Once again, Wayside Chapel will host two free Christmas celebrations, providing love and support for Sydney’s homeless community on Christmas Day. Join us at our Christmas Day Lunch and Street Party as we shut down Hughes Street, Potts Point for Wayside Chapel’s largest community celebration of the year, including free Christmas lunch served with all the trimmings, entertainment and dancing on the street. Or you can join us for a festive celebration in Bondi Beach with a Christmas Day BBQ, with live entertainment right on the sands of Bondi Beach.

More details on both events to come. 

This Christmas, Donate a Plate and provide a delicious meal for a person experiencing homelessness on Christmas Day. Wayside Chapel needs to raise $400,000 before Christmas to make sure anyone in crisis or experiencing homelessness is fed and supported during what can be a lonely and difficult time of year. Funds raised will go towards our Christmas Day Street Party and towards the cost of opening our programs and services throughout January so that no-one is left out.

Donate a Plate here

**Registrations for Long Walk Home 2019 are now open!**

Long Walk Home is a 28km fundraising walk from Parramatta to Kings Cross, raising money to support Wayside Chapel and people experiencing homelessness.

Did you know in an average week, a person sleeping rough walks a distance of 28km looking for a place to sleep? Tonight as you head home, over 116,000 people won’t have a place to call home. Some will be wandering through the city, looking for a place to rest their head for the night, desperate for a safe space or shelter. A park bench is sometimes the only option.

Take steps to help people experiencing homelessness with Long Walk Home.

Register Now Long Walk Home is proudly supported by NRMA Insurance.

Get inspired and watch what unfolded at last year’s Long Walk Home at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/thewaysidechapel/videos/784988711863901/

Wayside Walks is a tour unlike any you’ll ever find in a guide book. It takes people around Kings Cross and Elizabeth Bay where Andrew points out spots of significance along the way – the places where he slept and ate, other charities that are in the area and moments of how he came to know Wayside so well.

The host is Wayside employee and former rough sleeper, Andrew Windsor, who draws on his own experiences of homelessness and addiction to provide people with a rare insight into street life.

Book your tickets here. 

Tour Details

When: First Friday of each Month

Where: Tour departs from Wayside Chapel, 29 Hughes Street, Potts Point.

Time: 6pm – 8:30pm

Tickets: $45, available here.

Every Tuesday and Thursday from 1pm, we hold our Community Lunch, free and open to all. The atmosphere is electric, as corporates, staff, volunteers and visitors sit side by side, and enjoy delicious food, festivities and prizes. It’s the best part of the day!

To learn more about corporate volunteering, click here.

Junior Jivers is a one hour music and movement group for children under five, meeting every Monday at 10am (Except public holidays). Cost of entry is a $4 donation per child/class, $5 for two. If you would like to come down and check it out your first session is free! Junior Jivers is is a community driven event, come and join us with your bub!

For more info, check out their website. 

Do you want to gain confidence in public speaking, networking and other skills, all while becoming a part of a tight-knit, encouraging community? Then you should join us at Wayside Voices!

We have been an established Toastmasters club since May 2017 and we meet every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at Wayside Kings Cross. Toastmasters International is a world leader in communication and leadership development, with over 16,400 clubs across the world.

With Wayside Voices, you build key communication skills with a series of challenges and roles that you take on each meeting. Toastmasters can not only benefit your work productivity, but it can also benefit your personal life as well!

You don’t have to sign up right away. You are more than welcome to just come along as a guest to see if you like it.

Wayside Voices 
Every 2nd & 4th Wednesday, starting at 6pm (arrive 5:50pm)
Board Room (Level 4) Wayside Chapel Kings Cross – 29 Hughes St Potts Point

For more information, email Kamila at [email protected] 

Wayside Chapel are bringing music legends together, who usually would never appear on stage in an intimate series of events held every few months at Wayside Chapel Bondi Beach (95 Roscoe St Bondi Beach.)

Watch this space for details about the next show, which will be coming up later in 2018.

Take a tour of The Wayside Chapel and get a real insight into our program areas and our mission and vision for the community.

Based in Kings Cross, each tour will cover the history of Wayside, an overview and visit to each of our program areas, plus personal Wayside anecdotes and insights into life in the Cross.

At the end of the tour, you’re more than welcome to hang out in our Wayside Cafe and soak up the vibrant atmosphere.

The tour host is Wayside employee and former rough sleeper, Rob Holt, who draws on his own experiences of homelessness and addiction to provide people with a rare insight into street life.

Building tours are $15 per person.