Pets Of The Homeless Australia

With a brand new year on the horizon, it’s the perfect time to look back on 2018 and all that we have achieved with your support over the past 12 months. It’s no exaggeration to say that this has been our biggest year EVER since Pets of the Homeless (POTH) was founded back in 2015. […]

Please welcome our new volunteer, Martha! Martha has volunteered with Pets of the Homeless (POTH) since February this year, helping out with fundraising and strategy, when in October she became the fifth member of our Board. Using advocacy, campaigns and communications in her quest for doing good, Martha has zeroed in on building the capacity Pets of the […]

September 13 is R U OK? Day, a national day of action that encourages us to check in with the people in our lives and ask in a meaningful way whether there’s anything they’re struggling with. Around this time each year, you may notice your social media feeds cluttered with posts from well-meaning people letting […]

Our little charity is currently in the running for funding from the Victorian government to launch Victoria’s very first Pet Food Bank, but we need our supporter’s help to make it happen.   You might be wondering, what’s a Pet Food Bank? And why would we need one? Well, the best way to answer that […]

This month, our little charity celebrates 3 very special years of helping to keep best friends together. In celebration of such an important milestone, we asked Pets of the Homeless (POTH) Founder Yvonne Hong to share her own story of what it has been like to single-handedly launch a charity of her own and tell […]

Ken, the founder of Pantry 5000 with his wife Sue Food is a reason people come to Pantry 5000 every Wednesday, but food is actually secondary.   At the rear of a local church in Carrum, Pantry 5000, opens its doors (and hearts) to around 250 disadvantaged people each Wednesday providing free weekly food staples, […]

  One year ago Margaret returned home to find her best mate, Boof foaming at the mouth, with eyes like cherries, vomiting and unable to move. Something was very wrong. Margaret held the 6yr old kelpie/staffy cross like a baby, crying. Boof had been poisoned from eating contaminated grass. Margaret was able to get him […]

  National Volunteer Week (May 21st- 27th 2018) is an annual event in which organisations across Australia celebrate the important contribution of volunteers. To us at Pets of the Homeless (POTH), we believe National Volunteer Week offers a great opportunity to discuss the many benefits of volunteering and talk about how volunteers help make our […]

At Pets of the Homeless (POTH), we believe our volunteers are our greatest assets. If it weren’t for their support, there is simply no way we would be able to achieve all of the amazing results that we have so far. Spurred by a desire to help those less fortunate, Sandra Bingham first started volunteering […]

At Pets of the Homeless (POTH), we love being able to share our success stories with our wide network of supporters and a big part of how we do that is by creating engaging content that we share through our website and social media channels. Animal lover Katrina Gilroy is our talented Graphic Designer who […]