News and Updates

When times get hard, there’s nothing better than a helping hand. Victoria’s wild weather from 9–10 June presented challenges for many Victorians, including residents in our Romsey and Lancefield units who lost power for several days.

Wintringham is proud to announce that we are helping over 240 people aged 50-plus secure homes across metropolitan Melbourne as part of the Victorian Government’s From Homelessness to a Home (H2H) project.

National Reconciliation Week takes place from 27 May to 3 June every year. The theme for 2021 was ‘More than a Word. Reconciliation Takes Action’, which encourages Australians to move past words and turn their sentiments into real action.

It seems 2021 will be a year of growth as Wintringham expands its service offering to Tasmania and to other parts of metropolitan Melbourne.

Wintringham resident Sue Armstrong is a woman of many talents. Not only is she a talented artist and passionate advocate for people with a disability, she is also the Chairperson of Mixed Nuts Media.

Wintringham is committed to protecting its residents, clients and staff from the constant and ever-present threat of COVID-19.

Wintringham has been selected by the Tasmanian Government to provide tenancy management and housing support services for a new 25-unit social housing complex in Hobart.

Yorta Yorta Elder and Wintringham client, Aunty Joyce and her husband, Yorta Yorta and Mutti Mutti Elder, Uncle Graham (Boots) have been named Brimbank City Council’s Citizens of the Year!

Bryan made Wintringham’s McLean Lodge residential aged care home in Flemington his new home in February 2020, a month before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and restrictions impacted the lives of people living throughout Melbourne.

Wintringham has proudly opened the doors to our first Specialist Dementia Care Unit in Flemington, adjacent to our residential aged care home, McLean Lodge.

Homelessness Week 2020 has begun, which means that Wintringham’s Art Space 2020 is now live and the People’s Choice Award is open for voting.

It’s been three weeks since Theresia moved into her new home at the Alexander Miller Wintringham homes in Highton. Having been here only a short time, she’s happy to have now found again what she had lost; Theresia says she’s regained her dignity and feels at peace in her new ‘home until stumps’.