Mini Vinnies

Greetings, Parents and Families,

The Mini Vinnies would like to sincerely thank you for your generous donations to our Winter Appeal. We collected nearly 400 individual food items, which is an incredible achievement and a wonderful reflection of our school community’s generosity.  Your donations have helped support families in our local community during the cold winter months and have helped ease the burden of difficult financial times.

Thank you for your kindness, generosity and support of our Mini Vinnies. Your contributions have made a real difference to those in need within our community.

2026 Mini Vinnies

Mini Vinnies - Food If You Need It!

Our Mini Vinnies students have been working hard on a wonderful new initiative. As a part of our mission to ‘love one another’ Mini Vinnies are asking families to double a recipe to help others. Families who might be in need, will be able to take a meal from the freezer. At various times we may all need a hand, and with the cost of living impacting everyone, this is an easy way to help others in our immediate community. 

A big thank you to the Parents Association for their fundraising, which has paid for a freezer to store the food.

What to do if you would like to offer your cooking services (you don’t have to be a fantastic cook). The Mini Vinnies students wish to freeze pre-cooked meals such as pasta, stews, casseroles or anything you love to cook that can be frozen.

• Email Andrea Dowling to express your interest in helping: adowling@htws.catholic.edu.au 
• Your name will be added to a spreadsheet and you will be contacted when it is your turn to cook. Please use a container that you don’t need back and place a list of all the ingredients to the lid as well as the date the meal was prepared.
• Donations will be delivered to the office and taken to the freezer. 
• As soon as we have a few meals stored we will inform you how to collect a meal if needed.