About Us
Compassion North Incorporated was originally founded as Roxburgh Park Community Church Facilitation Ministries Inc in 2008, which was then a small registered charity that was granted deductible gift-recipient status by the Australian Taxation Office. Its first major community-based initiative was a foodbank providing quality food free of charge to disadvantaged families in the Hume municipality.
The foodbank quickly grew in size. In addition to the foodbank, two Men’s Sheds were also established (see below). Another foodbank was established at Wallan in 2018. The list of community projects continued to expand.
In 2019 the charity changed structure and was renamed Compassion North Incorporated.
Compassion North is committed to creating, encouraging and sponsoring all kinds of community-based programs by,
Raising funds
Training volunteers
Networking and collaborating with other community groups and local government.
Key Objects (of the incorporated body)
The Association (Compassion North Inc.) is a charitable services institution (endorsed as a deductible gift recipient under item 4.1.7 in Subdivision 30-B of the ITAA) pursuing the following charitable objects:
to relieve poverty or distress (sickness, disability, destitution, suffering, misfortune or helplessness) in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne;
to promote the prevention or control of behaviour that is harmful or abusive to human beings in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne;
to undertake and advance such programs and activities of ReChurch and WGC in furtherance of clause 2(a) and 2(b) as determined by the Committee from time to time;
to act as trustee and to perform and discharge the duties and functions incidental to acting as a trustee where this is incidental or conducive to the attainment of these objects; and
to do such things as are incidental or ancillary to the attainment of these objects.