Cairns Street Chaplains started working on the streets on Cairns in October 2013 offering a voluntary foot patrol service, to provide care and basic first aid to vulnerable night club patrons, on Friday and Saturday nights from 11pm to 5am. In July 2016, in...
IT’S 2013 and Esther Knight’s first shift with the Cairns Street Chaplains. A brawl breaks out near Reef Hotel Casino with “blood and guts, and everything everywhere”. “Ambulance, police – everybody was involved in it. There were people being carted off to hospital,”...
EVERY weekend for the past three years, a group of dedicated volunteers has patrolled the streets of Cairns to ensure the city is a safe place for locals and tourists alike. Chaplains keep on taking message to streets Revellers know that without fail Cairns Street...
… Distinguished by their purple and white polo shirts, the volunteer chaplains patrol the city’s entertainment precinct on Fridays and Saturdays between 11pm and 5am. On any night they might give first aid; care for people who are unconsciousness from...
THE men and women behind a service committed to making the streets safer for revellers in the CBD has celebrated 12 months on the job. The Cairns Street Chaplains have reflected on the year that was, having helped more than 500 partygoers safely get home since their...
LENDING a helping hand to a drunken reveller or two will be all in a night’s work for Cairns’ newly minted street chaplains. The service, which was originally founded in Brisbane by senior chaplain Lance Mergard 12 years ago, began in the CBD last night...
We are a group of specifically trained Christian volunteers from across all Church denominations who want to make a practical difference in the city of Cairns, by caring for alcohol and drug intoxicated or other vulnerable people and by helping keep the night club precinct safe.
