Purchasing food or groceries for a young woman and/or her kids escaping domestic, family and/or sexual violence;
- Purchase nappies and formula for a young family;
- Taxi travel to assist with access to medical appointments;
- Assist travel to important appointments during COVID-19 when services are not available to transport.
- Provide some relief toward groceries and household set-up;
- Purchase a ‘laundry and cleaning’ pack to assist a young woman to enter or exit a property;
- Purchase a new born baby welcome pack.
- Provide a young woman or their children school essential items such as books, fees, uniforms and excursion;
- Purchase maternity items for a mum to be such as clothing, bras, pads etc.;
- Short term accommodation for a young woman experiencing homelessness either sleeping rough, couch surfing and/or escaping domestic or family violence;
- Gifting a young woman significant initial household setup needs for her new home, like a toaster/kettle/cutlery/sheets etc.;
- Support a young woman on the journey to getting their drivers licence;
- Support a young woman to obtain essential ID for herself and/or children;
- Assist a young woman to access child care fees and needs.
- Contributing to household removal costs when young women and children are escaping domestic, family and/or sexual violence, or move to their new home;
- Paying for storage of household items when leaving a DFV situation or unplanned eviction from a property;
- Support a young woman to sustain her tenancy (i.e. rubbish removal, yard maintenance, pest control);
- Purchase whitegoods and/or small electrical appliances.
