| 2023 | 2022 | |
| HEALTH | $ | $ |
| ASSISTANCE DOGS AUSTRALIA To help eliminate a two-year waitlist of clients, Assistance Dogs Australia will refine and strengthen their breeding process to ultimately place more assistance dogs for people with disabilities. ADA Breeding and veterinary partners will review process improvements impacting and electing suitable brood dogs, promoting genetic diversity, establishing breeding protocols, providing puppy socialisation, engaging volunteers, and tracking and analysing data. |
15,000 | 32,000 |
| AUSTRALIAN MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION Funding towards the further development and delivery of their NDIS Navigation Service. Mito have recently completed an 8-month pilot of this service. This will contribute towards the salary of a highly skilled NDIS Navigator who will continue with her successful work and will also update patient information and resources, including the ‘NDIS Navigation Toolkit’. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| BOBBY GOLDSMITH FOUNDATION Funding to purchase a new projector and IT equipment to increase the capacity and efficiency in delivering their online health and wellbeing programs. The online programs provide people living with HIV an opportunity to meet and connect as peers, to cultivate new skills, and to reach their personal goals. |
10,000 | – |
| BUTTERFLY FOUNDATION Butterfly Collective Lived Experience Education Hub hosts 630 members who have experienced an eating disorder or body image concern. Funding for technological support for a ‘lived experience educational hub’ page to be added to the platform. Embedded educational videos co-created by people with lived experience will be included to train members in a safe and meaningful way. |
15,000 | – |
| CAMP QUALITY Funding to support the official launch of an Alumni Program to support kids aged over 16. The Alumni Program aims to: provide meaningful ongoing connections and impact for graduated children and their families, build upon their support framework for active Camp Quality children and families through mentorship and support from someone who has experienced what they are going through, and create a path for graduates to become active members of their communities and future leaders. |
15,000 | – |
| CAREFLIGHT Funding support to construct a crash car simulator to train rural, regional and remote first responders on critical lifesaving skills such as extricating victims from a vehicle, lacerations, hemorrhages, and managing crush injuries. CareFlight’s Trauma Care Workshop community education program offers free trauma care training to help build community resilience in regional, rural and remote areas. |
15,000 | – |
| CENTRAL COAST KIDS IN NEED Funding for the ‘Born to Live’ Program alleviating the financial distress of Central Coast families with seriously ill children and children with disabilities. This program includes quality of life equipment and aids, high-cost prescriptions and formulas/feeds, supplements and home oxygen. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY ALLIANCE Gross-motor training for people with disability. Funding for an accessible treadmill and gross-motor resources for the Alstonville Therapy Centre to enable local people with disability access to therapy for endurance, fitness, coordination and independence. |
14,563 | 50,000 |
| CHRON’S AND COLITIS AUSTRALIA Funding to organise The Youth Empowerment Program (YEP!) in Sydney. The program is for young people aged 12-18 years living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) across metro and regional/rural NSW. This one-day event offers a new approach with a focus on how to manage IBD during key stages of adolescent life. |
12,300 | – |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS AUSTRALIA Cystic Fibrosis (CF) has life-long implications that people and their families deal with on a daily basis. The long hours spent taking medication, completing physiotherapy, and worrying about nutrition and exercise, is challenging. Cystic Fibrosis Australia (CFA) provides an app for free to anyone in Australia with CF (over 3,600) which helps manage all these daily tasks and rewards them for their ongoing adherence. This funding will support the cost of providing the app for free, including the rewards, as well as the ongoing costs of the app. |
15,000 | – |
| GUNAWIRRA ‘Feeling the Healing’ to equip Indigenous children with art tools for healing trauma and strengthening their cultural identity. This will benefit 68 preschool children aged 2-5 years at Jarjum Preschool Centre in Lismore. This project will promote connection to place, by resurrecting ancestral practices; introducing the children to painting, craft materials and local Aboriginal stories, and providing an emotional outlet for the children and developing their fine motor skills. |
20,000 | – |
| HEART RESEARCH AUSTRALIA Vulnerable plaque correlation CT vs OCT. Vulnerable Plaque is particularly unstable and predisposes heart attack. This research project is aiming to compare the diagnostic accuracy of two different modalities in the detection of vulnerable plaque: pericardial fat attenuation on CT coronary angiography (CTCA), a noninvasive modality, and optical coherence tomography (OCT), performed as part of invasive angiography, and currently the gold standard modality to detect unstable plaque. This project requires funding for the use of an external AI software entitled Cari-HEART, which is a software based at Oxford University. |
12,840 | 50,000 |
| INALA Funding to purchase two Portable Patient Hoists and one Emergency Patient Lift Cushion for people living with disability, who are dependent, and require the assistance of Carers to transfer from wheelchair to bed, and to assist with shower and toilet facilities. |
14,500 | 50,000 |
| LIFELINE DIRECT Free counselling service on the NSW Central Coast. Lifeline’s counselling service aims to provide an extension of Lifeline’s 13 11 14 Crisis Support and suicide prevention telephone service. This funding will provide for the delivery of 100 counselling sessions. |
15,000 | – |
| LITTLE WINGS Little Wings fly seriously ill children and their families from regional and rural NSW to receive life-saving treatment from the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network, The John Hunter Children’s Hospital and Royal Far West, reducing the family’s financial burdens and emotional stress. The funding will cover mission fees and will support an additional 8 flights, helping more children to have access to healthcare. |
15,000 | – |
| MIRACLE BABIES Funding for weekly NurtureTime sessions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. NurtureTime is in-hospital peer support for families going through the emotionally-challenging journey of watching their premature or sick newborn fight for their life in the NICU. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| MS PLUS (FORMERLY MS LIMITED) ‘Falls and Balance’ is a NSW-first group rehabilitation program, transforming the physical health of people living with neurological diseases which impair mobility, including multiple sclerosis (MS), caused by nerve damage. The program supports people who have experienced injuries as a result of falls, or are at high risk of such injuries. |
15,000 | – |
| OVARIAN CANCER AUSTRALIA Ovarian Cancer Australia’s free Exercise and Nutrition program supports and co-ordinates one-on-one access to an exercise physiologist and dietitian with oncology expertise for women living with ovarian cancer in NSW. Personalised plans are then developed based on individual needs and circumstances. |
15,000 | – |
| REDKITE Funding to provide vital emotional and mental health support to children in NSW with cancer, and their family members. Our social workers provide individual counselling, group support, information and resources by phone/online, to help all family members manage the overwhelming emotional and mental health impacts of childhood cancer on their lives. |
15,000 | 30,000 |
| ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION The Best Start project is a holistic approach to ensuring premature and critically-ill babies at The Royal, have the equipment required to make breast milk feeding easier, support mother and baby bonding, and help strengthen the family connection while a baby is in Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The project will help make providing babies with expressed breast milk easier by giving parents a specialised temperature-controlled bag so breast milk can be expressed at home and brought safely into NICU for their baby and a special ‘Gumnut Babies’ book as a keepsake representing their time in NICU. |
6,500 | – |
| SIR DAVID MARTIN FOUNDATION Triple Care Farm is a youth-specific residential AOD program located on 110 acres in the NSW Southern Highlands. Over 12 weeks the program provides the highest quality service incorporating holistic, innovative, evidence-based safe programs so young people can address the issues that are impacting on their ability to live an addiction-free life. This funding will help students who missed schooling with individualised lessons in: literacy, numeracy, cooking, barista, budgeting, job skills, photography, textiles, woodwork, land care, creative arts and music. |
15,000 | 50,000 |
| STREETWORK AUSTRALIA Building Mental Stealth is an empowerment program to support vulnerable young people experiencing mental health challenges including social isolation, anxiety, depression, suicide and self-harm. It is an early intervention and prevention program that pairs each young person with a positive adult role model, a Youth Case Worker. |
15,000 | – |
| STRONG MOTHERS This new project includes casework with pregnant mothers and their infants through group therapy and cultural awareness to heal trauma – past, intergenerational and present. Supervision for Health professionals, through seminars and two free books, ‘Treating Trauma During Motherhood’ and ‘Early Years on Nutrition’, as well as research of clinical work to create a model for dissemination in hospitals and clinics throughout Australia for working with vulnerable Aboriginal mothers. |
15,000 | – |
| THE TRUSTEE FOR RAISE FOUNDATION Raise Foundation Youth Mentoring programs prioritise younger students in public secondary schools who are most at risk of disengagement or poor wellbeing. By offering early intervention, evidence-based mentoring for young people in high schools with trained and trusted, independent adults they empower young people to grow through adolescence, believe in themselves and others, and shape a purposeful life. The young people in the program are supported over two school terms by a trained volunteer mentor and program counsellor. |
14,391 | 50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY The Tidda Talk program supports the social-emotional wellbeing and physical activity of Indigenous girls. Over 8 weeks the girls engage in weekly group sessions, co-facilitated with Indigenous community partners. The sessions are split between physical activity and Yarns on health and wellbeing topics. In addition, community facilitators are trained to deliver and evaluate the program, resulting in a sustainable community-delivered program. The funding requested will support over 80 girls in Babaayn, Kimberwalli, Glebe, and Wollondily and build community capacity for further expansion. |
15,000 | – |
| OTHER | – | 789,334 |
| TOTAL HEALTH | 360,094 | 1,146,334 |
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY | $ | $ |
| AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR ROBOTICS (ACFR) AND AUSTRALIA ROBOTIC INSPECTION AND ASSET MANAGEMENT HUB (ARIAM) Robotics in Schools: Education Outreach Program. As one of the world’s largest robotics research institutes, the ACFR wishes to empower young Australians with STEM-focused knowledge and skills. Using robotics this program will help primary and high school students develop skills in problem-solving, design, electronics and coding while connecting them with world-renowned experts. |
30,000 | – |
| ABCN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION This project supports three NSW students from Non-English-speaking backgrounds (NESB) in their first year of the Accelerate program in 2024. The unique three-year structured mentoring and financial Scholarship spans Years 11, 12 and the first year of further education/training/employment. Scholars are matched with dedicated corporate mentors and participate in regular, facilitated sessions and a two-day Leadership Summit. |
12,465 | 13,618 |
| BACKTRACK YOUTH WORKS Supporting vulnerable young people in the Armidale region who face complex, intersecting barriers to participating in mainstream education, training and employment. BackTrack helps them to engage in learning and training, prepare for employment and participate in their community. BackTrack’s education space will allow for breakout sessions and the funding will help to create a divided room, with a large screen TV and sturdy furniture. |
15,000 | – |
| CLONTARF FOUNDATION Funding the Aboriginal Boys education and employment engagement program to encourage seven additional boys to attend the Kurri Kurri HS academy which opened in 2022. Clontarf focuses on improving the lives of ATSI males through education, discipline, life skills and employment opportunities empowering them to become responsible, productive and proud members of society. |
10,000 | – |
| COUNTRY EDUCATION FOUNDATION This project is the next stage of an extensive ICT plan and focuses on fundraising. These activities will leverage existing systems, provide structure and best utilise records and data collection to improve donor management, the donor experience and increase fundraising capacity. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| ENGINEERING AID AUSTRALIA Since 1996 the EAA Indigenous Australians Engineering School program has been giving Indigenous students in Years 10, 11 and 12 the opportunity to learn more about the Engineering profession and its career opportunities. Funding towards the Data Collection Dashboard Project will develop a data collection dashboard that stores and displays collected researched information from past, present and future alumni. |
25,000 | – |
| GAWURA Speech Therapy Language and Literary Support sessions to address communication difficulties that can impact literacy and school success. The cost of these services is prohibitively high and therefore the service is out of reach for most families. This funding will assist with initial assessment of the newly arrived Kindergarten cohort, as well as additional sessions for those students who are deemed in need. |
15,000 | – |
| GIANT STEPS AUSTRALIA Funding towards the Outdoor Learning Program for Autistic Children to upgrade and expand their K-6 outdoor learning space with the installation of a new playground. This will include a multi play unit, a sand and water play area, 2 x rotating spinners, a double A-Frame swing and synthetic turf. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| HARDING MILLER EDUCATION FOUNDATION Harding Miller Education Foundation scholarships have a total value of $20,000 across the four years (Year 9-12), and include a high-quality laptop, high speed mobile broadband, IT support, online homework help, $2,500 of personal tutoring each year and a prepaid card for school essentials. Scholars also receive a personal coach for the four years and opportunities through their enrichment program. The funding will support the first year of a four-year scholarship for three under-resourced, high potential girls attending public high schools in Australia. |
10,000 | 14,650 |
| KARRKAD KANJDJI TRUST (KKT) Currently there is still no option for high school education in the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), west Arnhem Land. There is a cohort of 25 teenagers. Nawarddeken Academy’s High School funding will help to expand the Academy to be able to offer high school and vocational training to enable students to complete their On-Country education. |
15,000 | 50,000 |
| LEARNING LINKS In partnership with Liverpool Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG), Learning Links will deliver their innovative, early intervention Aboriginal Education Program for two school terms to eight Aboriginal children in a disadvantaged primary school in Liverpool. The program is built on a proven model of intervention to build children’s capabilities and confidence in the foundational skills of literacy and numeracy and will enable Learning Links to help Aboriginal students struggling with learning difficulties to receive the individualised and intensive support they need to learn, develop and thrive. |
14,800 | 14,800 |
| MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY The Study Without Stress (SWoS) program was designed to target the high levels of stress students face during their final years of high school. SWoS equips students with knowledge and tips to overcome unhelpful thinking styles, manage anxiety and problem-solve issues. This project will develop an online version of SWoS to increase access, and reduce time needed by teachers to deliver the program. This funding will help to develop the online version, transpose exercises from the current to the online version, and to use focus groups to ensure the online version meets the needs of the students. |
20,000 | 79,547 |
| PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION Gadgets for Scholars. To supply refurbished laptops to scholarship applicants who are eligible to receive scholarships but unable to purchase basic items needed for their education. Most applicants are Refugees and Indigenous students who come from financially challenged families. |
10,000 | – |
| SDN CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES SDN’s pioneering scholarships help to reduce financial barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, allowing them to access quality education and care for their children in the year before school. The scholarship enables a child to attend an SDN Centre two days a week for a period of twelve months. |
12,000 | 12,000 |
| SYDNEY MOTORSPORT – THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Funding towards Sydney Motorsport Electric Vehicle equipment and setup needs required to safely undertake high level electrical work, and to enable the development of gearboxes that will transfer power from electric motors to wheels. Electrical safety equipment is essential for all future electrical work and will allow Sydney Motorsport to create a safe and adequate environment for testing and experimentation. The equipment will also include various components required for the construction of electrical systems. |
25,000 | 47,684 |
| SYDNEY STORY FACTORY To improve the educational outcomes of 100 marginalised Western Sydney students, who still require support to recover from the impacts of the pandemic. Delivering four 7-week creative writing programs at two underresourced schools. Teaching staff and volunteers work with students to help them build their confidence, writing skills and literacy. Programs will culminate in the publication of student work. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| TEACH FOR AUSTRALIA Building resilient teachers for students in need through a unique two-year work and study Leadership Development Program (LDP). They recruit, train, support and empower top talent to become ‘Associates’ Teachers, completing a Masters in Education while also working in a low-socioeconomic school in NSW. The funding will deliver the Berry Street Education Model; providing practical tools, insights and understanding to manage student welfare and wellness, in schools and communities most in need. |
10,000 | – |
| THE AUSTRALIAN LITERACY AND NUMERACY FOUNDATION To fund the expansion of the Share-A-Book (SAB) program in Aboriginal Preschools on the Mid North Coast of NSW. The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation will source and distribute high-quality culturally-sensitive, age-appropriate books to four Aboriginal Preschools. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| THE GIRLS AND BOYS BRIGADE To support the operation of a Homework Program for children experiencing complex social, financial, and educational disadvantages. Program clients will receive access to a dedicated space equipped with technology, books, stationery, and volunteers to support them in learning skills foundational to their success in school and life. The funding will be used to replace the old and outdated tables and chairs in their homework room with a whiteboard table and to help support operational costs. |
15,000 | – |
| THE SMITH FAMILY DARLINGHURST Student2student is an evidence-based, peer-to-peer reading program in which young struggling ‘Readers’ aged 8-14 are paired with trained older, volunteer student ‘Buddies’. This funding will help 25 students from the regional NSW communities of Nowra and Tamworth, to improve their reading skills and support them to help overcome educational inequality. |
10,000 | – |
| VISION AUSTRALIA ‘Pathway Players’ ensuring access and promoting inclusion. Funding for the replacement of CDs currently included in their Feelix Library Kits with new Pathway Players. Established in 2003, VA’s Feelix Library is a unique service, specifically designed for children who are blind or have low vision aged 0-7. Feelix kits include: an original storybook annotated with braille (Grade 1 and 2), an audio version of the story (currently using CDs), tactual items and a tactile handbook of the story’s themes, assisting children to develop strong literacy, numeracy, braille and tactile skills for lifelong participation. |
15,000 | – |
| YOUTH OFF THE STREETS Funding towards “Step Up” Alternative Education Program, supporting students in Stage 6 towards achieving the HSC, Vocational Education and Training or finding employment. Providing health and wellbeing initiatives, employability training and certification, sport and recreation, a youth worker who is able to offer practical and emotional guidance, service learning to strengthen students’ connection to community, and programs developing skills for independence e.g. financial literacy, self-care, barista and white card. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| OTHER | – | 278,661 |
| TOTAL EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY | 339,265 | 585,960 |
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| ENVIRONMENT | $ | $ |
| AUSSIE ARK Installation of solar power and battery storage for a shipping container containing the Animal Care/Vet Block facility at the Barrington Wildlife Sanctuary. This will enable 24-hour monitoring, care and treatment for the animals on site. Recent health checks of the koala population detected that some of their Koalas have chlamydia. To ensure a healthy breeding program Aussie Ark will need ongoing monitoring and, in the future, treatment. The facility will also benefit all of the endangered species in the Sanctuary. |
40,000 | – |
| AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM TRUST Australia has already lost at least four species of frog, with another 40 that are threatened with extinction. In 2021, thousands of dead frogs were reported to the Australian Museum across the country. The Australian Museum is now leading a collaborative investigation into the nature and impact of this event to better understand the science behind this die-off and curb the crisis facing our unique frog species. The funding will help to employ a part-time Frog Mortality Event Research Assistant to support this time-critical investigation. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| AUSTRALIAN WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY Funding towards AWC’s important biodiversity monitoring program ‘Ecohealth’ at Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary. Ecohealth is a game-changing initiative transforming the way conservation is delivered in Australia, helping to save species from extinction and restore threatened wildlife populations. The program involves extensive annual field surveys (7000 trap nights and 4000 transect surveys) designed to monitor key species, environmental process and threats to wildlife and habitat at Scotia. The data recorded in these efforts is crucial for determining successes and informing future planning. |
15,000 | 40,000 |
| INVASIVE SPECIES COUNCIL Funding the National Education Campaign – Saving Wildlife from Invasive Species, to develop and write content for a national interactive digital education campaign publishing the latest data on invasive species. Historical information, scientific evidence and narratives will communicate how the top 20 invasive species arrived and spread, their key characteristics, the unique characteristics of key impacted native species and ecosystems negatively impacted and how to revive native species through their management. |
25,000 | – |
| MULLUMBIMBY CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION The accessibility upgrades of the Mullumbimby Community Gardens include the installation of a deck and ramp providing access to the site office, repair of the existing toilet facilities and upgrade to pathways throughout the site. These works will allow people with limited mobility to access essential facilities throughout the site. They will provide a safe and inclusive place for the whole community to meet, learn, celebrate and connect. |
15,000 | – |
| SYDNEY UNIVERSITY SIMS Oysters are essential to the health of Sydney Harbour; they filter the Harbour removing pollution and help to create a healthy environment for the thousands of Sydney residents that interact with the Harbour each day. Oysters as a reservoir for “superbugs” in Sydney Harbour Project will use cutting-edge science to determine if antibiotic pollution is entering Sydney Harbour and creating a superbug health risk in our oysters. |
15,000 | 9,091 |
| THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Funding to install upgraded Australian Mountain Observation Network equipment at two of the Australian Mountain Research Facility’s high-elevation sites in Kosciusko National Park. AMON sensor arrays deliver key transdisciplinary data on effect of climate on landscape and ecosystem processes. An Alpine Genomic Biodiversity assessment will leverage this important data and better understand the ecology of the Snowy Mountains. |
35,000 | – |
| OTHER | – | 327,500 |
| TOTAL ENVIRONMENT | 160,000 | 391,591 |
| 2023 | 2022 | |
| SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS | $ | $ |
| ASYLUM SEEKERS CENTRE Safe, stable housing for asylum seekers whose households have been financially impacted by the pandemic with rent arrears and critical debts. They have no access to financial support and are facing the risk of homelessness and eviction. The funding will help families seeking asylum to remain in safe, stable housing where they can connect socially with their community and gain independence. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| AUSTRALIAN REFUGEE VOLUNTEERS INCORPORATED ARV’s mission is to bring joy and social inclusion to the lives of children from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds by providing monthly excursions and camps that offer essential recreational and developmental opportunities. ARV’s Kids program is for children aged 7-10 (currently 15 kids). On monthly program days, children are buddied up with volunteers on a 1:1 basis to ensure they engage with, and enjoy the program, and help them express themselves or resolve any challenges. They also run one camp per year. The funding will pay for one full year of the Kids program. |
15,000 | – |
| AUSTRALIAN THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE Funding to provide 100 students from Western Sydney, who have economically disadvantaged, cultural and linguistic backgrounds with the opportunity to partake in an enriching theatre experience. The children will spend the day with ATYP – travel to Sydney to see a live theatre performance and take part in a workshop with an ATYP teaching artist. |
15,000 | – |
| AUSTRALIAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA In July, Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO) welcomed 90 of Australia’s finest young musicians to Sydney for AYO Winter Season. Musicians engaged and learnt from leading orchestral musicians in rehearsals and workshops, as well as connected with diverse audiences in both Canberra and Sydney. In collaboration with Lior and Lou Bennett AM, participants and audiences experienced a moving performance focused on Yorta Yorta elder, William Cooper. The funding provided access for disadvantaged participants; as well as assisting with production costs, such as venue and artistic fees. |
15,000 | – |
| BANGARRA DANCE THEATRE Funding to revisit the community in Wulli Wulli (Central Queensland) to close the cycle of the Rekindling program, assessing the impact of the program, and reconnecting with the participants, their families and the Community. Through intergenerational activities and collaborative learning, the program works with young people to re-ignite a passion for traditional knowledge and language, establishing contemporary learning pathways that ensure culture is shared and continued. |
15,000 | 50,000 |
| BARNARDOS AUSTRALIA The Bundaleer Brighter Futures program provides support to disadvantaged families living on the Bundaleer Housing Estate in Warrawong, NSW. The program aims to ensure children and young people on the Estate are safe from harm, engaged with education, have positive role models, are healthy and active, emotionally stable, and connected with the broader community. |
15,000 | 46,500 |
| CHILDREN’S CHARITY NETWORK Funding to send a team of leading Australian Children’s Authors to conduct 40 workshops in the schools in the Gunnedah region of NSW. Working with schools to give all the children age-appropriate books and art materials. We will provide a holistic early childhood program that employs strategic, innovative art and literary interventions workshops in an effort to redress poor educational outcomes that have become entrenched and generational in some communities. |
15,000 | – |
| FITTED FOR WORK The Women’s Economic Empowerment Program will provide women in Western Sydney with the knowledge and resources to gain employment and build better futures. Women will access their Job Ready Hub with bespoke support for job applications through 1:1 CV review, mock interviewing, personal outfitting, digital up skilling, LinkedIn workshops, Emerge Program (confidence building), Mentor Programs and She Works Program (employment opportunities). |
15,000 | – |
| FOODBANK NSW AND ACT Funding Foodbank NSW and ACT Regional Pop-up Markets. Foodbank works with its network of community partners in disadvantaged rural and regional communities, to supply fresh, healthy and nutritious fruit and vegetables to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity. Foodbank is required to purchase the fresh produce for these pop-up markets, as food donations can be more ‘surprise’ chain than ‘supply’ chain. Generous funding will provide a welcoming space for the local community to have access to around 5000 kilograms of fresh produce and provide more than 300 families with enough fresh food for a whole week. |
15,000 | 50,000 |
| FOOD LADDER To fund two state-of-the-art hydroponic, climate-controlled Food Ladder Greenhouse Systems to disadvantaged and/or remote schools in Australia to tackle the food security crisis and allow communities to control what they are planting and in turn eating, empowering the community to make better and more sustainable health choices. This will include all infrastructure delivery, and all respective training and education programs to help communities learn about nutrition, health, and sustainable farming practices. |
50,000 | – |
| GONDWANA CHOIRS (PREVIOUSLY GONDWANA VOICES) Funding will support the National Choirs Bursary Fund. Young singers will meet at University of Sydney’s Women’s College to undertake intensive rehearsals and electives led by leading music educators and artists. ‘Voices of Angels’ is their premiere performance each year – a festive collaboration between their National Choirs and Sydney Children’s Choir at the Opera House. It is a culmination of Gondwana’s work over the year, presented to an audience of thousands. |
15,000 | – |
| GUIDE DOGS ASSOCIATION OF NSW/ACT Funding to purchase 20 mainstream multipurpose technology kits, which includes one iPhone, one screen protector and one protective case to distribute to Clients with low vision or blindness at no cost to the recipient. Training will also be provided to the Clients to ensure they are able to use the technology to improve their independence. |
14,413 | – |
| HOLDSWORTH ST COMMUNITY CENTRE WOOLLAHRA Hidden Messages is a series of drama workshops, in partnership with Milk Crate Theatre, for people living with intellectual disability. Focusing on a range of dramatic skills e.g. movement, verbal and non-verbal expression, creative communication, developing ideas, storytelling and teamwork to deliver a shared project. Funding goes towards running workshops, developing stories and delivering a live performance. This will be shared with the community to give insight and create social awareness and change perceptions. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| HUMAN NATURE ADVENTURE THERAPY This project will fund reusable safety equipment (e.g. life jackets, rashies) so disadvantaged young people don’t miss out on group activities just because they can’t afford their own gear. It will also deliver 50 Adventure Packs containing essential outdoor supplies so they can have lifelong positive adventures in nature. |
12,000 | – |
| INFANTS’ HOME ASHFIELD Delivery of a free weekly playgroup for children aged 0-12 months. The playgroup will particularly support parents who are socially isolated, struggling with the transition to parenthood or experiencing challenges in caring for, bonding with, or understanding their baby. Funding will support facilitation, evaluation and planning of the playgroup by a Child and Family Health Nurse and a Playgroup Assistant, program supervision, the purchase of resources and equipment and marketing of the program. |
14,845 | – |
| KARINYA HOUSE HOME FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES Funding to support the installation of solar panels and associated battery storage on three residential cottages within their facility, providing safe supported accommodation for vulnerable women who are pregnant or have a newborn baby. Women residing in the cottages often also have more than one child and are therefore not able to stay in the Karinya House shared accommodation facility. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| MAHBOBA’S PROMISE INCORPORATED Funding to establish a catering service featuring Afghan cuisine to customers in Sydney.This social enterprise will focus on creating sustainable jobs and providing vocational education for Afghan refugees recently resettled in the area. The funding will cover the costs associated with start-up and ongoing operations, including equipment, supplies, and employee training. |
10,000 | – |
| MILK CRATE THEATRE Funding to develop and stage SOLACE, a new immersive performance work in partnership with Stalker Theatre/Box of Birds, that physicalises the thought, physiological impulse and sensation that drives and pursuits of comfort. The work will be devised by Milk Crate Theatre Collaborative Artists through weekly workshops led by professional artists where they will gain advanced skills in performance making and storytelling before staging the work for the wider community. SOLACE was staged by Milk Crate Theater in October 2023 in Sydney. |
15,000 | 12,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CHILDHOOD GRIEF The NCCG’s Adventure Weekend for Bereaved Boys brings together 15 boys aged 8-16 years old, who have lost a parent, for a two and a half day program of tailored physical challenges and therapeutic activities. This unique program is led by the NCCG’s professional counsellors and trained volunteers at an adventure camp centre in NSW. It is designed to complement their individual counselling program. |
11,630 | – |
| ODYSSEY HOUSE NSW Funding to help enhance the new Odyssey Family Recovery Centre at Eagle Vale NSW to meet the unmet demand from parents, including pregnant women. The funding will equip and furnish the family cottages and the outdoor space of the Centre, covering costs on cots, storage and bookshelves, outdoor furniture, play equipment and storage sheds. |
15,000 | – |
| PROJECTKINDNESS INCORPORATED ProjectKindness works to enrich people’s lives by providing Kindness Hampers to ensure they have enough food to eat and essential household items to live comfortably. Each Kindness Hamper includes groceries, children’s toys and books, essential household items, smaller furniture items, baby essentials, baby and children’s clothing and school supplies. |
15,000 | – |
| REFUGEE ADVICE AND CASEWORK SERVICE Funding towards a dedicated program providing critical legal services to help people apply for asylum who identify as LGBTIQA+ and who fear persecution if they return to their home countries. For people needing to seek safety in Australia but fear information will be disclosed to their home country’s Government or their family, or they are reluctant to disclose personal details due to cultural differences and language barriers. RACS is a trusted organisation providing a safe place for people ready to disclose their sexual orientation or identity. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| RELOVE ReLove is an environmental and social charity that rescues good quality furniture and household items from corporate relocations, companies with excess stock and the community. ReLove supports people in crisis to furnish their homes as they access safe housing; currently helping 10-15 families per week, operating 3 days per week. The 1000 Homes Project aims to scale their support model from 3 days to 4 days per week to furnish the homes of 1000 families. The funding will support additional warehouse and delivery staff to expand and reach more families in crisis. |
15,000 | – |
| SOLVE-TAD DISABILITY SERVICES Funding to empower volunteers to support people with disabilities. A volunteer training program combining online accessible video modules and face-to-face training. Training will include first-aid, social etiquette with clients, electronics, biology, product design, 3D printing, laser cutting, upholstery, welding/metal work, Fusion 360 and solid works and bicycle development. |
15,000 | – |
| SYDNEY WRITERS’ FESTIVAL Russ the Story Bus is a repurposed school bus that has been converted into a moving children’s library. Russ travels to disadvantaged schools in Western Sydney and regional NSW over a two-month tour, reaching over 8,000 primary school children annually. Russ delivers a creative space for children to engage in workshops with visiting authors, listen to stories, hear an author talk about their craft and most importantly, to choose a book to take home. The funding will help to purchase books for the students to take home. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| SYMPHONY FOR LIFE FOUNDATION Symphony For Life provides free, community-based, after-school music education to children. The focus is on children who have never had the chance to play or own an instrument, often from less privileged and diverse ethnic communities. Children are loaned musical instruments to encourage ownership, and to participate in individual and group classes. The children are taught by professional musicians. Children will also attend an annual summer camp and are often invited to perform at community events at Westfield Parramatta. |
25,000 | – |
| TALDUMANDE YOUTH SERVICES Floor renovation at Taldumande Refuge for victims and survivors of forced marriage. Taldumande Youth Services (TYS) supports vulnerable and homeless children and young people aged 12-24, and their families, across Greater Sydney. On any given night Taldumande has 71 children and young people in residence. TYS offer two Freedom and Equity programs which currently support eleven young victims and survivors of forced marriage, five of whom are currently residing in Taldumande tailored ‘A New Pathway’ accommodation program situated in Ryde. This project will remove existing flooring and install hybrid planks to the 168m2 fivebedroom property. |
15,000 | – |
| TAREE POLICE AND COMMUNITY YOUTH CLUB (PCYC) Heart to Heart is an art-based welfare program, with a target group of teenage girls aged 12-16, who present with various risk factors. Risk of self-harm, disengagement from education, homelessness, risk of early entry into the criminal justice system, physical, psychological or sexual abuse. Each program runs for eight weeks, with a three-hour program session on eight consecutive Fridays. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| THE AUSTRALIAN BALLET Funding for The Australian Ballet’s Education and Outreach Program. A series of activities to improve the educational outcomes, arts experience and career-readiness of children and young adults across Sydney. This includes the Access Program for children with disabilities at Sydney Opera House – a program for schools to take part in workshops and attend a relaxed performance in the Utzon Room; and True Grit – in partnership with Lifestart, a year-long program of arts training and personal development for young adults with disability, culminating in a creative residency at Sydney Opera House. |
15,000 | 25,000 |
| THE BELL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY Funding to support In The Round, Macbeth. In The Round is a series of video Shakespeare resources for Australian schools, currently in creative development with Bell Shakespeare. Designed to fulfil curriculum needs in a rich, on-demand digital format, the videos will ensure all Australian students have access to a Shakespearean performance, regardless of their geographic location or socioeconomic challenges. |
25,000 | – |
| THE BOWER RE-USE AND REPAIR CENTRE CO-OPERATIVE (THE BOWER FUND) Funding of the House to Home Project. The Bower partners with humanitarian service organisations in identifying the needs of refugees, survivors of domestic violence and those previously homeless to outfit their accommodation with household items. The funding will enable them to outfit over 50 homes of struggling families delivering the goods they need to their door at no cost, an essential service in this time of housing insecurity. |
15,000 | – |
| THE FOOTPATH LIBRARY The Footpath Library provides a weekly service at Martin Place where people experiencing homelessness can meet, connect through conversation and have access to books and reading glasses. The funding will pay for pocket-sized notebooks, pens, puzzle/word books. “A notepad/pen is so important; our readers have a place to write down their appointments, keep track of things and journal their thoughts.” |
2,000 | 15,000 |
| THE MARMALADE FOUNDATION Funding to meet the food budget at Lou’s Place. This coming year, with a 40% increase in the number of women they support, Lou’s Place aims to provide approximately 8000 nutritious homemade meals that are cooked from scratch by the team of wonderful volunteers, and served in a caring and safe environment. |
14,900 | 15,000 |
| THE NORTHCOTT SOCIETY Funding to create and equip a sensory space in Campbelltown where adults with disability can experience the therapeutic benefits of sensory stimulation as a strategy to refocus or relax. The project will transform a drab multiple-use room through a nature-based design, including specialised furniture, a light box, optics and projection, sounds, textures and an array of sensory objects. The upgrade will encourage play and relaxation and empower users to discover techniques for managing and processing emotions to help keep them calm. |
15,000 | 14,000 |
| WESTERN SYDNEY ORCHESTRA PROJECT WestPhil and STARTTs will provide free orchestral music lessons for 30 refugee children whose previous training in music was disrupted due to war and whose families are rebuilding their lives in Western Sydney. This project culminates in masterclasses for refugee musicians, a gala performance in December, and pathway to further future involvement with WestPhil. |
25,000 | – |
| OTHER | – | 558,320 |
| TOTAL SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS | 564,788 | 875,820 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 1,424,147 | 2,999,705 |