About Lifeline South Coast (NSW)
Lifeline South Coast provides a 24-hour telephone counselling service for people on the coastal region from Helensburgh to the Victorian border. We are a local organisation with a local board focusing on our local community.
You can call 13 11 14 and speak to a trained and caring telephone counsellor about any issue, no matter how big or small.
We also run:
Lifeline Shops, which stock a huge range of clothing, books and homewares
Creditline Nowra, a financial counselling service
Location
| Administration: | 3 Court Lane, Wollongong NSW 2500 |
| Postal Address: | PO Box 404, Wollongong NSW 2520 |
| Telephone: | 02 4228 1311 |
| Facsimile: | 02 4228 0203 |
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| Nowra office: | 02 4422 7678 |
Vision
To be there for the community as life happens
The History of Lifeline
The idea of a Lifeline service began one night when a young man in desperation phoned Rev. Alan Walker, the Superintendent of Wesley Central Mission in Sydney. He had no home, no money - he said he wanted to die. Rev. Walker persuaded the young man to attend the following Sunday evening service, which he did. Rev. Walker was contacted early that following week regarding the death of this man. A note was pinned to the man and addressed to the Reverend. Two persons attended the funeral; they were the Rev. Alan Walker and his wife.
This sad experience pointed out the need for a crisis telephone service where trained and caring people could help those in desperate situations.
So Rev. Alan Walker began Lifeline and the first call was received on the 16th March 1963. The need for Lifeline has been justified time after time again, year after year, with well over 549,870 counselling calls to Lifeline throughout Australia in the past 12 months alone. Lifeline is now an international organisation and currently operates in 13 countries. There are 235 centres including 42 in Australia.
The History of Lifeline South Coast
Lifeline South Coast was established in Wollongong in March 1969 and the Nowra branch was opened in 1981. The Lifeline South Coast call catchment area is the coastal region from Helensburgh, south of Sydney to the Victorian border. The service is non-denominational and volunteer telephone counsellors come from a wide range of backgrounds.