Petition's Signature Map

An overview of where the support has come from our online petition.  Although the centres involved are in Victoria the support has come from all over.  I have had people say they have moved interstate and missed the support occasional childcare gave them, I have had grandparents from overseas say their families rely on it as they cannot offer the support some grandparents can who live locally.

Please note an online petition aimed at the Federal Government is also available here from Kelly O'Dwyer's Office currently - please take two minutes to sign this also.

Launch of Campaign Postcard

Campaign Postcard is being launched and we ask that you join in and do your bit to save Occasional Care!

We are sending 130 politicians a series of postcards with different messages to let them know we are not going away.

We want every Take A Break funded Occasional Care centre to join in.

Will your centre?

To make it easy for you we have attached:

1.       A flyer explaining the campaign -

Campaign Postcard Flyer PDF 

2.       The address list of the Victorian politicians (and Julia Gillard and Kate Ellis) -

Victorian Politicians Address List
Labels for Members of Victorian Parliament

3.       A sample Media Alert to send to the media (to make the most of the campaign it’s worth getting your local papers and TV stations involved).

Media Alert - Campaign Postcard

We can also send you the photo’s to send to the politicians or you can create your own!

It would be great if your centre could mail postcards to all 130 politicians, but if this is not possible, then mail as many as you can – some is better than none!

• Check out Target, Big W, Ted's, Harvey Norman, Snapfish ect for cheap bulk printing
• Use your own centre as a postcard
• Recreate a message like the one above
• Hold a morning tea or open day to launch Campaign Postcard and invite your local paper and MP's
• Get creative and share ideas!

Just email savetakeabreak@gmail.com if you would like to use our photo’s or have any questions.

Thanks for getting involved and your continued efforts so far!

Don't forget to have some fun doing it!!