CREATING WARMTH AND COMFORT FOR THOSE IN NEED ONE STITCH AT A TIME

GOG Calendar of Events

GOG WORKING BEE DATES
2023

Our Working Bees will be held fortnightly from 1pm – 4pm in Room 3.02 (level 3) at the Marie Reay Teaching Centre at the ANU unless otherwise noted.

Please reserve a ticket on Eventbrite for all workshops to assist us with planning.

For any special events please email your interest in attending or check out our Facebook Events. Hope to see you there!

BECOME A GOG MEMBER NOW!

Join up! Join up! 

All GOG financial members are invited to renew our Memberships in January!  Or if you’d like to support us by becoming a new member, …..why not join now? It costs just $10 per year to join GOG, or to renew your membership. GOG membership is very rewarding and  you receive:

🧶All the yarn and supplies you need to create your beautiful GOG comfort pieces to donate

🧶Invitation to our fortnightly Working Bees 

🧶 Access to all our workshops throughout Canberra

🧶 Invitation to special events

🧶 Our monthly newsletter, the “GOG Gazette”

🧶Access to our physical and online pattern library

🧶 The chance to connect with a kind, supportive and creative community of like minded people

🧶 And, if you’re becoming a financial member for the first time, you will also receive our welcome pack which contains a crochet hook, needles, and other useful supplies to start your GOG journey. 

Everyone, from complete crochet/knitting beginners to inspiring experts, are welcome to join us!

Ready to renew (or join up for the first time)? You can do it all here, or in person if you prefer.  Just click on the ‘Become a Member’ button above.

Good Omen Goodeze prides itself on being a highly inclusive and supportive charity. If you would like to join us but can’t due to financial reasons, please email us at admin@goodomengoodeze.org.au  and we will work with you to find a way.

GOG's Crafternoon at Taylor!

Thanks to the generous support of Mingle and the Margaret Hendry School, GOG’s craft group in Taylor is back! It is part of our Community Threads Project and aims to build community through crochet and conversation!  New to crochet? No problem!! The group is free to attend and open to people of all skill levels. So come join us Thursdays for an afternoon of craft and conversation!  💜💚💜

Join us from: 1.00pm – 3pm at the Community Centre, Margaret Hendry School, Taylor 

Dickson Craft and Conversation!

If you enjoy a cuppa and a chat and have an hour or two free,  please come along and join us at Majura Hall in Dickson! Beginners to experienced ‘stitchers’ are welcome. 💜💚💜

Join us from 10.00am – 12 midday at the Majura Hall, Northside Community Service, Dickson for our inner city members

 

News, Events and GOG Love

COTA Seniors Autumn Expo

GOG spent the day, alongside Northside Community Service, at the COTA ACT Seniors Expo in Autumn!!Mary, Kerry and Nuria have been busy sharing information about

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Good Omen Goodeze Inc

Good Omen Goodeze (affectionately known as GOG) is a grassroots charity that started about 5 years ago to engage Canberrans of all walks of life to craft beautiful comfort items for patients, families and staff in the ACT health services. GOG’s vision is ‘providing warmth and comfort for those in need, one stitch at a time’ and our key focus is crafting items for people in ICU, aged care and end of life settings, while also reaching out into other areas of the community including children’s vaccinations, local charities, walk-in centres and the ACT Ambulance Service.

Our charitable work focuses on engaging the local community through working bees, workshops, public events and online activities with a focus on fostering positive, supportive and inclusive opportunities for people to meet, learn and share a love of crafting – all with the aim of giving back to people in need in the ACT community. We engage community groups with outreach to people from culturally diverse or socially isolated backgrounds, as well as schools, universities and through online initiatives. Much of our work supports mental health in the community, and our comfort items also facilitate health care – GOG items are recognised as supporting two ACT health care accreditation standards.

In February 2019 we successfully piloted a Knitting for Mindfulness Program within The Canberra Hospital.  In September 2020 GOG applied for and won a ‘Covid19 Mental Health Innovations Grant’ which gave us the opportunity to provide a similar wellness program to the wider Canberra Community.  Further information regarding our Project can be found on our website under the ‘Community Threads Project’ section.

We’d love to hear from you.

GOG is entirely volunteer run by people who juggle work and family. Someone will get back to you as soon as we can.

Email: admin@goodomengoodeze.org.au

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