Canberra Refugee Support Inc is a community based, not-for-profit organisation. We welcome and provide support to refugees who wish to settle in Canberra. We have no paid staff - all of our members work on a part-time basis in a voluntary capacity using their own facilities and transport. All funds raised by CRS are used to allow CRS to support refugees and asylum seekers to settle in Australia.

The role of Canberra Refugee Support is to provide support to refugees including activities to:

• establish an organisation and maintain a group of personnel who are trained and prepared to undertake humanitarian tasks in support of refugees
  

• assist refugees to settle in Canberra
  

• undertake advocacy
  

• from time to time provide policy advice as may be appropriate

We have no political or other affiliations.

Our aim is to help refugees become as independent as possible, as quickly as possible.

About our Logo

Designer: Fiona Cran

The bluebell motif, the floral emblem of Canberra, is a symbol of the community in which the support group operates. The flowers have other significance. They are symbols of new life and happiness and therefore embody the idea of a new start in life for the people that CRS and the citizens of Canberra welcome into the community. Flowers are also a kind of shared treasure or beauty, just as cultures and communities can be enriched by sharing and understanding. The flower is a gift, a universal symbol that everyone understands and it is a simple gift that doesn't exclude people because of language or money or situation.

The background colour of Navy Blue is formal without being hard. Navy Blue also is a calming colour, recalling the sea and the sky, linked with the idea the idea that we are all on the "blue" planet together under the same sky and joined by wide oceans. The block of Navy Blue represents the new city or structure that the refugees have been welcomed into.

The enclosed Circle has many meanings. It is firstly a symbol of hope, in the way that the rising sun brings new life each day. The white circular hollow also represents the support group and community that support the refugees. The circle is also a symbol of the cycle of learning, sharing, and growing. It symbolises the world - including both a small local "world" or family and the larger global world.