| 2024 | 2023 | |
| HEALTH | $ | $ |
| ASSistance DoGS Australia Training Resources for Assistance Dogs. Funding to fit out training rooms to simulate real-world stimuli for dogs. This includes technical tools for training, rest areas, grooming, and feeding spaces. By providing high-quality training there will be higher success rates, a reduced wait list for individuals with disabilities; enhancing dog effectiveness and improving client independence and well-being. |
7,500 | 15,000 |
| Central Coast Kids in Need Funding for the ‘Born to Live’ Program to alleviate 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, supplements, home oxygen, formulas and feeds. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Cerebral Palsy Alliance Funding for paediatric seating, including a Rifton Activity Chair, to provide adjustable, supported seating for fine motor activities, speech pathology and assessments; a Tumble Forms seat for floor-based positioning; and adjustable benches for therapy sessions where children don’t require back support. This seating equipment will enable greater engagement and participation in therapy for infants, toddlers and children at centres in Nowra, Ryde and Kingswood. |
15,000 | 14,563 |
| Inala Funding to purchase medical equipment that will improve the health and wellbeing of individuals living with disability. The Health Care Team have identified the need for each of their homes and day service centres to have lockable medication cabinets, blood pressure machines and oximeters. The purchase of a bladder scanner will enable them to be proactive in seeking specialist medical attention for participants, particularly those who are non-verbal and struggle to communicate discomfort and pain associated with bladder retention issues. |
14,770 | 14,500 |
| Lifeline Direct Psychological support for Volunteer Crisis. Each Crisis Supporter receives 30 hours of psychological safety support including loneliness on the crisis line, suicide in care, domestic and family violence, disasters and mental health, gambling and addiction. This funding will support the psychological safety of ten Lifeline volunteers in NSW. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Little WinGS Funding for ‘Medical Wings’ (MW), a project to enhance health literacy and access for women and girls in regional, rural, and remote (RRR) Australia. Funds will specifically support flights for clinicians to deliver eight targeted health clinics, directly addressing gaps in healthcare through education and accessible services. This initiative aims to reduce barriers, improve health outcomes, and increase confidence in the healthcare system among underserved communities. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Morris Children’s Fund Music Therapy in Schools for Specific Purposes assisting children with severe physical and multiple disabilities. They support a Music Therapy program at eight Schools for Specific Purposes in the St George, Sutherland, Bankstown and Western Sydney areas and two hospital schools St George and Sutherland. |
15,000 | – |
| Nextsense ‘Hearing Loss Pilot Program – Early Intervention’ is procuring audiology equipment for an outreach program targeting First Nations children they have been piloting successfully in regional NSW and Tennant Creek. Audiologists screen children aged 0 – 8 to identify hearing loss; initiate management of ear health issues; and educate communities, teachers, and the children on basic preventative care. To purchase a tympanometer, used for quick and reliable testing of middle ear conditions and the presence of fluid; especially useful when testing young children with otitis media, enabling earlier diagnoses of more children. |
15,000 | – |
| Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (South Eastern Section) Funding for Women’s Health – Mobile Primary Healthcare. Women in rural, remote, and regional NSW face real difficulties when trying to access female specific healthcare. Communities are in vital need of Primary Mobile Healthcare Clinics. For many women living in the outback, essential healthcare including cervical screenings and breast checks are not a priority simply because they are not accessible services as well as a lack of awareness. |
15,000 | – |
| 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 including literacy and numeracy, health and safety, barista and basic computer skills. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Street Side Medics Volunteer Training to help provide a free GP-led mobile medical service to those in the community who are vulnerable and experiencing homelessness. All of the clinics are delivered by volunteers who to date have barely had any support. Funding to deliver training sessions to support their work, keeping them engaged and satisfied in their roles, and to ensure the service to all patients is safe and of quality. |
15,000 | – |
| The Humour Foundation Clown Doctors (CDs) support the emotional wellbeing of children at Bear Cottage – the only children’s hospice in NSW to provide respite and end-of-life care for palliative-stage children and their families. During school holidays, purpose-trained CDs deliver meaningful, personalised connections to create moments of joy and laughter when it is most needed. The CD relationships are often ongoing from prior interactions at specialist children’s hospitals creating a sense of familiarity and normalcy. |
14,500 | 50,000 |
| 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 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 evidence-based, best practice program demonstrates statistically significant improvements in the four key outcomes. These are help-seeking, hope seeking, resilience and school engagement. |
15,000 | 14,391 |
| OTHER | – | 241,640 |
| TOTAL HEALTH | 187,270 | 360,094 |
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY | $ | $ |
| 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 combines workshops, corporate mentoring, peer mentoring, financial assistance, and workplace access to support the completion of Year 12 and transition to further education, training and employment. |
13,875 | 12,465 |
| Australian Indigenous Education Foundation The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF) Pathways Program provides support services that help Indigenous students make a successful transition from school to further studies or employment through tailored career guidance, skills-building workshops, mentoring, networking opportunities, and job placement assistance. The funding enables AIEF to support more students to participate in the program. |
25,000 | – |
| Australian Schools Plus Funding a range of projects that will improve the wellbeing outcomes of up to 3,000 children in disadvantaged NSW communities. They will identify up to ten schools looking to implement strategic, place-based projects that will support their students’ greatest wellbeing needs, to enable them to thrive at school and beyond. Together with project funding, schools will receive wraparound support from Schools Plus via coaching, evaluation support and connections to maximise impact and lift capacity of teachers and school leaders to implement the project. |
25,000 | – |
| AutiSM Spectrum Australia (ASPect) Aspect delivers support services for children and adults on the autism spectrum including; research, diagnostic assessments, therapy, adult community services and autism-friendly environmental evaluations. Funding for STEM program resources (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) for students on the autism spectrum at Aspect Schools in NSW. These resources include robotics, engineering and machinery, coding, and lego packs. |
15,000 | – |
| B Kinder Foundation In collaboration with Redfern Jarjum College, three tailored workshops for the 26 students (Years K-6) will focus on empathy, leadership and giving back. They will engage educators and mentors, leveraging their evidence-based kindness model. The workshop excursions at three local schools, alongside their peers and the student participation in the annual b kinder day (22 June), will enhance their social connections. |
7,733 | – |
| Cooinda Coonabarabran Funding to embrace and enhance the technology within this aged care organisation. Introducing a new SMART board which will enrich the care and education experience and provide enjoyment and purpose. Functions will include video capabilities, a large screen for those who are vision impaired and a trolley so that it can be moved around with ease. |
12,000 | – |
| Dymock’s Children’s Charities The Library Regeneration Program restocks disadvantaged school libraries and other important support centres with brand new books of choice. The school’s teaching staff select brand new books from a carefully curated catalogue of quality titles to ensure they receive the books most suitable for the needs of their students and curriculum, from Kindergarten to Year 9. |
15,000 | – |
| Giant StePS Australia Funding to renovate an old kitchen space into a purpose-built art room. Art lessons are an integral part of the curriculum at Giant Steps, led by in-house artist and educator, Pamela Honeyfield and written and developed by a team of teachers and therapists. Many of the students at Giant Steps are non-verbal and art is a valuable form of self-expression and communication, whilst promoting sensory experiences, imagination, social interaction, and fine motor development. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Karrkad Kanjdji Trust (KKT) This project will deliver full-time, bi-cultural, community-owned education to children living in the remote organisations of the Djelk IPA (Central Arnhem Land). Three community-owned schools will be delivered over three years, and they will operate under the governance of the Homeland School Company (HSC), an organisation established and led by Traditional Owners of the Djelk IPA. The HSC will follow the blueprint of the neighbouring Nawarddeden Academy, meaning philanthropic investment is required to raise the necessary start-up capital before the schools can qualify for government funding. |
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 |
| Life Education Australia ‘Narrowing the Regional Health Education Gap’ addresses escalating demand for children’s preventative health and mental wellbeing education in regional and rural NSW primary schools. Featuring new program delivery methods, content and interactive augmented reality, the project will facilitate preventive health programs for disadvantaged children in schools with a more than 20 per cent Indigenous population. The project will enhance children’s health literacy and behaviour through strategies to achieve better health outcomes, to help with sustainable and positive social change. |
14,400 | – |
| Murray Toola Damana (Many Hands) Funding assistance to implement an online Customer Relationship System. A specialist will provide an overview and training on how to implement and set up the CommunityXchange data. This funding will help to provide ongoing support. |
4,950 | – |
| Ngarrimilli Funding assistance to providing personally tailored mentoring and coaching for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander entrepreneurs and businesses. Ngarrimilli will work with 20 businesses in NSW to understand their needs, create a personally tailored support program and assign mentors to deliver the program. All mentors, contractors and experts engaged through the program are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, to help ensure the contribution to a sustainable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander economy. |
20,000 | – |
| Ozharvest Nourish is a bespoke 18-week hospitality-focused education program that offers a transformative pathway for young people aged 16-25 who typically face barriers to education and employment. Students graduate with a Certificate II in Cookery and the skills and confidence to pursue their next pathway – whether it’s returning to school, undertaking further qualifications and finding a job. Funding will enable up to twelve youths to undertake Nourish and graduate with a Certificate II in Cookery. |
15,000 | – |
| Project Youth Project Educate supports 10-12 young people per year, from disadvantaged backgrounds, that are missing from education, to re-engage in learning within an alternative education setting. Engagement in education is a key factor in producing equitable social and employment outcomes for young people, as well as being a protective factor for well-being. It will provide the opportunity to thrive in society thereby avoiding poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. |
14,290 | – |
| Reading Out of Poverty (rooP) Books from Birth provides early literacy skills to ensure school preparedness for children aged 0-5 and targets children from low socio-economic backgrounds, including migrants, refugees and indigenous individuals. The program focuses on new mothers living in disadvantaged areas within the Albury/Wodonga region. Children will gain access to a literacy starter kit which includes bilingual tools to engage their children in ready and early literacy activities. |
15,000 | – |
| 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 a SDN Centre two days a week for a period of twelve months and will have a significant impact on long term life outcomes for all children. |
12,000 | 12,000 |
| Teach for Australia Teach for Australia provides a highly effective Coaching and Mentoring program, delivered by Teaching and Learning Coaches (TLC’s) to support new teachers and their students reach their potential. To help fund a dedicated TLC as well as In-School-Mentors. This “wrap-around” support network ensures Associate Teachers will rapidly grow into excellent educators to serve in lower SES and regional schools. |
13,764 | 10,000 |
| The BacKPack Venture Storage Facility Upgrade. Due to increased support from the Community of donations of the essential school supplies for our school backpack drives, there is now a need to create an efficient storage system for this stock which would involve purchasing racking and storage boxes to optimize the space. |
5,570 | – |
| The Mirabel Foundation The Education Retention Program provides a tailored network of educational support for high-risk young people who are being raised by their grandparents as a result of parental drug use. It includes weekly educational tutoring for young people who are at a high risk of exiting school early coupled with specialist tutoring for young people with learning difficulties who require expert tutors trained in trauma support. The intervention aims to keep high-risk young people in school so that they reach their full educational potential. |
15,000 | – |
| The Project Rockit Foundation Funding to provide wrap-around support for two schools in regional NSW who are currently on the waitlist and express a critical need for PROJECT ROCKIT’s anti-bullying and wellbeing education. They will partner with each school to understand the complex needs of student cohorts, then deliver a series of face-to-face and online programs that tackle bullying (online and offline), foster healthy relationships and build resilience, enhancing school capacity and a culture for inclusion and respect. |
15,000 | – |
| The University of Sydney Wind Tunnel Upgrade. Funding to provide an uplift in capacity and a much-needed refresh of this critical lab space. Housed in the lab is a 7-foot x 5-foot (7’x5’) working section wind tunnel, a vital tool for aeronautical, teaching, research, and experimentation. The project funds would be used to install a new 50kW 3-phase AC motor and a variable speed drive controller, to bring the wind tunnel back into operation to create a conducive learning environment and allow easy operation of the wind tunnel by undergraduate students. |
25,000 | 55,000 |
| Vision Australia Funding to offer new clients an Amazon Smart Speaker to allow for the use of the speakers to be integrated into their service provision. The program is intended to help Australians with vision loss maintain their independence within their home, to assist with daily tasks, help them stay connected to their community, family, and friends, through voice-controlled access to both information and entertainment. The speakers will be customised according to specifications and will provide easy access to VA’s vital services. The room will promote positive emotions and connection for adults with intellectual disabilities. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Windgap Foundation This project is creating a sensory room at Windgap’s East Sydney Day Program at Botany Grove to promote mental wellbeing and connection for sixty day program participants – a community of adults living with intellectual disabilities. They will use the grant to purchase a ‘virtual magic room’ interior projection kit comprising a projector, laptop, software and animation library, a vibroacoustic sound system with sensory furniture that vibrates to the rhythm of music, voices or the soundtrack of any video. The room will promote positive emotions and connection for adults with intellectual disabilities. |
13,346 | – |
| Youth Off The Streets Funding towards Youth Off The Streets’ (YOTS) Step Up program offering an alternative education to disadvantaged young people who have disengaged from mainstream education. Support of this program will enable a supportive learning environment for young people at risk of or experiencing homelessness. In their pursuit of education, training and employment, this grant will further support students through wellbeing initiatives, counselling, appropriate attire, experiential outings, sports, recreation, and many other activities to enhance students learning outcomes. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| OTHER | – | 175,000 |
| TOTAL EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY | 371,728 | 339,265 |
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| ENVIRONMENT | $ | $ |
| Australian Marine Conservation Society To stem the flow of plastic into our oceans, it is critical to address the core issues that have incentivised the proliferation of hard to recycle plastics. Funding to help research and analyse success factors of international approaches to packaging regulation (such as mandatory targets for plastics reduction, plastic packaging taxes or levies, and packaging design standards) Funding to analyse public support for critical packaging control measures. |
15,000 | – |
| Bush Heritage Australia The Seeding the Future program provides aspiring conservationists with opportunities to learn best practice skills to build a career in the conservation sector. In 2024 the program will offer fifteen Paid Internships, twelve Student Placements for university students and twelve PhD Fellowship research placements. |
15,000 | – |
| Invasive Species Council Funding is sought to expand the 2023 funded National Digital Education Campaign to develop ten additional science based case studies on invasive species to be shared via the website. Research of historical information will be undertaken to write engaging narratives communicating how key invasive species arrived and spread, key characteristics, the native species and ecosystems negatively impacted and how their management will revive native species. ISC will reach a wide audience through digital outreach including social media, education consultants and existing networks. |
15,000 | 25,000 |
| Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation This is a project to expand infrastructure at Lizard Island Research Station (LIRS) by building an additional laboratory and an additional staff house. |
30,000 | – |
| Positive Change for Marine Life A case study through which community-led restoration can serve to protect and support native habitat corridors and strengthen catchment resilience. Funding to fence off stock from the waterway, prepare the site for restoration, fund cultural monitoring, purchase native riparian plants, and produce educational resources designed to encourage further restoration work. The project will enhance the capacity building program, creating a community of custodianship for the ongoing protection of the waterway. |
14,970 | – |
| Rainforest Rescue Rainforest Rescue (RR) has rescued 2 million+ square metres of unprotected rainforest and planted 350,000+ trees. The RR Native Nursery is set to be the Wet Tropics’ largest. Land and Nursery teams aim to grow and plant more seedlings than ever before thanks to innovative planting, growing and weed management methods, which the James N. Kirby Foundation has enabled RR to implement. Funding for a transportable irrigation system to plant more healthy trees year-round across more land. |
15,000 | – |
| Taronga Conservation Society Australia Taronga is committed to securing a future for koalas. Conservation science applied to koala health, reproductive biology and translocation, will help deliver translocation goals set out in the NSW Koala Strategy. The project aims to deliver eight translocations and establish four climate-resilient koala habitat sites to facilitate the translocation programs, as well as develop a conservation toolkit to bolster and sustain wild NSW koala populations. Funding will contribute towards the cost of tracking released koalas. |
31,400 | – |
| Thylation Foundation Funding for two interlinked projects, one metropolitan based and one for regional areas, that both tackle the conservation threat of unowned cats. Project 1 will advance the development and trial of SafePet™ tags with partner councils to provide, for the first time, an automated tool to track registered cats. Improved identification and containment of pet cats will enable councils and nearby National Parks to better manage feral cat populations. Project 2 will provide the sponsorship of one Felixer™ for 12 months to an onground conservation entity that protects endangered wildlife. This Felixer will be fitted with a SafePet tag detector to prevent any potential to target pet cats. |
30,000 | – |
| OTHER | – | 135,000 |
| TOTAL ENVIRONMENT | 166,370 | 391,591 |
| 2024 | 2023 | |
| SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS | $ | $ |
| Asylum Seekers Centre Funding to support the most vulnerable clients as they continue to face destitution and systemic injustice. ASC clients are experiencing increasingly complex mental and physical health concerns, family issues, homelessness, food insecurity and severe financial hardship. In addition to crisis payments, funding will support ASC’s Intensive Support caseworkers to advocate for vulnerable clients with other agencies to meet immediate needs. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Australian Refugee Volunteers The Program is an initiative aimed at empowering young individuals from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds, aged 13 to 18. This Program is dedicated to fostering linguistic, cultural, interpersonal, and life skills development among these teenagers. Through the Program’s monthly activity days, they offer target clients access to educational, developmental, and enjoyable experiences that contribute to their personal growth. |
7,500 | 15,000 |
| Australian Youth Orchestra Chamber Players is one of Australian Youth Orchestra’s core training programs. Twenty-five of Australia’s best young musicians in 2024 will participate in an intense week of training, rehearsals and performances in Goulburn. Six ensembles are created, consisting of two string quartets, a piano trio, a piano quartet, a wind quintet, and a brass quartet. They will be tutored by a diverse and talented team of professional tutors with support from the ensemble in residence, international award-winning Orava Quartet. The program culminates in two concerts at the Hume Conservatorium for their regional audiences. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| AutiSM CaMP Australia Funding to provide a professional development and training program for the NSW team. The program will have four main focuses: Low Arousal Approach and Co-Regulation; Neuro-Affirming Trauma Informed Care; Pathological Demand Avoidance and an Autism and Neurodiversity MasterClass. |
15,000 | – |
| Ballet Without Borders To organise seven, eight-week introductory courses for primary school age children in areas where learning ballet is beyond the financial reach of families. Ballet Without Borders was invited to return to several schools, and secured a year-long contract at Fairfield West Public School. They will collaborate with their First Nations partner by providing one course specifically for First Nations children; conducting one course in regional NSW and others at public schools in low socio-economic areas (ABS). |
8,400 | – |
| Barnardos Australia Yalmambirra Learning Centre (YLC) performs a vital role in enhancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) children’s access to education by providing opportunities for the students to attend and thrive at school. This free service operates in the afternoons during the school term offering educational support, tutoring, community connections and cultural activities and provides children a healthy breakfast before school, recess and lunch for thirty-five children and their families. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Bus Stop FilMS To offer an Accessible Film Studies Program for young adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability or Autism, aged 17+ for the first time in Coffs Harbour NSW, culminating in the production of a short film. Support to make this inclusively-made film providing the participants the invaluable opportunity to put into practice their classroom learning and collaborate with and be mentored by local filmmaking professionals. The film will be publicly screened at Bus Stop Film’s Coffs Harbour Showcase event in December 2024 highlighting local creative talent. |
15,000 | – |
| CaMP Breakaway Funding for youth and adult participants living with disability. Participants will be engaged in theatre shows, musicals and attendance at local arts organisations such as experiencing exhibitions at several local locations. This program would make the arts accessible for the participants by funding entry fees, show and theatre costs, whilst also hiring a local NDIS organisation to bring multiple Music Therapy sessions to Breakaway during the program. |
15,000 | – |
| CoMPany B Unwaged invites unwaged and marginalised communities to visit Belvoir Theatre completely free-of-charge for one show per production. Belvoir Theatre will present eight Unwaged performances, equivalent to 2,500 individual tickets. For many of the Unwaged community, these performances are an opportunity to connect with each other, a reason to get out of bed and sometimes a chance to see stories from their community presented on stage. |
25,000 | – |
| Dandelion SuPPort Network This project will provide new and preloved cots, bassinets, prams and car seats to disadvantaged families along with clothing, toys and linen, to improve the safety, wellbeing and development of the children. By removing some of the financial stress, they hope to help change their future and provide the best start possible for their children. |
15,000 | – |
| DirtyFeet The funds will support DirtyFeet’s inclusive dance program, ‘The Right Foot’, to create a more equitable and accessible arts environment for participants and staff. Funding will enhance the workshops by providing staff arts and disability training, new technology, sound, audio and video equipment, to develop accessible resources in-house, as well as obtaining various props and workshop materials to create a sensory-friendly atmosphere. |
15,000 | – |
| Eat Up Australia Funding to help purchase fruit, critical in improving the nutrition of children. Volunteer sandwich-making sessions and donations of materials, ingredients and snacks will help to keep program costs low |
15,000 | – |
| Fighting Chance Australia At Avenue Frenchs Forest, over 160 people with disability contribute to thriving microbusinesses and share in the profits, develop their individual skills and socialise with their teammates. One of the biggest barriers to community access for people with disability, especially wheelchair users, is accessible transport. Avenue Frenchs Forest has 34 people who use wheelchairs. Funding to help purchase an additional wheelchair accessible van, to empower social and economic inclusion. |
15,000 | – |
| Foodbank NSW and act The Regional Food Relief Coordinator pilot project identified the need to expand support to smaller and remote communities as a priority. As a first of its kind, they established the Regional Food Relief Fund that will provide financial assistance to community partners to assist them increase their food relief offering to local communities. Generous funding, managed by Foodbank on behalf of eligible community partners, will provide financial support to assist with start-up costs of equipment and food stock, or those facing financial strain and crisis to keep local pantries open. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Glebe Youth Service The kitchen refurbishment project will enhance the effectiveness of the Youth Service food security program. They currently have an industrial kitchen that is being used to operate the Food Circle program. The funding will help to purchase industrial equipment including a fridge, oven and stovetop. |
14,936 | – |
| HeaPS Decent To fund weekly music production workshops for at risk young people aged 14-21 years in inner Sydney. The project will provide mentoring and educational services for disadvantaged young people with high support needs. Participants develop creative, technical and personal skills through writing songs, playing instruments, producing and recording new music tracks. |
15,000 | – |
| Human Nature Adventure Therapy Technology for Disadvantaged Youth aims to bridge the digital divide. Funding to purchase laptops, mobiles and sim cards for disadvantaged young people accessing their services. This will soften critical barriers that young people living regionally face participating in education, training and employment; support services and social connection. |
14,999 | 12,000 |
| Indigenous Futures Foundation The First Nations Cultural Arts Project seeks to uplift Indigenous Australians by nurturing their artistic talents. Indigenous Futures Foundation aims to preserve, promote, and provide a platform for unique cultural expressions through art. This initiative will not only foster job opportunities and community cohesion but also highlight Indigenous heritage on a broader scale. Funding for art materials, an art facilitator, marketing, food, catering and exhibition venue hire. |
14,932 | 14,845 |
| Karinya House Home for Mothers and Babies Funding to progress the second stage of the sustainability infrastructure program. This involves the installation of thirty solar panels across the roof of the four transitional accommodation units within the Karinya House residential facility. Building on the installation of solar panels on the three residential cottages, which occurred with previous funding from the Foundation, the project will utilise the maximum roof space available for solar energy generation by extending the number of solar panels installed across the facility. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Milk Crate Theatre PATHWAYS is a unique developing artist program, offering people with lived experiences of homelessness, mental health challenges, and disability, rightful access to skills development and visibility as makers, performers, and producers. Leveraging local grassroots creative talent, PATHWAYS offers mentorship, masterclasses, technical support, script development, and industry networking, fostering skill growth and enabling the creation of new performance works. The program culminates in an installation of creative works, establishing lasting pathways for future cultural and community engagement. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| National Centre for Childhood Grief The NCCG provides successful Adventure Camps for Bereaved Girls and Boys aged 8-16 years, who have recently experienced the death of a parent. These camps create a tailored clinical and social environment in which children can learn about their grief, decrease a common sense of isolation, and build coping skills and resilience following the deep trauma of a parent’s death. This project is targeted to develop new, enhanced clinical counselling and activity programs for ongoing use in the Girls Camps, then to test and evaluate these new programs in a 3-day Girls Camp. |
14,470 | 11,630 |
| Orange Sky Funding to partially support the Kempsey laundry pod operations. Orange Sky’s mission is to positively connect communities by offering free laundry and shower services and non-judgemental conversation in metro, regional, and remote areas, assisting people experiencing homelessness or without adequate laundry resources. The metro and regional services are volunteer-driven, and remotely partnering with communities to generate employment opportunities. |
15,000 | – |
| ProjectKindneSS ProjectKindness works to enrich people’s lives by providing Kindness Hampers to ensure they have enough food to eat and essential household items. 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 | 15,000 |
| Refugee Advice and Casework Service This Program provides refugees in Australia with specialised legal support to apply for visas for their immediate family members to join them here in safety. These are family members who they have been separated from in the journey of seeking asylum. For culturally and linguistically diverse people with limited financial resources whose first language is not English, access to free legal support, with interpreters for accurate and respectful support to assist with this complex and difficult process, is invaluable and can be life changing. |
7,500 | 15,000 |
| Roundabout Canberra The Regional Wellbeing Kids Project will support the safety and wellbeing of children in regional areas where there is a great deal of need for support, and limited services. The focus will be on the South Coast, Goulburn, Cooma, Harden and Queanbeyan. Funding will be utilised to cover resources to manage and pack orders, preparation of orders for delivery by volunteers, and the purchase of replacement parts for donated pre-loved goods. |
14,983 | – |
| Royal District Nursing Service Trading as Bolton Clarke Funding for the Good Samaritan Fund; to assist seventy clients to purchase a range of essential items including medical supplies and specialty equipment; hire or purchase of medical equipment; provision and repair of reading glasses; purchase of essential appliances, payment of medical bills and food vouchers. |
25,000 | – |
| Sisters of Charity In partnership with The Salvation Army’s Trafficking and Slavery Safe House and Salvos Housing, this Modern Slavery Transitional Housing Program was established to fill a gap by providing long-term housing solutions for survivors. This unique 5-step model provides survivors with accommodation that is tailored to individual needs and is designed to overcome the barrier of entering the rental market experienced by people who have no previous rental or employment history. |
30,000 | – |
| Story Factory Funding will deliver creative writing programs to marginalised young people in Western Sydney, empowering them to reach their full academic and personal potential. Each week, expert teaching staff and dedicated volunteer tutors will guide students through scaffolded writing activities designed to inspire even the most reluctant learners, while building their literacy, confidence and long-term wellbeing. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Sydney Writers’ Festival Russ the 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 10,000 primary students annually. Russ delivers a creative space for children and aims to provide high quality inspirational learning experiences to young people with limited access to books and literary initiatives. Funding to purchase books for the students to take home. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| SyMPhony for Life Foundation 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) This project will bring two new intakes into the Program. One intake will be from Toongabbie and will comprise students who are on the Waiting List. The current Toongabbie students are part-funded by a previous grant that was so successful that it generated the Waiting List. The second intake will be from Constitution Hill, a suburb of social and financial disadvantage. The funding will cover staff costs. Musical instruments are from the Symphony For Life inventory and venues are free of charge. |
15,000 | 25,000 |
| The Bower Re-use and Repair Centre Co-operative (The Bower Fund) House to Home new Distribution Centre. This project aims to vitally support vulnerable and disadvantaged families by provisioning repurposed household goods and furniture and the setting up of an electronics kit for use in social housing or newly housed people who otherwise would be homeless. Funding to help set up a storage area and distribution centre, including an area for safely testing white goods and electronics. |
15,000 | 2,000 |
| The Marmalade Foundation Funding to meet the food budget for the financial year. Due to the steady increase of women accessing the free meals at Lou’s Place and the rise in grocery costs, the budget has increased by 50%. There is now a dedicated staff member, rather than a volunteer who oversees the cooking roster and ordering of supplies, therefore a small administration fee has been added to the food budget. Lou’s Place operates on a food budget of $600 per week and this year will provide over 10,000 nutritious homemade meals. |
20,000 | 14,900 |
| The Smith Family Darlinghurst The Smith Family’s SmArts program will give a unique opportunity to creative young people from Wagga Wagga who face financial and physical barriers to the Arts. This life-changing program is delivered as a four-day intensive. It involves creating art with experienced practitioners, visiting artistic institutions, engaging with professionals on career paths and empowering students with information to nurture their creative interests. For example, students may visit a museum, learn new painting techniques, hear about a fine arts career and be connected to a youth centre with free art supplies. |
14,886 | 15,000 |
| The Stella Prize Stella Day Out is a one day free festival in regional NSW by Stella Prize authors moderated by writers, reviewers and critics. There will be an In Conversation with the 2024 Stella Prize Winner and two additional sessions with a Q&A at the conclusion. Funding will assist with artist fees and to organise a livestream of the event. |
7,500 | – |
| WaGGa WaGGa Meals on Wheels Funding to provide a new rooftop solar energy system to meet operational needs. The service provides over 30,000 frozen meals each year and energy costs of the freezers and other equipment are a significant portion of the operational costs. The provision of a modern and efficient solar energy system on the roof of the building will ensure its viability. |
15,000 | – |
| WestWords Living Stories is a writing competition designed to ensure the stories and perspectives of residents from Western Sydney are seen, heard and celebrated. In partnership with fifty-five Western Sydney libraries serving over two million residents, and through workshops delivered by professional writers, work created to raise young people’s voices onto a highly visible platform where they communicate beyond their circles, and into the wider world. |
15,000 | – |
| Women’s CoMMunity Shelters Storytelling has been associated with change for many years and is powerful when utilised in a focused, deliberate manner to address specific needs. ‘Client Voices’ a new Women’s Community Shelters (WCS) project, will support survivors to share their story, advocate for and contribute to the development of WCS policies and practices through their lived expertise. Participants will receive support to share their experiences through various platforms, such as film, written, oral, art, poetry, crafts and music. They will be offered training to present their stories across different media platforms to promote advocacy efforts. |
15,000 | – |
| OTHER | – | 274,413 |
| TOTAL SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS | 610,106 | 564,788 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 1,335,474 | 1,424,147 |