Over the past year, New Mornings has been on a mission. A mission to transform Tasmania. In the past 12 months alone, New Mornings has:

• Grown our staffing team to 10 staff: including our Chief Executive Officer, Grief Support Co-Ordinator, Mentoring Co-Ordinator, Volunteer and Operations Co-Ordinator, Lounge Co-Ordinator, Lounge Facilitator, 2 Mental Health Peer Practitioners, Mental Health Nurse and our Garden Manager.

• Contributed over 3,000 volunteer hours last year across our 4 main support areas

• Supported over 180 individuals in direct program engagement.

• Provided over $149,000 in annual in-kind value contributed through volunteer time alone.

• Expanded our Lounge program to a third day every week, which offers a capacity building model for our women to contribute back into the local community through upskilling their digital literacy, and becoming Mental Health Lived Experienced Advocates for various businesses wanting to incorporate a more robust mentally healthy workplace.

• The Lounge Program won the Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Network’s ‘Communities in Action Award’ for our work in suicide prevention and was a finalist in the National Awards for Suicide Prevention Programs.

• Commenced the expansion of our Lounge program to include a location in Queenstown, to provide invaluable support for the vulnerable women in this community.

• Begun Outreach grief support workshops within Waratah-Wynyard, understanding that there is a lack of support in this area, across to Smithton and Circular Head, for those living with complex grief and loss.

• Grown our mentoring program across Ulverstone and Burnie to support our vulnerable youth.

• Developed an adult-specific therapeutic garden program for those who are isolated and living with mental health conditions.

And we are calling on you to do something more. To do something extraordinary. To become a founding member in the RISE WITH US Movement.

The need to support vulnerable people in our community is greater than it’s ever been — and the opportunity to become a founding member? Unmatched. This isn’t just about providing support. It’s about taking your place among the trailblazers who are changing the course of mental health in Tasmania.

As a founding member of the RISE WITH US Movement, you’re not just providing a donation. You are making a statement of courage. A legacy of leadership.

We are asking you to say yes. Be bold. Let’s rewrite the future together. RISE WITH US.

Here is what your investment as a founding member unlocks:

• A full year of grief support workshops in regions currently without any formal response (spreading across all of the Northwest of Tasmania and beyond)

• The continued expansion of our award-winning Lounge program across more locations in Tasmania

• A commitment to expand our IMPACT Mentoring program across more primary and secondary schools in our region; specifically paring our mentors with students who come from homes of trauma and dysfunction

• The continued exploration and plans to move our organisation to a new premises where all of our support programs can be offered in one, central location – forming our very own local mental health space for our community

• Your name embedded in our Impact Report and on the walls of our multiple facilities as a Founding Partner of the Rise With Us movement