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At Easy Care Gardening we connect our volunteers with the older people in our community. By helping these older residents to maintain safe and sustainable gardens, we enable them to live fulfilled lives at home for longer.
In over 35 years, we’ve grown from humble beginnings with a few volunteers helping a fellow neighbour, to now a community-focused organisation dedicated to assisting older people with the care of their garden.
We work with around 800 clients a year and have over 300 active volunteers to help perform our work.
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08 October 2024
The last of our Founding Members, Anne (Sophie) Shires, has passed away last Friday, 4th of October. Anne has been instrumental in guiding our organisation on its path to helping serve our older community. On the 8th of August 1988 Anne Shires, Kathleen Ciemiega and Henry Llewellyn, the three founders of Easy Care Gardening (ECG), started the organisation with a grant for just $1,500 from Ku-ring-gai Council. They were Horticultural Therapy Association volunteers and had seen that there was a need for a gardening service for the older people in the community that would help enable them to remain in their own home for longer. Today we have helped over 5,300 clients and serviced over 65,000 gardens. Our thoughts are with Anne's family at this difficult time. Anne will be deeply missed but never forgotten. The funeral has been scheduled for Wednesday the 9th of October, 12pm at Greenways Memorial Park, Kincumber.
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09 May 2024
Wahroonga Electorate Senior Volunteers. Ian Stuart from Easy Care Gardening received a Local Achievement Award for volunteering for 1,442 hours—or 450 days—in the gardens of older clients.
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31 August 2023
"Doody" from Channel 10 dropped in to interview our team and one of our clients about our volunteer-led organisation.
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Without them we simply could not do the work that we do. No gardening experience is needed to be a volunteer. If you’re reasonably active and willing to help and have a “can-do” teamwork attitude, then you’re a perfect fit!
ButtonOur achievements to date wouldn’t be possible without the invaluable support of corporate businesses and local councils.
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