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About Charlie's Gift

Charlie's Story

Charlie is our Founder’s father, who died just short of his 80th Birthday, March 2016, in a small regional town.

Charlie is described as a generous, witty, resilient and ‘grassroots’ man with a strong sense of community values.

He believed that whether your family or your community, ‘you looked after your own’ which he did.

Charlie believed in engaging with and being there for all of his community. He especially valued and respected his older community and engaged with and supported those who lived alone without local family.

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Charlie's Legacy

Charlie taught us that it is often the small and practical gestures that we are all capable of doing, that have the greatest effect on the self-value and well-being of our older community. Small gestures such as:

  • Time
  • Friendship
  • Companionship
  • Respect
  • Support
  • Comfort
  • Engagement
  • Confidence
  • Enablement
  • Inclusion, and
  • Joy

Charlie showed us the value of a compassionate and inclusive community and the simplicity of coming together to prevent older people from experiencing loneliness, social isolation and subsequent infirmity.

Charlie's Gift

At Charlie’s wake, neighbours summed Charlie and his gift to his community up beautifully.  She said…

‘There seems to be much less laughter and light in the community without Charlie; I don’t know how we will all manage without him.

 Charlie gave so much of himself and would never accept praise or payment. He will be missed more than he ever realised…’

Charlie’s ‘gift’ is his legacy, the ‘gift of community connection, the gift of giving time, friendship, regard and support to his older community who would otherwise find independent living difficult, lonely and isolating.

Charlie gave his community the gift of confident ageing through engagement and support – this is now our gift to you.

About Us

Through Charlie’s legacy, the Charlie’s Gift Fund Incorporated (affectionately known as Charlie’s Gift Charity Fund) was founded.

We are an independent charity not for profit founded for the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie communities. Driven by community values, we are passionate to ensure our current and future diverse and older community feel valued, engaged, connected and supported to age with confidence.

Charlie’s Gift strongly believe that it is not one person’s or organisation’s responsibility to ensure loneliness, social isolation and subsequent infirmity is not experienced because of challenges and often loss experienced with growing older. That if we truly want to see changes to ageing outcomes, it is the responsibility of us all to be the change! After all, we are all ageing from the day we are born.

With your help, Charlie’s Gift aims to prevent the precursors that lead to loneliness and community disconnect through engagement, community connection and enabling access to needed information and resources.

Charlie’s Gift is the ‘gift’ of giving what we all deserve, the means to age with confidence.

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