From its very beginnings in 2004, the annual Asylum Seeker Resource Centre Benefit has been bringing together comedy festival artists, music and laughter to raise over $30,000 for this important community organization.

This year is no different!

Somebody To Love - a Tribute to Queen

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All proceeds to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

On the 8th of June 2001 ASRC opening its doors in a tiny shop front in Footscray with only a few hundred dollars and a few boxes of food to our name. They have grown to be Australia’s largest asylum seeker organization. Despite growing a hundred fold since, in the number of people they help, the services they offer and the people who volunteer, they have not lost the ethos and spirit that they were founded on. At their heart the principle that they turn no one seeking asylum away They are a one of a kind place

Under the one roof you will find an extraordinary centre with more than 600 volunteers, 23 direct programs and over 2000 asylum seekers receiving our support. In their first 8 years alone we have assisted over 7000 people seeking asylum, provided more than 1 million hours of free help and turned no one in need away. All of this achieved without a single dollar of Federal Government funding and with more than 95% of their funding coming solely from the community and philanthropy. The ASRC does it all from direct aid, welfare, medical care to strengthening families and communities through community development to campaigning for social change.

They are about community.

Since 2001 the ASRC has helped play an important part (with many other refugee organizations) in creating real social change for asylum seekers including helping:

    * End the policy of children in detention
    * End of Temporary Protection Visas
    * End of charging people for being in detention
    * End of the 45 day rule
    * Closure of Manus Island and Nauru detention centres
    * Asylum Seekers in Victoria have access to free medical emergency care in our public health system

To find out more about ASRC - check out their website HERE!