Circles of Care, Dalby is a community group auspiced by Myall Youth & Community Network Centre where we provide a meal each Thursday evening to those in need. The model we use is to have a different group provide a meal just once a year so we have 50+ businesses, schools, sporting groups etc who are happy to provide a meal to approximately 180 people. This means that we have our community supporting others in their community. We also have a data base of volunteers who support the group providing the meal by setting up, assisting with serving and cleaning up. Amazingly we have more volunteers than we need so people are only rostered on once or twice per month.

Our organisation works differently to other charities. Circles of Care, Dalby does not seek funding except for a small grant for containers but receives occasional small donations to provide a meal. We rely on our community to be involved and to date this model works for us. We are sometimes asked why a meal is not provided each night and our response is that it is better to provide one meal per week than none. And that we want the whole organisation to be for the community by the community. Any spare meals we have are served out during the week by Myall Youth and Community Network Centre to those who need them.