| 2021 | 2020 | |
| HEALTH | $ | $ |
| Auburn Hospital (Western Sydney Local Health District) | ||
| This funding will go towards the refurbishment of two counselling rooms at Auburn Hospital using trauma-informed design which promotes physical and psychological safety. |
5,000 | – |
| Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation | ||
| Funding will continue the support of the Patient Pathways Telehealth Program (PPTP). This program helps patients with serious and rare diseases (such as mitochondrial disease (mito)) to navigate the health system and connect them with personalised services and information via dedicated nurses. |
10,000 | 10,000 |
| Batten Disease Support & Research Association Inc | ||
| This funding is for the development, production, publication and distribution of an illustrated children’s book (4yrs+) which will explain Batten disease to siblings and friends of children with Batten disease in a way that is simple to understand. |
10,000 | – |
| Butterfly Foundation | ||
| This funding will go towards Australia’s first residential recovery centre for eating disorders. Wandi Nerida will bridge the gap between inpatient and community treatment. Due to open in mid-2021 in Queensland, the facility will deliver intensive multi-disciplinary care in a home-like environment. |
15,000 | – |
| Delta Society Australia Limited | ||
| This will fund two days of assessments and one day of training for 45 new Delta Therapy Dog volunteers, in order to place them with 45 new facilities needing Animal-Assisted Intervention. |
7,600 | – |
| Down Syndrome Association of NSW Inc | ||
| This funding is for the development and piloting of a help guide for community organisations to invite and include young people with Down syndrome to volunteer. This also supports the design & translation of all resources into an “easy read” format for people with an intellectual disability to understand. It will also support a Project Officer for a fixed term. |
10,000 | – |
| Heart Research Institute Limited | ||
| This funding is to support further research for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) which is a form of irregular breathing during sleep affecting up to 30% of adults. Unfortunately, sleep apnoea is grossly underdiagnosed in the indigenous populations. |
15,000 | 12,260 |
| Miracle Babies Foundation Ltd | ||
| This funding is for weekly NurtureTime sessions in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle. NurtureTime is an 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 | – |
| Multiple Sclerosis Limited | ||
| This funding is to purchase a Tilt Table to assist individuals attending the MS Study Centre gym which provides a wide range of specialised equipment to assist people living with multiple sclerosis and other neurological conditions. |
8,700 | – |
| NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors | ||
| The Refugee Resettlement Swimming and Water Safety Project will provide intensive swimming and water safety awareness lessons for children 6 to 14yrs from new and emerging refugee backgrounds living in Newcastle, Coffs Harbour and Armidale. |
10,000 | – |
| Royal District Nursing Service Limited | ||
| To purchase ten portable Doppler ultrasound devices for use in improving the assessment of leg ulcers and treatment for the At Home Support nurses and Local Area Teams across all of the aged care services in NSW. |
12,000 | – |
| Salt Care | ||
| Funding is for partial running costs of the Ulladulla Trauma Care Groups. They facilitate support groups for people who have experienced trauma due to bushfires. These groups will follow a framework for understanding trauma, myth-busting about trauma and strategies for living with trauma. |
12,100 | – |
| Sir David Martin Foundation | ||
| Triple Care Farm is a unique, holistic program giving vulnerable young Australians, aged 16-24, a safe place to get well from substance addiction. Funding provides individually tailored support with counselling and opportunity to gain useful life skills. For those who missed schooling, literacy & numeracy lessons are provided, as well as vocational training such as a Cert II (Skills for Work & Training – Yr10 equivalent). |
15,000 | – |
| Strong Mothers | ||
| Funding to support nurturing Aboriginal mothers and infants. The nutrition program ‘Nurturing Our People’ benefits young Aboriginal mothers and their children, from pregnancy to six years. The aim is to visit and run Webinars for mothers and Health Professionals in regional and rural Aboriginal areas and distribute the Aboriginal Cook Book to encourage healthy fresh food to cook and eat during vital stages of pregnancy, breast-feeding and introducing solids. |
15,000 | – |
| The Humour Foundation | ||
| To support the Clown Doctors program which has enhanced the emotional wellbeing of children with life-limiting conditions and their families cared for at Bear Cottage children’s hospice (NSW). Through skills in clowning/music/mime/magic and fun, the therapeutic benefits of humour help empower children and make their experience a less scary, stressful and lonely one. |
14,000 | – |
| OTHER | – | 140,000 |
| TOTAL HEALTH | 174,400 | 162,260 |
| 2021 | 2020 | |
| EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY | $ | $ |
| ABCN Scholarship Foundation | ||
| Funding will support the three NSW scholars currently benefiting from the Kirby Foundation to continue from Year 11 into the second year of the program to Year 12. Accelerate is a 3-year mentoring and financial support program which aims to level the playing field and overcomes educational barriers for high-potential, disadvantaged youth. |
11,760 | 11,760 |
| Ability Technology Limited | ||
| Tablet devices (such as iPads) are now central for people with disability. They provide communication, information & home control possibilities. But people with the most severe level of disability have been excluded from these benefits. Their options are very limited – eye gaze, facial expression & head tracking are emerging as possibilities. This project will evaluate & compare these options. |
10,670 | – |
| Art Gallery of NSW | ||
| Regional Exchange Digital (RED) is a multi-faceted regional outreach education program developed by AGNSW in partnership with the NSW Department of Education, NSW schools, public galleries and art centres, Aboriginal Elders, communities and artists. During FY 2022 it will be delivered in Brewarrina and Kempsey. |
50,000 | – |
| Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) | ||
| Funding to help purchase a mobile kitchen/food trailer with equipment to run a food science and work education program for our autistic senior students at Aspect Riverina School. A trailer would enable the sale of freshly made nutritious food items such as juices, smoothies and fruit salads to the local community. This helps the students on the autism spectrum to practice their social interaction and communication skills, as well as to raise awareness for autism in the local community. |
15,000 | – |
| Country Education Foundation of Australia Ltd | ||
| The ‘Alumni Connect’ project will build on the significant work undertaken over the last two years to reconnect and increase engagement with the CEF Alumni network. Like the Committee Portal for volunteers, this resource will provide a central place to house information and opportunities for our alumni. |
10,000 | 15,000 |
| Engineering Aid Australia | ||
| The grant will be applied towards meeting the cost of the annual Indigenous Australian Engineering Schools (IAES) to be held in Sydney and Perth. This provides scholarships to eligible students who attend the IAES for the purpose of encouraging and assisting them to complete High School and go on to study Engineering or a related course at University and become an Engineer. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Harding Miller Education Foundation Ltd | ||
| This grant will help continue the support of seventeen Harding Miller Education Foundation scholars in their third year of the academic scholarships in 2020. The James N. Kirby Foundation will be supporting the same girls with the same package of online homework help and expense cards for school needs, excursions and uniforms. |
14,450 | 14,500 |
| Indigenous Literacy Foundation | ||
| This funding helps to provide 1,500 books to remote Indigenous communities across NSW and to help build a culture of literacy and fostering positive reading behaviours. In 2021, the goal is to deliver 100,000 books to 300 remote communities. The ILF program helps Indigenous children become familiar with English language, opens up their imaginations and provides families with high quality books to share with their children. |
15,000 | – |
| Infants’ Home Ashfield | ||
| The Circle of Security (CoS) is an 8-week parenting program, which helps parents and carers to increase their understanding of their child’s needs and emotions. This program will be delivered specifically for fathers and male carers by qualified CoS facilitators. It will assist parents and carers to understand their child’s behaviour, strengthen their relationship with their child and enhance their child’s confidence, wellbeing and self-esteem. |
6,200 | – |
| Karrkad-Kanjdji Trust | ||
| This funding supports the production of a plant and animal calendar. The Nawarddeken Academy (NA) is a bicultural school in the Warddeken Indigenous Protected Area (IPA), educating Bininj (Indigenous) children. In 2020, JNKF supported creating an Indigenous seasonal calendar, based on the seasons of the Kuwarddewardde (Arnhem Plateau). This is being expanded by developing thematic calendars to complement the seasonal calendar and allow for the documentation of cultural/local indigenous knowledge to be used for education as part of the NA’s Indigenous Culture & Language (ILC) program. |
14,850 | 25,000 |
| Learning Links | ||
| Learning Links will collaborate with the NSW Aboriginal Education Consultative Group and the Liverpool Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group to deliver innovative early interventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) children in years 1-4 at a priority school in Liverpool. The program will be based on an innovative and proven Learning Links model of intervention for ATSI children and build their capabilities and confidence in the foundational skills of literacy and numeracy to achieve lasting social change. |
14,800 | – |
| NextSense (Previously RIDBC) | ||
| This funding will help cover the fees of music therapists who run the weekly/fortnightly music-therapy program in Western Sydney for vision and/or hearing-impaired children. Aimed at giving the children, many of whom have complex needs, a rich learning opportunity to develop cognitive skills. Each session is run by RIDBC staff and one music therapist. |
15,000 | 13,060 |
| SDN Child and Family Services Pty Limited | ||
| 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 2 days a week for a period of 12 months. |
6,000 | 12,000 |
| Sydney Story Factory | ||
| Across two school terms, Story Factory will improve the educational outcomes of marginalised young people in Western Sydney by delivering weekly hour-long creative writing workshops to four classes of up to 25 students each. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation | ||
| Funding to help provide vital Early Language and Literacy support to the Giiguy Gamambi Preschool in establishing a Supported Playgroup for at-risk Aboriginal children on the NSW Mid-North Coast. |
15,000 | – |
| The Shepherd Centre | ||
| HearHub is an online platform providing clinical support and education for deaf children. It will provide early childhood professionals and clinicians with the cutting-edge resources they need to develop speech, communication and social skills. With this support, children will overcome the disadvantages of their disability, reaching their full potential. Long-term, HearHub will operate sustainably as a social enterprise, with professionals purchasing subscriptions. The specific focus of this application is the design of HearHub resources to develop social skills in deaf children. |
50,000 | – |
| The Smith Family | ||
| Girls at the Centre is an early intervention mentoring program improving educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls experiencing disadvantage, and at risk of disengaging from school. It aims to strengthen the social, emotional and academic aspirations of participants, increase their confidence, connections and wellbeing and increase attendance and achievement at school. |
15,000 | – |
| The University of Newcastle | ||
| Funding to support the development and expansion of RoboCup Junior Hunter Region. The grant will fund two events in July/August 2022, in Newcastle and the Central Coast. Funding will enable technical experts to run hands-on workshops on robotics for teachers and students in low-SES schools. They also target indigenous students, specifically with mentoring and support for selected schools. |
15,000 | – |
| University of Technology Sydney | ||
| STEM students spend significant time developing cutting edge technology as part of their studies. This project will prepare an entrepreneurship program for women focused on developing STEM students with entrepreneurial mindsets and skillsets. |
15,000 | – |
| Vision Australia Limited | ||
| Funding to purchase an updated version of the Duxbury Braille Translator (DBT) software, which converts words to braille to produce accurate braille documents for clients. This software enables independence, supports literacy skill development and provides equal access to learning for those who use braille as a communication tool. |
15,000 | – |
| OTHER | – | 262,375 |
| TOTAL EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY | 338,730 | 383,695 |
| 2021 | 2020 | |
| ENVIRONMENT | $ | $ |
| Australian Wildlife Conservancy | ||
| Funding to support the national rewilding program, which will restore 25 threatened species over the next five years. Also to translocate the critically endangered Brush-tailed Bettong (Woylie) from Karakamia Wildlife Sanctuary (WA) to Scotia Wildlife Sanctuary (NSW) in late 2021. |
40,000 | 15,000 |
| Bush Heritage Australia Fund | ||
| Sections of Tarcutta Hills woodlands are experiencing a phenomenon known as ‘locked-in’ due to vigorous regeneration after being selectively logged prior to Bush Heritage ownership. In ‘locked-in’ areas, tree growth slows leaving a high density of short-statured trees, and a depleted understorey of shrubs, grasses and herbs. A dedicated research and trial project will examine tree thinning options by employing a university student to conduct desktop and field research. They will then develop recommendations and an implementation plan to begin safely thinning parts of locked-in woodland. |
20,000 | – |
| Centennial Parkland Foundation | ||
| The Education Access Pass Program (EAPP) enables children from low socio-economic backgrounds to participate in nature education programs at Centennial Parklands. Many children in Sydney and across NSW have never experienced a school excursion, after school or school holiday program. Funding will enable 1,680 children living in central or greater Sydney to enjoy unique nature education experiences in Australia’s iconic Centennial Parklands from July 2021 to June 2022. |
15,000 | – |
| Documentary Australia Foundation | ||
| The grant will support the creation, implementation and evaluation of a strategic impact campaign for the Regenerate Australia ‘hero’ short film. The film offers up an irresistible vision of a safer, fairer, more resilient Australia, drawing on key insights from a community listening campaign to create a compelling roadmap to a more sustainable future by 2030. |
20,000 | 7,500 |
| EDO NSW | ||
| EDO will develop and publish a report which conducts a legal health check on Australia’s implementation of the right to a healthy environment, using the UN Framework Principles on Human Rights and the Environment. This report will contain a series of case studies to demonstrate this link from a legal perspective. |
20,000 | 10,000 |
| NSW Wildlife Information and Rescue Service | ||
| WIRES is Australia’s largest wildlife rescue organisation. WIRES has been rescuing and caring for wildlife for over 35 years. This funding will go towards an emergency rescue trailer that will enable carers to attend more remote wildlife rescues and have the resources at hand to provide more immediate care to sick, injured or orphaned wildlife during any emergency event such as bushfire or flood. |
15,000 | – |
| Rainforest Rescue | ||
| Rain Forest Rescue has planted 230,000+ trees to repair the Daintree rainforest, grown at their own Nursery, producing almost half the region’s seedling capacity. RR has been granted land to build a New Nursery (75-150k trees annually). This funding will go towards a tractor and loader to dig holes, slash weeds, load soil and move heavy blocks in the massive building process. This purchase will ensure the New Nursery’s success in achieving the highest seedling production possible. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust | ||
| The digitisation project is building a vast dataset of images that will be globally accessible and provide opportunities to share knowledge and support the next scientific breakthrough. These invaluable botanical resources hold the key to solving some of the most critical environmental challenges and develop the tools to encourage a more sustainable future. |
14,550 | – |
| OTHER | – | 100,000 |
| TOTAL ENVIRONMENT | 159,550 | 147,500 |
| 2021 | 2020 | |
| SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS | $ | $ |
| Agape Outreach Inc | ||
| Funding towards two paid part-time managers who can put in 25 hours each week to help coordinate and assist clients’ needs and welfare alongside our 20 volunteers, and a client management system that will help keep track of clients and queries and not have people being left unassisted. |
7,500 | – |
| Australian Theatre for Young People | ||
| To provide 100 students from Western Sydney, aged between 10-13, who face financial, social and geographical disadvantages with the opportunity to partake in an enriching theatre experience. In 2021, we aim to support children from economically disadvantaged, cultural and linguistic backgrounds by providing them the opportunity to spend the day with the Australian Theatre and travel to Sydney to see a live theatre performance, as well as taking part in an ATYP workshop with an ATYP teaching artist. |
14,530 | 10,000 |
| Australian Youth Orchestra | ||
| The project will strengthen the NSW arts community by connecting AYO musicians with local mentors, diverse audiences and each other through innovative development programs that are otherwise unavailable in Australia. Musicians will perform a world premiere, learn from and be inspired by leading artists in the prestigious Sydney Town Hall. The funding will go toward accessible and subsidised entry for young musicians and local communities who would otherwise be unable to access the project due to financial, social, and geographical hardship; venue and instrument hire; and specialist tutors. |
10,000 | – |
| Bangarra Dance Theatre | ||
| Bangarra will move into the core delivery year of our flagship youth engagement program “Rekindling” in Moree during 2021. Rekindling is a program that transforms the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people. Through intergenerational activities and collaborative learning, participants and communities re-ignite passion for traditional knowledge and practices, whilst establishing contemporary learning pathways that ensure Indigenous culture is shared and continued. Rekindling is delivered over 4 weeks and this funding will support the cost to offer the program free of charge. |
10,000 | 10,000 |
| Bobby Goldsmith Foundation | ||
| Funding to purchase six laptops, licenses and a portable printer to increase the capacity, mobility and efficiency of BGF’s Client Services team, which includes Case Workers, Case Managers and Community Support Workers. |
9,710 | – |
| Camp Breakaway Inc | ||
| Funding to purchase twelve adjustable electric beds to replace the old hospital manual beds to improve the overall experience for all the guests that stay and also for the workers. |
25,000 | – |
| Eat Up Australia Ltd | ||
| Eat Up’s mission is to feed hungry students so they can grow, learn and succeed. Volunteer sandwich-making sessions and donations of materials, ingredients and snacks help keep program costs very low. Funding will go towards purchasing cheese to help feed 900+ NSW hungry schoolkids over three terms in 2021-2022, while we work to secure a major cheese sponsor. |
10,000 | – |
| FLING Physical Theatre Inc | ||
| My Black Dog is a powerful original performance created by FLING Physical Theatre in collaboration with director Kate Denborough. The award-winning work was presented in 2019 and explores mental health issues affecting young people in regional locations. Their vision is to create a cinematic version of My Black Dog to be screened in remote and regional communities across Australia with an accompanying education package. The project will be presented in collaboration with Headspace Bega, and the broader NSW Headspace network. Funding sought will employ artists and support production costs. |
15,000 | – |
| Milk Crate Theatre | ||
| Bunan (Dust Storm) is a new Australian performance work sharing the story of a group who find themselves trapped in a small country town after a dust storm. Funding will go towards engaging a guest writer and production team to work with our Collaborative Artists to finalise the script and to bring the work to the stage in early 2022. |
10,000 | 50,000 |
| Muscular Dystrophy NSW | ||
| Peer Connections supports families affected by neuromuscular conditions (NMC). It works to decrease social isolation, support transitions as conditions progress and provide respite. It ensures that participants are supported and empowered throughout life stages by connecting with others with similar lived experience. |
11,900 | – |
| Redkite | ||
| Funding to support the Cancer Journey Program NSW. This program provides vital emotional, financial and educational support to children up to age 18 with cancer, and their families. Redkite is there for them from the devastating moment of diagnosis, during treatment and on return home. |
10,000 | 10,000 |
| Refugee Advice and Casework Service (Australia) Inc | ||
| Provides refugee women & girls with access to free, confidential legal support in a ‘women only’ safe space. |
15,000 | – |
| Riding for the Disabled Association NSW Goulburn Centre | ||
| Riding for the Disabled Association (NSW) Goulburn Centre (RDA Goulburn) provides horse related activities to enrich the lives of people living with disabilities using therapy horses. This organisation has been successfully servicing the Goulburn and surrounding communities for the past 40 years. |
15,000 | – |
| Rizeup Limited | ||
| RizeUp helps families impacted by domestic violence on their journey from violence to safety. During 2021, Rizeup aims to launch in the Newcastle and Hunter Region to provide practical support for families affected. Funding is to provide 45 comfort packs for the Homes Program, including children’s beds, mattresses and linen to change the ending for these families. |
7,500 | – |
| Stewart House | ||
| This project will give ten disadvantaged children aged 7-14 access to health and wellbeing support through the Stewart House program. These children will be drawn from public schools across NSW and will be nominated to attend by their home school principal. |
15,000 | – |
| TAD Disability Services | ||
| Solving Challenges and Reaching Goals aims to relieve the poverty and suffering of children as a result of their disability, for example, missing out on activities because they don’t have the personalised equipment suited to their physical and cognitive needs. This project will enable young people living with a disability to engage in age-appropriate activities which build skills such as independence, confidence as well as benefiting from physical activity, emotional well-being, social inclusion and community engagement opportunities by subsiding or fully funding custom equipment. |
15,000 | – |
| Taree Police & 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 3 hour program session on eight consecutive Fridays. |
15,000 | 15,000 |
| The Bell Shakespeare Company Limited | ||
| To support a one-week creative development of a new filmed series of Shakespeare resources for students and teachers called In The Round. Designed for Australian students, these resources will fill curriculum needs in a rich, on-demand digital format to ensure that schools receive high-quality Shakespeare resources when they need them and will complement our live national education and performance programs. |
15,000 | – |
| The Girls and Boys Brigade | ||
| The Youth Vacation Care Program is for 11 – 18-year-olds and provides a safe place for youth to hang out and access free activities during the school holidays. The program delivers a range of workshops and activities in our centre at Surry Hills, such as art days, song writing workshops and movie and gaming days. |
7,500 | 15,000 |
| The Northcott Society | ||
| One in six Australians has hearing loss, and a further 357,000 are blind or have low vision (ABS, 2016). Many people attending Northcott Penrith community space have hearing loss and vision impairment besides other disabilities. Funding is to install a hearing loop and upgrade braille tactile resources, assuring an inclusive environment for current and future customers and staff with hearing and/or vision impairment. |
15,000 | – |
| Wesley Community Services Limited | ||
| Wesley Mission is redeveloping the Edward Eagar Centre to upgrade its crisis accommodation service in Surry Hills. 662 people accessed the Wesley Edward Eager Centre in 2018-19. Funding will go towards the redevelopment of two studio units in a floor that is exclusively dedicated for accommodation to women clients experiencing the risk of homelessness. |
50,000 | – |
| Youth Insearch | ||
| A local Aboriginal woman will be engaged to work part-time as a Youth Support Worker within the northern NSW community of Tingha. She will leverage her lived experience as a place-based mentor and ‘graduate’ of our Youth Leader program. Supported by our Regional Coordinator, she will work directly one-to-one with young people, deliver weekly support groups, weekend workshops, and support young people to engage in our Leadership Training. She will support around fifteen Aboriginal youth and empower them to redress childhood traumas and pursue a purpose-driven future through education and employment. |
28,500 | 30,000 |
| OTHER | – | 226,164 |
| TOTAL SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS | 332,140 | 366,164 |
| GRAND TOTAL | 1,004,820 | 1,059,619 |