Queensland

​Since 1925 there have been thirty-eight Toc H Branches in Queensland, most of them in country towns. Notable dates, events and projects have been:
  • 1925

    Brisbane Branch started and received its Christopher Lamp.

  • 1927

    Toc H members took children from the Royal Brisbane Children’s Hospital to the Brisbane Exhibition – “The EKKA Outing”. This has continued to this day.

  • 1928

    Three hundred children were entertained at a Christmas Party.

  • 1929

    Moves were made towards setting up a Blood Transfusion Service.

  • 1931

    Townsville Branch members brought a number of children from Richmond and Cloncurry to Townsville for medical treatment and a holiday by the sea. This was the beginning of The Royal Queensland Bush Children’s Health Scheme.

  • 1943

    Toc H Services Clubs were opened in Cairns (Talbot House) and in Townsville.

  • 1947

    Toc H hosted the first Midnight Service on ANZAC Eve at the Shrine of Remembrance in Brisbane.

  • 1971

    Coungeau House, on Bribie Island, was bought by Toc H and became a Holiday Home for people with disabilities and people in need.

  • 1981

    Senator Neville Bonner, Australia’s first Aboriginal Senator, was a member of Toc H. He strongly supported the movement’s ethos, and officially opened the St Paul’s School Toc H Branch.

  • 1992

    Toc H was re-established successfully in Townsville and Cairns.

  • '05-07

    Toc H held multicultural youth forums in Brisbane

  • 2013 -

    Toc H Brisbane Branch partnered with Childhood Cancer Support to hold camps and Christmas parties for Children and their families living with cancer.

  • 2015

    Toc H commenced holding Picnic in a Park for migrants and refugee.

Over the years Toc H members in Queensland undertook a wide range of worthwhile community projects – making scrapbooks for people suffering from dementia, helping with an ‘Agoonaree’ (camps for scouts with disabilities), organising Youth Forums, visiting children in hospital and delivering toys at Christmas and Easter Eggs on Easter Sunday, organising concerts in Homes, visiting people in hospitals and Nursing Homes and taking them on outings, helping at camps and functions organised by the Childhood Cancer Support Group and fostering the ‘Spirit of ANZAC’.
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Coungeau House on Bribie Island.
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The Toc H Summer Camp in Townsville – 1934