Year 11 Roughtober Sleepout and Urban Walk

As in previous years, many Year 11 students have signed up to participate in the Youth Roughtober Sleepout, on Friday, 30 October.

This is an awareness and fundraising event for Rough Edges, a drop-in café for people who are living in vulnerable and at-risk situations to have a place where they can belong, receive food, and develop a sense of community with other people each night. The funds will also go some way to helping the Banksia program which is a support service for women experiencing domestic violence.

As a school with a Christian foundation, we are guided by the example of Jesus to love our neighbours. When we think about what Jesus meant by love, and how he showed this, we see that he began by noticing people in need, and those suffering, lonely or forgotten by society. Not only did he notice, but he also reached out and by doing so, was the presence of a loving God to those people.

Rough Edges relies very much on fundraising efforts to sustain its vital services here in Darlinghurst. Click here to read how this service helps people rebuild their lives and treats patrons with dignity through the care shown by those serving and volunteering at the café.

We hope that you will help support our Year 11s who are sleeping rough by donating to our SCEGGS Darlinghurst Roughtober fundraiser. Click here to donate. 

We thank you for your generosity and support of this important service. I am very proud of the students who have embraced this initiative so enthusiastically and have shown great commitment to giving back to our local community.

Dynielle Whitney
Head of Religious Education & Social Justice Coordinator