Violet

When Janet found Violet, she'd been so focused on caring for everyone else that she hadn't stopped to think about herself.
She first heard about us through the kind super fund representative helping with her husband's affairs, who saw what Janet was going through and suggested she call Violet.

"Talking to a Violet Guide really did change my life. It was so needed at that time of my life, because things were moving very quickly, and I think I'd given so much to everyone else that I hadn't thought of me."

"I was able to see the reality of where I was at, and what I had left to do, because the end of his life was coming."

She watched our resources with her son, Thomas. "The Violet resources were absolutely educational, informative, and done in taste. We knew what to look out for, and we felt better equipped for the stages that we had to go through."

"Death and dying is not an often spoken about subject, and we all like to hide away from it. But now there's help out there. Reach out to Violet, get some knowledge, better prepare yourself for the journey that you're going to go on — and get that strength to carry out everything you need to do." 💜

Violet's guided support is free for carers, and every donation helps us reach more families across the country who need that same support.

With June 30 approaching, every gift over $2 is tax deductible before the end of financial year. Whatever amount feels right helps us be there for the next family walking Janet's road.

👉 Donate today: www.givenow.com.au/violet

Right now, hundreds of thousands of Australians are supporting someone they love through the later stages of life. Most of them are figuring it out alone.

Almost 9 in 10 feel unprepared. 8 in 10 don't know where to start.

Violet matches carers with a Guide who has been through something similar. The conversations happen over the phone, at no cost. Their Guide listens, helps them make a plan, and makes sure they feel less alone and more prepared for what lies ahead.

We've already supported more than 50,000 Australians. But there are so many more families who need someone in their corner.

With the end of financial year approaching, your tax-deductible donation can help us reach them.

Donate Now ➡ www.givenow.com.au/violet

There are conversations most of us are quietly meaning to have with the people we love. About how they want to live the time still ahead, about what matters most to them, about what they'd want us to know. Most of us keep putting them off. Not because we don't care, but because we don't quite know where to start.
So on Tuesday 2 June, in Sydney, we've put together an evening to help.

Much loved broadcaster and author Sarah Macdonald sits down with Dr Kathryn Mannix, pioneering palliative care physician, global campaigner for better care and conversations through the last stages of life, and author of With the End in Mind and Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations.

Join us for an honest, warm and occasionally funny conversation about how we talk to the people we love about living well, and dying well.

Kathryn has spent decades at the bedside of people in the last chapter of their lives. What she's learned about love, honesty, and what people most need to say has made her one of the most sought-after voices in the world on this. Sarah, host of Club Sandwich, has been giving national voice to the midlife generation quietly caring for ageing parents while raising kids, building careers, and holding everything else together.

You'll leave with the courage to begin. And so you don't have to hold it all in your head, every guest takes home a copy of Put The Kettle On, our free guide to the conversations worth having with your mum or dad.

Tuesday 2 June, 6pm to 8.30pm
Flex by ISPT The Collider, 477 Pitt St, Haymarket, Sydney (next to Central)
Tickets $35 at clubsandwich.community
Or find them at humanitix.com
https://shorturl.at/GEgEd

Link in the comments below.

A Club Sandwich night. With love. 💛🥪

Stay for Supper | An evening with Sarah Macdonald and Dr Kathryn Mannix An evening with Sarah Macdonald & Dr Kathryn Mannix on the conversations worth having before you need to. A Club Sandwich night, with love.

Nobody wakes up one day and decides to become a carer.

It happens gradually. The extra phone calls. The driving to appointments. The quietly doing more and more until one day you look up and realise — this is your life now.

And somewhere in that shift, you may have noticed that parts of you went a little quiet. The things you used to do for yourself. The plans you used to make. The version of your life that existed before this one.

That doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. It means you're human — and you're carrying something significant.

At Violet, we support not just the person being cared for, but the person doing the caring. Because you matter in this too. 💜

Australia is one of the least prepared countries in the world for death.

Not because we don't love the people we're losing.

Because we don't talk about it.

We talk around it. We use words like "passing" and "gone" and "not long now." We change the subject. We tell ourselves there's more time.

And then suddenly, there isn't.

At Violet, we believe that talking about death - honestly, openly, before the crisis - is one of the most loving things a family can do.

Violet is here for families who are ready to have that conversation. 💜

We're glad you're here.

Today is the last day.

Our deadline to reach 1,000 letters is tonight.

If you've been meaning to write — this is it. Two minutes.

And if you've already written yours: thank you. You've done something that matters.

Violet is here to help. Help us stay here.

violet.org.au/no-family-alone

Almost 60% of Australians are already caring for an ageing loved one — or will be within the next decade.

That's not a statistic. That's your mum. Your dad. Your partner. The person whose health is quietly changing and nobody's quite ready to talk about it yet.

Violet is here for that moment. For the conversations that feel too hard to start. For the families who are trying to figure this out alone.

Free. For any Australian family who needs us. Without a single dollar of government support.

We're asking the government to invest in us. We need 1,000 letters to the Ministers by 5 April.

Know someone who should see this? Share it on.

Write a letter here → violet.org.au/no-family-alone

You probably know someone who's been through this.

A parent whose health started changing. A partner who needed more care than anyone knew how to give. A friend trying to hold a family together while holding down a job.

Violet was there for families like theirs. Free. Without a cent of government support.

We're asking the Ministers to change that. 1,000 letters by 5 April.

Know someone who should see this? Share it on.

Write yours here → violet.org.au/no-family-alone