NAB Foundation and grants

Cardinia Environment Coalition

Cardinia Environment Coalition engages the community on environmental issues and runs an indigenous nursery, supplying locally native plants to the community, environmental groups, government agencies and other organisations. The grant will fund the production of a tool that rates the fire risk of native flora found in Melbourne to help create gardens and landscapes that are more resilient to uncontrolled bushfires. The resource will be used by councils, Landcare Groups, community groups, designers, nurseries and residents.

Landcare Australia

Far East Victoria Landcare aims to enhance the natural environment, sustainability of agriculture and land use and address issues affecting the social capacity of communities within the region through supporting education, social cohesion and wellbeing. This grant will fund a mental health pilot program for community members impacted by natural disasters including the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires and flooding in the area in 2021.

Landcare Victoria (Mornington Peninsula Koala Conservation)

Landcare Mornington Peninsula aims to help the local koala population by providing suitable habitats and a safe environment to ensure a healthy population. This grant will fund the increase of tree canopy and revegetation of farmland, education of landholders and the community about climate change, biodiversity (including koalas) and the importance and benefits of retaining vegetation in order to increase ecosystem resilience by creating a diverse landscape.

SHIFT (Sustainable Hurstbridge: Ideas for Transition)

SHIFT is a sustainable-living organisation that runs workshops, campaigns, events and programs to encourage locals to live sustainably. This grant will fund the expansion of a community garden called the 'Edible Hub'. This will allow SHIFT to involve more locals in their programs, helping to share valuable resilience skills such as food growing, energy use, seed saving, waste reduction and social connection.

Carisbrook Country and Fire Association

The Carisbrook CFA is a community fire brigade in an area prone to natural disasters. The grant will purchase two new breathing apparatus sets for first responders to use while fulfilling their duties (entering toxic atmospheres, rescuing trapped victims and conducting other dangerous operations). This equipment will provide additional capacity for a rapid intervention team to rescue fellow firefighters in the event of an emergency.

Morwell SES

Victorian State Emergency Service in Morwell, aims to assist Morwell and surrounding areas during floods, storms, fire, search and rescue. This grant will fund the replacement of the Service's road, air, industrial and rail rescue stabilisation trailer to enable critical timely rescues and avoid irreversible injuries, and possible deaths in times of disasters.

Werribee River Association

The Werribee River Association aims to provide programs and initiatives to build the resilience of the Werribee Catchment including education, advocacy work, research, community engagement and restoration work. Werribee is an area that is being rapidly developed with lack of greenery leading to an increase in carbon emissions. This grant will fund planting of greenery and grassland restoration which stores carbon more effectively than trees, helping to reduce the communities' carbon emissions.

Ariah Park Rural Fire Brigade

Ariah Park Rural Fire Brigade is a volunteer led community organisation that aims to fight fires and attend emergencies in the local area. The grant will be used to provide storage for volunteers’ uniforms which they currently store at home, slowing down emergency response times. It will also be used to purchase a projector screen to conduct training sessions with volunteers and the community and to install cooling and heating to the training space which also acts as a community hub during disasters.

Autism STEP Australia

Autism STEP Australia aims to spread autism and neurodiverse awareness and acceptance and help build a more considered world. This grant will fund ‘Ask Me What I Need’ autism training in a high-risk natural disaster community in NSW, enabling targeted preparedness, response, and recovery strategies for the community when engaging with autistic youth and adults.

Carbon8 Fund

Carbon8 Fund aims to help Aussie farmers transition to regenerative agriculture and rebuild the carbon (organic matter) in their soil from 1% to 8%. This grant will fund a field day on the Central Coast of NSW, enabling farmers to use the tools they have available to build healthy soil, capture and store carbon, improve the function of the water cycle, increase biodiversity, support farmer wellbeing, improve farm resilience and reduce their carbon footprint through the entire supply chain.

Community Links Wellbeing

Community Links Wellbeing supports disadvantaged and vulnerable people in the Wollondilly, Camden, Campbelltown and Wingecarribee Local Government Areas. The grant will be used to help isolated and vulnerable residents connect with services and organisations that can help prepare them for future disaster events, ensure they understand and have adequate insurance, and connect residents into the wider community and resilience-building activities.

Early Links Inclusion Support Services

Early Links Inclusion Support Services assists people with disabilities and developmental delays in the Hunter region by providing immediate support, therapy to clients, inclusive events and programs designed to promote positive mental and physical wellbeing and increase community engagement. This grant will fund a community hub in Muswellbrook an area impacted by bushfires and the 2022 floods, creating a welcoming, inclusive space for families of those with additional needs, to socialise and build connections and receive direct assistance after being impacted by natural disasters.

Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade

Lake Albert Bush Fire Brigade aims to provide a world standard of excellence in the provision of community-based fire and emergency services. This grant will fund a portable communications trailer and associated base stations enabling communities in Lake Albert, Gelston Park and other adjoining communities with non-internet dependant communication methods before and during a natural disaster.

Landscape Architecture Foundation of Australia

The Landscape Foundation of Australia supports the protection, restoration and sustainable management of landscapes and natural environments in Australian cities and towns. The grant will be used to run a co-design workshop with locals to create an urban greening plan for the town of Uralla in the Northern Tablelands region of NSW that is prone to extreme heatwaves. The workshop will also act as an opportunity to educate locals about how to prepare for the impending threat of climate change.

Lismore Girl Guides

Lismore Girl Guides aims to empower girls and young women to discover their potential as leaders of their world. This grant will fund a new meeting site away from areas affected by the 2022 floods in Lismore and purchase equipment and supplies that have been damaged to enable the continuation of weekly Guiding activities.

NSW Rural Fire Service - Mid Coast Aviation Brigade

The Mid Coast Aviation Brigade is a specialist brigade of the NSW Rural Fire Service responsible for the support and co-ordination of all aerial firefighting and emergency response services undertaken throughout the Mid Coast region. This grant will fund the purchase of two new laptop computers, a printer and flight planning/monitoring software in order to develop an Emergency Air Base Establishment Kit to improve brigade capability and readiness when responding to natural disasters.

ReachOut Australia

ReachOut is a provider of digital mental health support for young people and families in NSW. This grant will fund a geo-targeted digital campaign to reach young people aged 18-25 in Local Government Areas (LGAs) highly prone to natural disasters and connect them with ReachOut’s digital mental health support services. The project will target the 50 LGAs in Australia that were most impacted by natural disasters in 2020.

St. Vincent De Paul Society

St. Vincent De Paul Society helps the most vulnerable in the community. This grant will fund 100 food hampers for struggling families in Lismore impacted by the 2022 floods delivered by volunteers in Richmond and Lismore.

Cunnara Paiabun Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation

Cunnara Paiabun Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation offers support to people in need, at risk or who are vulnerable. This grant will fund mental health and wellbeing workshops that educate and assist people to plan, prepare and adapt mentally and physically to natural disasters.

Far North Queensland Regional Organisation of Councils

The Rivers to Reef Climate Resilient Alliance (FNQROC) is a group of Far North QLD councils working together to manage risks and develop opportunities for a climate resilient, low carbon future. This grant will fund a 12-month education and engagement program delivered by the Climate Resilient Alliance (Cairns, Mareeba, Tablelands and Yarrabah councils - facilitated by FNQROC) to improve preparedness for extreme heat in an area which has broken maximum temperature records and impacts such as mass flying fox mortalities (23,000), and increased presentations to hospitals (including infants for dehydration) which were unprecedented (State Heatwave Assessment, 2019).

Foodbank Queensland

Foodbank QLD aims to rescue over 14 million kgs of food from farmers, manufacturers, and retailers, and distribute this food to hundreds of food relief charities and school breakfast programs. This grant will fund 500 emergency food hampers in preparation for the 2022/2023 north QLD cyclone season that will be packed with key staples to be supplied to families in need.

Goondiwindi Pastoral & Agricultural Society

Goondiwindi Pastoral & Agricultural Society aims to promote and organise exhibitions, contests and games connected with the advancement and benefit of the pastoral, agricultural, equestrian, industrial (including arts and crafts) and horticultural pursuits in the Goondiwindi district. This grant will fund drainage and mitigation works in order to prevent flood water backing up through the showgrounds and internal drainage system.

Hinchinbrook Community Support Centre

Hinchinbrook Community Support Centre aims to meet the social welfare needs of the community. This grant will fund an electronic signage monitor to display information when the Community Centre is closed due to natural disaster or emergency events in order to provide critical support information for those in need in a region which is regularly impacted by floods and cyclones. Hinchinbrook and surrounding areas have experienced 11 notable flood events since 1995.

Maleny Neighbourhood Centre

Maleny Neighbourhood Centre aims to provide a welcoming, multifunctional community space with opportunities for community connection and wellbeing. This grant will fund workshops, disaster planning involving QFES and disaster management handbooks in order to prepare the local community for natural disasters.

Network Educational Australia

Network Educational Australia aims to ensure children recover from the trauma of natural disasters by re-directing their efforts into school and studies. This grant will fund flood packs for children impacted by the 2022 floods in Northern NSW and South East QLD providing everything they need to return to school, fully functioning and ready to learn.

Nungeena Aboriginal Corporation for Women's Business

Nungeena Aboriginal Corporation for Women’s Business helps Aboriginal women rekindle their spiritual awareness, cultural heritage and pride. This grant will fund six workshops for around 50 young men and women on the cultural ways of caring for country and each other. Using storytelling to help create greater custodianship of the land, the workshops aim to ensure traditional landcare practices are used by future generations, helping to manage natural disaster risks.

Miles State Emergency Service

Miles State Emergency Service aims to provide assistance during emergencies such as floods, storms or other severe weather events, as well as local community event assistance. This grant will fund equipment and furniture for the final fit out of the Miles SES dedicated training and gathering facility for volunteers of the Miles and Western Downs SES unit which most recently affected by floods in December 2021.

Queensland Youth & Family Services

Queensland Youth and Family Support Services provides support services to help families thrive and young people reach their potential. QYFSS operates a community centre in Riverview that acts as an evacuation centre in times of need, including the 2022 floods. This grant will help QYFSS ensure the centre is better prepared for future disasters, funding two generators, a pressure washer, gum boots, eye protection, safety gloves, tarpaulins and storage boxes.

Rapid Relief Team

Rapid Relief Team provides support to people impacted by natural disasters or humanitarian crises. The grant will be used to acquire further emergency equipment to assist in future efforts to protect and restore properties, both residential and business, during bushfire and flood disasters.

Rural Doctors Foundation

Rural Doctors Foundation aims to give those in rural and remote regions better access to lifesaving healthcare. This grant will fund first responder kits and replacement supplies enabling rural doctors to be prepared during natural disasters.

Social Care Solutions

Social Care Solutions aims to facilitate and influence better outcomes for children and young people through the delivery of quality assessment, training, and consultancy services across Australia. This grant will fund trauma training packages for carers in the out-of-home sector in south east QLD so that they can better support the recovery of children in the aftermath of a natural disaster.

Stones Corner Community Kindergarten

Stones Corner Community Kindergarten runs kindergarten programs for local children. It is located in an area prone to flooding and in February 2022, the yard and under the building were impacted by the floods in Brisbane. The kindergarten was inundated with rain, washing out access paths and creating slip hazards and water damage. The grant will be used to repair paths, relocate the kindergarten’s native bee homes and replace water-damaged items in the play area – an area used for creative role play by children.

Wildlife Care Mackay

Wildlife Care Mackay provides the resources and equipment that support the volunteering efforts of the community to protect native wildlife. This grant will fund disaster response equipment for up to eight carers, enabling these volunteers to rescue native wildlife in the event of a natural disaster.

Withcott & District Progress Association

The Withcott & District Progress Association creates greater engagement and involvement in their local community. The grant will be used to make upgrades to the Postmans Ridge Hall that is used as an emergency location during disasters, including the 2022 floods in QLD and northern NSW. Upgrades that will be made as a result of this grant include purchasing kitchen equipment and tables and chairs to feed locals who take refuge in the hall in times of disaster, as well improving lightning around the hall.

BlazeAid

Blazeaid aims to work with rural communities after natural disasters to rebuild fences and structures that have been damaged or destroyed by fires, floods, cyclones and/or drought. This grant will fund base camps in communities impacted by the February 2022 fires in WA (located in Denmark, Bridgetown, Corrigin/Bruce Rock and Narrogin) for volunteer armies to rebuild kilometres of damaged fences enabling farmers to contain their stock and/or restock their land after a fire.

Corrigin Farm Improvement Group

The Corrigin Farm Improvement Group aims to provide a positive and resilient future for farming. This grant will fund a landscape recovery planning and mapping workshop in Corrigin for 49 landholders directly impacted by the Corrigin and Bruce Rock fires in February 2022 to enable revegetation, fencing of reserves to assist the return of native fauna and flora and sharing of ideas between landholders for greater catchment rehabilitation.

Capricorn Riding For Disabled Association

Capricorn Riding for Disabled Association aims to develop the ability and enrich the lives of people with disabilities through sporting, therapeutic, educational and recreational equestrian activities. This grant will fund the renovation of the charity's fire reticulation system (recycled water) ensuring they have the most up to date, relevant and manageable bushfire plan in preparation for the bushfire season.

Southern Koala and Echidna Rescue

Southern Koala and Echidna Rescue aims to advance the natural environment by protecting and supporting native animals. This grant will fund a 1000 litre trailer for fire-fighting and supplementary watering of koala food tree plantations, enabling effective decisions regarding evacuation or defence of property and wildlife.

Kingscote Football Club

Kingscote Football Club has been nominated by the council as the location for the island's emergency relief centre and last resort refuge. The club infrastructure is used by community and emergency services to provide services and support to communities during natural disasters such as bushfires. This grant will fund restorations to the club rooms used during the 2019/2022 bushfires and new energy efficient drink fridges which were recommendations made by the emergency service personnel.

Alexandra Football Netball Club

Alexandra Showgrounds and Recreation Reserve re-development project - The Alexandra Football Netball Club was used as the key disaster evacuation staging area during the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. At that time, portable lighting was required to operate the site. As part of a four-stage redevelopment project, this grant will help fund new lighting to the Reserve, upgrading it to allow for permanent and reliable lighting in times of natural disaster.

Anam Cara House Colac

Protecting our hospice for the future - Anam Cara House Colac is a community-owned hospice providing respite, palliative care and end of life care for the people of South West Victoria. This grant will fund fire safety infrastructure and training to better protect individuals, carers and families involved in the hospice.

Art of The Minds Inc

Preparing our mindset for the future, Art of The Minds Festival - Art of The Minds Inc aims to activate, educate and engage the Victorian Surf Coast and wider community to creatively manage mental health and wellbeing, This grant will fund a two-day mental health first aid training event for 40 people living in the Surf Coast Shire, including Country Fire Authority staff, Lorne Community Hospital carers and people that have experienced a natural disaster.

Griefline Community and Family Services Inc

Life after loss - Griefline is a free national helpline offering confidential telephone counselling 7 days a week, 365 days a year to all Australian communities. This grant will fund a 4-part series of interviews with natural disaster survivors, first responders and emergency workers, and high-profile people who have worked through their grief and loss as a result of natural disasters.

Koroit Football Netball Club Inc

Sustainable solar energy hot water system project - Koroit Football Netball Club is used as a Moyne Shires Emergency Relief Centre location during natural disasters. This grant will fund the replacement of an ageing electric hot water system (the club's biggest financial and environmental energy cost) with low energy renewable solar hot water systems.

Lions Club of Portarlington Drysdale Inc

Generators to help in fund raising and emergency response - Lions Club of Portarlington Drysdale are improving their emergency response equipment to be used in the event of a natural disaster. This grant will fund the purchase of two generators to operate the club's mobile cool room in off grid locations, storing food and powering mobile BBQs for safe food preparation.

Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services

Multilingual emergency alert resource - Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services, is the peak body for the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria that aims to empower people from migrant and refugee backgrounds to participate fully in Australian society. This grant will fund the creation of a website platform to pilot the communication of emergency information in seven languages.

Rural Health Connect

Rural Health Connect and Gippsland Rural Financial Counselling Service partnership pilot - Rural Health Connect is an online platform that links people in rural Australia to psychologists over video calls and phone calls, helping to manage the impacts of drought, bushfire, floods and isolation and addressing the fact that rural people's access to psychologists is less than a fifth of the rate of people in cities.

St. John Ambulance Australia (Victoria) Inc.

Youth program volunteer recruitment for bush fire affected divisions - St John Ambulance Australia (Victoria) Inc exists to help those who are in sickness, distress, suffering or danger. This grant will fund the recruitment of new volunteers that provide lifesaving first aid support in communities around Gippsland and Wodonga that have experienced bushfires, and help better prepare for future natural disasters.

The Scout Association of Australia Victorian Branch

Bundoora Scouts going carbon neutral - The Bundoora branch of the Scout Association of Australia (Victoria) is committed to be carbon neutral by the end of 2021, an aspiration driven by its youth members. This grant will fund an energy storage solution that will be charged during the day and expended throughout the evening when the hall is mostly used.

The Reach Foundation

Reach Regional workshop delivery support - The Reach Foundation runs group workshops, led entirely by young people, to develop the social and emotional wellbeing of other young people. This grant will fund personal development workshops for school-aged children living in Moree/Narrabrai and South Coast regions of NSW that have been directly impacted by drought, bushfires and flooding.

Totally Renewable Yackandanah

Powering the Yack CFA - Totally Renewable Yackandandah is a 100% volunteer run community group. This grant will fund a 13kWh battery for the town's volunteer rural fire station to optimise the current solar and battery system and provide a robust platform to deliver more reliable bushfire response capability.

Transition Village Wallan (TVW)

Transition Village Wallan (a hub for change) - TVW are building a village of sustainable Tiny Houses for people experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness in the community. This grant will help fund the purchase and installation of a small community central hub for TVW groups to meet, plan actions, and educate village residents and vulnerable people on climate change and how to adapt their skills to use in crisis times.

Wonthaggi Life Saving Club

Over-coming flooding of Cape Paterson Bay Beach coastal area - The Wonthaggi Life Saving Club rooms were destroyed in 2019 when a severe storm hit the Cape Paterson area. This grant will fund the first stage of a holistic rebuilding plan designed to protect the club against future adverse weather events.

Woodend Neighbourhood House Inc

A connected Woodend - Following the devastating Australian bushfires in 2019/2020, the Woodend Neighbourhood House brought members and social groups together to meet regularly to strengthen connections between the local community. This grant will fund facilitated meetings and an event to deepen community connection, and preparedness and recovery after natural disasters.

Central Highlands Broadcasting

Central Highlands Broadcasting is a public broadcaster, promoting and operating a community-based radio station. The grant will fund a podcast bringing together a diverse team to share experiences of bushfire and recovery, in the Macedon/Mt Macedon, Strathewen and Mallacoota communities, impacted by summer bushfires in 2019/2020.

Gippsland Disability Advocacy

Gippsland Disability Advocacy provides disability advocacy support, advice, and referrals for people with disabilities including carers across Gippsland. The grant will fund empowerment and preparedness training (resilience capacity building) enabling participants to have knowledge and information in preparation for extreme weather and disasters.

Brain Injury Matters

Brain Injury Matters support and empower people to advocate for themselves and enhance the lives of other people with brain injuries. The grant will fund a module on Disaster Risk Reduction for the ABI (Acquired Brain Injury) Wise App and website to ready people with ABI to deal with disasters.

Upper Murray Innovation Foundation

Upper Murray Innovation Foundation support the activities of the Corryong Neighbourhood Centre and the wider Upper Murray community. The grant will fund the purchase of a vital multi-purpose heavy duty firefighting trailer which will provide a portable and effective fire firefighting resource which can be deployed where it is most needed across the community.

Yarra Valley ECOSS

Yarra Valley ECOSS is a not-for-profit community organisation promoting local food production, earth education, multicultural living, building work skills and developing a vibrant, resilient, inclusive and sustainable community, and increasing employment opportunities. The grant will fund the expansion of the Crops for Community program, providing tools and maintenance, seeds, OHS enabling the program to thrive, the community to grow their own food and reduce their climate impact and the community’s carbon emissions.

Australian Inland Botanic Gardens

Australian Inland Botanic Gardens operates the Botanic Gardens for public heritage purposes, inclusive of passive recreation for members of the community and broader community including international tourists. The grant will fund the purchase of a computerized Datacall irrigation control system with an annual subscription, that will integrate existing solenoids and enable remote activation of irrigation of plant beds.

2030Yea

2030Yea is a group of volunteers from Yea and surrounds dedicated to the goal of the township of Yea totally operating on renewable energy by 2030. The grant will fund the purchase of a 7.2KW of solar PV on the Pioneer Reserve in Raglan Street, Yea and will help to reduce the risk of future natural disasters by reducing the community’s carbon emissions.

Romsey Neighbourhood House

Romsey Neighbourhood House works to build a stronger and more vibrant community with a greater sense of belonging and a priority to reach the most vulnerable and disadvantaged. The grant will be used to purchase emergency equipment for Romsey Neighbourhood House to use at the centre and loan to individuals and families during power outages. Equipment will include 6.5 KVA generator, satellite phone, rechargeable power packs and phone battery packs, reducing the community’s carbon emissions.

Bullarto Primary School

Bullarto Primary School is a small, rural, coeducational school catering for years Foundation to Grade 6 on Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Hepburn Shire. Following the impacts of the storms in June 2021, the grant will be used to replace lost animal infrastructures for the schools animal husbandry program, equipment to re-establish the apiary curriculum which plays an important part in the bees pollinating the garden and the surrounding forest, and to purchase native fire-resistant trees to replace those lost in the storm, and tree guards to ensure the trees are established quickly.

Shepparton Search & Rescue Squad

Shepparton Search & Rescue provide road crash rescue, storm and flood, and boating activities for the local community year-round and in times of natural disaster. The grant will fund Member’s first aid qualification as this is a requirement to help provide support and services to the community and surrounding area.

Corryong College

Corryong College is a P-12 College of 325 students located in the far north-east of Victoria. The grant will be used to fund the purchase of fire hose reels as protection for the Evacuation Centre/Stadium in preparedness for future bushfires and other natural disasters and a PA system with permanently fixed speakers for the Stadium.

Carbon Bins

Carbon Bins have contactless donation collection devices that permit individuals to pay remove CO2 pollution. They are developing the infrastructure to enable society to begin removing CO2 pollution from skies to start cleaning up the atmosphere and thereby reduce the risk of future natural disasters by cutting a community’s carbon emissions. The grant will be used to enable Carbon Bins to expand and fund an additional 15 contactless donation collection devices in Melbourne.

JET Helping Hands

JET Helping Hands is a not-for-profit established to serve humanitarian causes (poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, disability, destitution or helplessness), giving freely to those who are in need of such support and whose needs arouse compassion in the community. The grant will be used to purchase a food truck to serve communities affected by the natural disasters or pandemics immediately and help the communities with freshly cooked meals. Through this Food Truck, a few thousand meals can be prepared every day.

Friends of Edwardes Lake

Friends of Edwardes Lake is a local group who preserve, restore and care for the ecosystems of Edwardes Lake and Edgars Creek wetlands. The grant funding will go towards three projects: equip volunteers with the necessary tools and equipment to care for two new garden beds; provide hands-on education to volunteers to create bee hotels supporting the native bees; and install a large bee hotel.

Fusion Australia

Fusion Australia works for transformation in individual lives and community through a range of local initiatives. This grant will fund the install of split system units in 3 houses used for families facing poverty and homelessness. Currently these houses use wood and inefficient electric heating as the primary heat source in winter. The installation of these split system units will reduce the community’s carbon emissions, and will also help these families financially, many of whom are living below the poverty line, providing a more cost-effective means of heating through winter.

Parentline ACT

Supporting regional families in a time of trauma - Parentline ACT is a not-for-profit community organisation that is the only telephone counselling service for parents and carers in the ACT. This grant will fund office support and professional supervision of fully trained volunteer counsellors, allowing them to collect and collate specific resources in supporting local and regional families plagued by ongoing trauma as a result of the 2020 bushfires.

Theodore Primary School

Bike riding to combat climate change - Theodore Primary School is a public school in ACT that is focusing on sustainability and what they can do to help the environment. This grant will enable the school to purchase school bikes and scooters to teach basic bike and road safety skills, and lend them to students to travel to and from school to reduce their carbon footprint and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions in the community.

Australian Mercy G'day Farmer (a registered project under Australian Relief & Mercy Services.)

Temporary housing project - Australian Relief & Mercy Services (Australian Mercy) is a Christian Aid and Development Organisation. This grant will go toward the G'day Farmer ‘temporary housing alternative’ project that aims to provide wind, water and vermin proof living space for landowners in the Nymboida and nearby region who lost their homes in the 2019/20 bushfire disaster.

Australian First Responder Foundation (AFRF)

Emergency first responder retreat - Australian First Responder Foundation is a not for profit, charitable organisation who serve and honour volunteer and emergency first responders and their families mental health and wellbeing through peer support, education, and wellbeing retreats. This grant will enable AFRF to deliver a weekend retreat program for 15 Emergency First Responders of the NSW South Coast who were heavily involved in the 2019/2020 bushfire response, providing them with the opportunity to develop the skills and capabilities in reducing the impact on their mental health and wellbeing and the chance to reconnect, reframe and reset prior to returning to their workplaces.

Cawdor Public School Parents & Carers (P&C) Association

Cawdor family camp and activities - Cawdor Public School P&C Association supports students, families, staff and community of the semi-rural community of Cawdor. Disruptions due to bushfires and COVID-19 have hindered the ability of the adults caring for the students to connect. This grant will be used for a family / carers camp designed to break down barriers, support community cohesion and belonging, and community preparedness for future disasters.

Container of Dreams Ltd

Micro-housing solutions for bushfire victims - Container of Dreams build and provide affordable housing to the neediest in the Tabulam, NSW community using micro-housing solutions, including building Tiny Houses for bushfire victims. The Tabulam community was extremely hard hit, losing over 200 homes in several blazes in 2019/2020. There are still people who have not been able to return to their properties. This grant will fund the build of one of these Tiny Houses for someone without one.

Country Women's Association (CWA) Lismore Evening Branch

Flood proof storage initiative - CWA Lismore Evening Branch is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to improve the conditions for country women and children, especially those living in rural and remote Australia. Community groups such as the CWA are essential to provide support affected people and those who need a calm familiar space in times of natural disaster. In 2017 the Lismore Evening Branch rooms were flooded, causing significant loss and this grant will flood proof the rooms. This grant will flood proof the Lismore Evening Branch rooms.

Lions Club of Tenterfield Inc

Flood relief for affected farmers - Lions Club of Tenterfield Inc support farmers in the Tenterfield Shire region who experienced heavy flooding in March 2021. These farmers have recently recovered from the 2019/2020 bush fires and 5 years of drought. This grant will go toward the rebuilding of fences.

Living Connected Now Limited

Training seniors in regional NSW to install and use emergency service apps - Living Connected develops partnerships with local community organisations throughout Southern NSW, to mentor seniors in digital skills, training them to use the Internet and become digitally included. In 2020, they distributed free devices to bushfire victims and those in lockdown because of COVID, as well as delivered training to seniors who already have their own devices. This grant will fund the expansion of these services into regional areas of NSW where seniors are most vulnerable and not always digitally literate.

Love Culburra Beach Festival Incorporated

Culburra Beach Community connectiveness & resilience project - Love Culburra Beach Festival is a community organisation that seeks to foster holistic community engagement in the South Coast region. This grant will support a critical project to rebuild connectiveness and increase resilience following drought, bushfires, floods and COVID. 100 people will share their stories of disaster and resilience through a series of photographic workshops at the community centre, which will then be showcased in the regional festival in September 2021. Over 15,000 people will actively engage with this project in 2021.

Rotary Club of Pambula

Portable laundry and bathroom pod - The Rotary Club of Pambula is working with regional communities affected by bushfires in the shire in Far NSW. This grant will go toward funding portable bathroom pods for those that are still not able to access everyday sanitation such as running water, flushing toilets and showers.

Rotary Club of Woolgoolga Inc

Working with the SES to prepare Corindi/Woolgoolga for natural disasters and emergencies - The Rotary Club of Woolgoolga Inc, mid north coast NSW, is undertaking natural disaster preparedness works. This grant will fund the installation of electrical wiring in the local Corindi Woolgoolga SES Unit to connect the main building to their storage shed which houses electrical generators, enabling the unit to function effectively in a blackout. The grant will also fund “Grab and Go kits” for 40 households that are in the flood prone areas of the Corindi Flood Plain.

Royal Far West

Help for country children experiencing post-traumatic stress, behavioural problems & mental health issues - Royal Far West connects country kids to healthcare by delivering health, education and disability services in a residential facility in Manly and via technology and in-community programs. This grant will fund services for traumatised country children, including psychiatric assessment, review and regular tele-therapy as a result of the 2019/20 bushfires.

SCARF Incorporated

Natural disaster preparedness project (bush fires) - SCARF is a social enterprise using hospitality to transform lives. This grant will fund a series of in-language workshops in conjunction with the Rural Fire Service, that targets emerging communities from refugee and new migrant backgrounds residing in the Illawarra region with practical information to prepare, stay safe and promote resilience about natural disaster emergencies.

Teen Challenge NSW Inc

Preparing the residential site for emergency evacuation due to natural disasters - ONE80TC is a not-for-profit organisation that provides long-term residential treatment and rehabilitation services for young men. This grant will towards enhancing emergency evacuation procedures and improvements to their preparedness plans to natural disasters and emergencies.

Upper Spring Creek Landcare

Support and Survival (Western Sydney dry rainforest habitat, Stage 2) - Upper Spring Creek Landcare is a community-based movement around Australia working together to shape the future of our land, biodiversity and waterways. The Upper Spring Creek Landcare group in Wollondilly Shire, has been severely impacted drought, bushfires and flooding. This area includes tree species for koala habitat. This grant will fund land care bush regeneration work to help their survival and strengthen the environment to be more resilient to natural disasters.

Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre Inc

Women and disaster - Winmaleee Neighbourhood Centre Inc was at the epicentre of the 2013 Linksview Road Fires. It has since developed an extensive Emergency Relief & Recovery Program to build resilience in traumatised communities. This grant will fund a series of workshops, targeting women in communities in Lithgow, Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury who were directly impacted by the fires, empowering them to identify the critical changes needed in order to plan, prepare and take action in future disaster.

Be Centre Foundation

Be Centre Foundation specialises in empowering youth (aged 3-12) to navigate and recover from traumatic experiences through our evidence-based Play Therapy program. The grant would fund the creation of a ‘Need to Play’ (NtP) program for children and parents, to be distributed through primary schools in bushfire-impacted communities in NSW and provide tangible resources for their whole community to encourage play-based healing.

CatholicCare Western Sydney

CatholicCare Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains' mission is to be a strong and visible provider of care for all in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains with a special concern for the poor and disadvantaged. The grant will fund the cost of a program coordinator to expand the Farm it Forward program, a peri-urban farming social enterprise model in which landowners allow their land to be market gardened by community members. This will allow expansion from the current five properties to seven properties and encourage participants to connect with Community Supports and Wellness Programs offered by CatholicCare, including bushfire recovery work out of the CatholicCare Drop-In Centre Springwood.

Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains

Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains is a not-for-profit that supports and advocates for the development, production and exhibition of contemporary art throughout the Blue Mountains and Western Sydney. The grant will help fund the creation of an art exhibition at Cementa 21 (19-22 May 2022), a visual arts festival based in rural Kandos. The exhibition, called Carnivale Catastrophe, will provide a mirror of experiences, and communicate the unspoken and the supressed stories of Blue Mountains and Kandos communities that were severely affected by the black summer bushfires

Young Farmers Connect

Young Farmers Connect is a national not-for-profit committed to cultivating networks, resources and community for young farmers that Advocates for small scale farming and the local food economies sector supporting the use of regenerative, holistic and sustainable agricultural practices. This grant will fund a training for young farmers in the greater Sydney region to develop their skills in assessing the soil on their farm, planning their production system to maximise productivity, reducing inputs over time and simultaneously building soil health. The programs aims to prepare young farmers in regions that have experienced extended drought, severe bushfires and most recently floods.

Doin It For Rural Aussie Kids

Doin It For Rural Aussie Kids supports rural children doing it tough due to circumstances outside their control. Created to assist rural families suffering from the financial stress caused by drought, bushfires and the mouse plaque, the grant will fund their Christmas National School Run, delivering personalised Santa Sacks and grocery vouchers to as many rural and remote schools as possible. The aim is to alleviate the financial burden on families during the festive season and have motivational conversations with children and families where possible.

Healthy Cities Illawarra

Healthy Cities Illawarra work across Wollongong, Shellharbour, Kiama and Shoalhaven, providing programs, and activities addressing underlying social, economic and environmental causes of health inequality, which lead to chronic disease and other social adversities. The grant will help fund the creation of the Wollongong Virtual Farmers Market, a transparent and fair online marketplace for local and sustainably produced foods that will enable the community to actively support local producers and reduce their climate impact and carbon emissions by buying low food miles and no-packaging foods.

Lions Club of Taree

The Lions Club of Taree serves the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community. This grant will be used to fund a mobile toilet block on a trailer, which can be deployed quickly during and after disasters. During recent drought, fires and floods, many local communities, small and large, had at various times no public toilets available.

Upper Lansdowne Memorial Hall Committee

Upper Lansdowne Memorial Hall Committee serves as the hub of the community and is the only community meeting place that host events. The grant will be used to fund the installation of a grid-connected battery system to store energy from the existing 4.8KW solar system, providing essential services of lights, water pumping, urns and minor cooking for extended periods without mains power. This will allow the hall to operate as an emergency centre during future emergencies.

RuffTRACK

RuffTRACK ensures young people who have fallen through the cracks of society, sleeping rough and experiencing violence, fall no further. The grant will be used to fund employability pathways for disadvantaged youths through a program that matches 8 trainees and 16 work experience places with 10 farmers and 40 families in the MacDonald Valley. The farmers and families will teach the youths about land rehabilitation, environmental sustainability in farming and disaster prevention, and in return get physical and mental support and help repaint fences on their disaster affected properties.

Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital

Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital operates veterinary facilities to treat, prevent and relieve the suffering of orphaned, injured or diseased native Australian wildlife through rescue, treatment, rehabilitation and release. The grant will be used to fund the purchase of vital wildlife trauma equipment including a patient warming unit and blankets and incubators to maintain optimal body temperature during life-saving surgery and clinical inspection. The incubator aids in restoring optimal temperature and "fluff" for birds and reptiles that have been affected by flooding. The patient warming blanket and unit are essential veterinary equipment during surgery and clinical inspections.

KidsXpress

KidsXpress is a children’s mental health charity, transforming the lives of children impacted by trauma relating to abuse, neglect, grief and household dysfunction. This grant will fund a trauma-focused mental health education program for parents in the NSW Snowy Valleys region. The program will be delivered over 10 weeks in 120-minute sessions to support parents to help their children enhance emotional intelligence; manage frustrations; deal with conflict; have better concentration at school; increase positive behaviours; and build their resilience in the face of life challenges, including natural disasters.

Holbrook Sporting Complex 355 Management Committee

Holbrook Sporting Complex 355 Management Committee are a local community of volunteers for the Greater Hume Shire Council, in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales. This grant will fund the purchase of dining tables and chairs and upgrading of outdated kitchen equipment and utensils at the Holbrook Sporting Complex ground. The ground and its facilities were the main marshalling area for many brigades and units from far and wide to fight the 233,000-hectare Green Valley blaze in the hills, and dangerous terrain just south east of Holbrook, in early 2020. The local community groups undertook the massive task of catering and providing rest areas for the brigades and wants to prepare the facilities for future disasters.

Indian (Sub-Cont) Crisis & Support Agency

Indian (Sub-Cont) Crisis & Support Agency (ICSA) supports the disadvantaged communities in a culturally appropriate and bespoke manner focusing on the Indian Subcontinent demographic. The grant will fund face-to-face group training sessions for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to facilitate the development of person-centred emergency preparedness plans. The training sessions will be delivered by ICSA, which has been accredited in Person-Centered Emergency Preparedness training to assist people from CALD backgrounds, or with a disability, and developed the sessions in collaboration with SES, Rural Fire Service, Sydney University and Settlement Services.

CareFlight

CareFlight is as an aeromedical charity with the mission to save lives, speed recovery, and serve the community. They provide aeromedical services across Australia, caring for more than 9,100 patients annually. This grant will be used to fund 3 Ambu Airway Trainers. These Trainers are used in CareFlight's Trauma Care Workshops to teach participants intubation, which is needed when a patient is unable to maintain their airway or breathe on their own and is often necessary for patient treatment in natural disasters, especially bushfires.

Doctors Against Violence

Doctors Against Violence is Australia's largest network of doctors, with more than 700 doctors dedicated to helping patients who are victims of domestic violence by advocating on behalf of victims, and improving their access to care, at local, state and national levels. This grant will fund a pilot program in which small cash injections will be given to women and families impacted by natural disaster, and who are vulnerable to domestic violence, to pay for services such as counselling, psychologists, scripts and accommodation. This will help address the financial barrier these women/families often face when trying to access prescriptions, emergency accommodation and other services after a natural disaster.

Girls on Fire

Girls on Fire provides firefighting and resilience programs for teenage girls and young women in an experiential outdoor learning setting. The programs are delivered by female firefighters in collaboration with NSW fire and emergency service agencies. This grant will fund the roll out of a greater number Girls Fire & Resilience Programs in areas impacted by the 2019/2020 bushfires and/or have high at-risk populations as invites to deliver the program are growing. Each program is tailored to the risks and needs of a community and links to prevention and recovery programs of collaborating local agencies, so that the participants return home empowered and inspired to become fire safety conduits for their families, neighbourhoods and school communities.

Equal Effort

Equal Effort (in auspice agreement with Masy Consultants) advances education in disaster resilience, community resilience, humanitarian engineering, and climate change for children and youth with a particular focus on needy communities living in vulnerable areas. The grant will fund the creation of a fun and engaging learning modules for primary school children in Clarence Valley and Kempsey to build their early understanding and appreciation of community resilience and encourage them to actively participate in decision-making processes around natural disasters at home and in the community. Clarence Valley and Kempsey have a disaster index rating of ~3.6 which is the highest in regional NSW.

Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Assoc Inc

Safety first with life jackets - The Australian Volunteer Coast Guard Assoc Inc is a marine search and rescue organisation comprised entirely of volunteers. This grant will fund the purchase of life jackets to meet Australian standards and safety regulations and ensure the safety of the public that may need to be evacuated from coastal communities by marine rescue in the event of fire or flood when the only way to safety is by sea.

Capricorn Film Festival

Sharko Inspire, Connect, Assist - The Capricorn Film Festival is to be Central Queensland's premiere film arts organisation. This grant will go toward a strategic mental health initiative which will tour the Central Queensland region, in partnership with feature documentary Sharko and Movember to bring awareness and support for men’s health and wellbeing as the region recovers from the mental and physical impact of the devastating Queensland bushfires.

Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare Inc.

Bush garden nursery relocation project - Coastal Dry Tropics Landcare is a community group dedicated to conservation and restoration of native vegetation around Townsville. This grant will fund nursery equipment for a new revegetation site, with the aim of continuing to safeguard Townsville ecosystems from future floods, droughts, or cyclones by strengthening landscapes from the threat of erosion and increasing drought tolerant species.

GIVIT Listed Ltd

Virtual volunteering giving portal – GIVIT is a national, online charity that provides critical support in natural disasters by working with local and state and local governments to find out exactly what people need and connecting them immediately with donations. This grant will fund the upgrade of the GIVIT portal to filter, manage and match people willing to give their skilled or unskilled time as a virtual volunteer to help small charities and not-for-profits, many of which have been impacted by natural disasters.

Jindalee Districts Australian Football and Netball Club Inc

Wireless soil moisture monitoring system - The Jindalee Districts Australian Football and Netball Club is a not-for-profit community sports club run by volunteers. This grant will fund the installation of a network of wireless soil moisture sensors under the club oval. The project will significantly reduce water usage, eliminate water waste and proactively address future climate risks.

Maroochydore State Emergency Service

Emergency response and training equipment - Maroochydore SES is an all-volunteer organisation of 85 members that supports the Sunshine Coast Community during times of disaster and emergencies. This grant will fund new equipment for use by the SES response crews when deployed.

Moriarty Park Committee

Commercial fridge project - Moriarty Park Hall and Grounds in Canungra acted as an evacuation hub during the 2019/2020 bushfires. This grant will fund the cost of purchasing a new glass fronted fridge for use during any future natural disaster response efforts.

Murphy's Creek Rural Fire Brigade

Purchase of new and replacement tools and equipment - Murphy's Creek Rural Fire Brigade is the only emergency services provider in Murphy’s Creek in the Lockyer Valley Region and is the first response agency for fires, medical emergencies, rescues, searches for lost persons and road crashes. This grant will fund the purchase of new cordless power tools, specialised fire and rescue tools and replace aging chainsaws.

Port Douglas Community Service Network Inc

Install solar panels, to reduce our carbon footprint, and reduce expenditure on coal fired electricity supply - The Port Douglas Community Service Network Inc operates a neighbourhood centre where vulnerable local residents seek support and emergency relief in times of natural disaster and other crises. This grant will fund the purchase of a generator that will keep the neighbourhood centre running during power blackouts, most often caused by extreme weather events such as cyclones, allowing it to continue to provide a sense of normality and a welcoming environment for the community.

Rattler Railway Company Limited

Gear up with Gertie - The Rattler Railway Company Limited operates the Gympie Emergency Response Train, affectionally known as GERTIE, which is a support vehicle for emergency responses to bushfire along the Mary Valley heritage line in south east Queensland. This grant will fund ergonomic refurbishment and equipment of the train to increase protection from extreme conditions and help keep GERTIE operational for up to another 10 years.

Scenic Rim Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc

Mobile field hospital - Scenic Rim Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc. is a wildlife rescue group operating in the Scenic Rim LGA in South East Queensland. This grant will fund the purchase of a bus and refurbished it into a mobile vet hospital that can deployed at times of natural disasters.

Tablelands Regional Council

Information Technology resources and generator switch installation for community disaster teams - Tablelands Regional Council has a local disaster management group that addresses disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. This grant will fund the purchase of information technology for community disaster teams, as well as the installation of generator switches at Millaa Millaa and Mt Garnet headquarters.

Theodore Early Childhood Centre Association

Solar power installation - Theodore was the first town in Queensland to be fully evacuated during the 2010/11 floods. This grant will fund the installation of solar panels at the early childhood centre to reduce carbon energy usage by 40-50%, thereby reducing energy costs and allowing the allocation of funds to projects, supplies and education materials, including for the centre's focus on educating the children about safeguarding the future of the planet living in a sustainable way.

Townsville Christian College

Solar power our school - Townsville Christian College has a twenty-year plan to build more school infrastructure in Vincent, Townsville and wants to reduce the lifetime carbon footprint of the school by using solar power. This grant will help fund solar panels on one of the school buildings, helping with ongoing power costs, contributing to educating young people about the importance of renewable energy and helping to support renewable energy as part of the Australian culture.

Tully Horse Performance Centre

Hooves and paws for a cause - Tully Horse Performance Centre provides facility management of the equestrian grounds in North Queensland. It played a key role in rebuilding social connection in its community after Cyclone Yasi. This grant will fund a series of clinics with the aim of helping the community to be more mentally resilient to disasters by connecting them with the unconditional love they receive from their animals.

Yuku Baja Muliku Landowner & Reserves Ltd

Yuku Baja Muliku Baya Wayju ("light a fire") Project - Yuku Baja Muliku Landowner & Reserves Ltd, the traditional custodians of Archer Point in North Queensland, are dedicated to promoting empowerment of people, protection of the environment and respect of cultural diversity. This grant will help develop its regular traditional burning activities that prevent wildfires into a carbon credit arm of its business by funding the cost of a carbon market advisor (who is a traditional owner for the area), to help establish the business, with the long-term aim of creating a hub for indigenous carbon within the region.

Volunteer Marine Rescue Whitsundays Inc

Replace VHF radio repeater mast - Volunteer Marine Rescue Whitsundays exists to save lives at sea. This grant will help fund the removal of VHF (very high frequency) equipment by helicopter from Mt Robison, a rock outcrop at 1300 ft, and reinstate the equipment and a new mast/tower. Both installations are environmentally conscious, using wind and solar power.

Migrant Centre Organisation

The Migrant Centre Organisation advocates for, supports and assists people with socio-economic disadvantage who may be new migrants and refugees, from culturally diverse backgrounds, from emerging, closed and vulnerable communities, or with special needs. The grant will fund a project to reach and engage with new, emerging, vulnerable and closed communities and isolated people to build knowledge to prepare for natural disasters, understand how to respond to emergency events, and build resilience for future disasters.

Wildlife Noosa

Wildlife Noosa is a not-for-profit that aims to alleviate the suffering of animals by providing resources such as rescue and transport equipment and trained staff and volunteers to assist animals in need. The grant will fund more specialist equipment to aid animal rescues particularly for 'at risk' koalas and possums. The equipment will better equip Wildlife Noosa to prepare for future bush fires and the rescue of animals 'at risk' in the Noosa Region.

Calen District State College Parents & Citizens Association

The Calen District State College Parents & Citizens Association promotes the interest of and facilitates the development and further improvement of the school and local community. The grant will fund the acquisition and installation of a weather-proof storage facility (shipping container), and the creation of the 'P&C Calen Community Disaster Hub’, for vital emergency equipment and disaster supplies.

Murilla Community Centre

Murilla Community Centre develops and supports the diverse rural community by responding to social issues. It offers 3,000 community members family support, financial counselling, respite services, childcare and kindergarten, emergency relief, No Interest Loan Schemes, Centrelink services and Justice of the Peace services. The grant will fund the construction of a shed that will be used to store community buses that are used in the community. Sheltering the vehicles will protect them from damaging weather conditions caused by the drought that has gripped this region. The buses are available for use during emergency situations (e.g. 2 severe flooding events in the past 10 years) to evacuate isolated residents who have no personal transport and/or require disability access.

South West Millmerran Community Philanthropy

South West Millmerran Community Philanthropy is a not-for-profit providing emergency relief support for people experiencing financial distress or hardship, with limited means or resources to help them alleviate their financial crisis. The grant will fund the purchase and installation of telecommunication boosters that will support community members that live in dense bushland, either off-grid or in households that cannot afford or live in connected housing. It will give these community members access to telecommunications that can be used to communicate with emergency services in dire situations.

Wild Mountains Trust

Wild Mountains Trust is a not-for-profit developing and disseminating programs for young people and the wider community that deepen their connection with the land and inspire personal and environmental consciousness and action to minimise their impact on the earth. The grant will fund the upgrade and replacement of an ageing solar system, which is increasingly unreliable at Wild Mountains' educational centre. The centre is specifically designed to help university students, professionals and the community generally understand the urgency of reducing its impact on the natural world, minimising climate change and therefore reducing the risk of resultant ever-increasing extreme natural disasters.

Community Accommodation & Support Agency

Community Accommodation & Support Agency strengthens households in the Mackay region by providing tailored housing and support services to achieve independence, stability and self-reliance. The grant will fund development disaster resource kits for housing tenants and training with residents by case managers. The project will ensure pre-disaster preparations and education is provided to individual housing sites so that they have an understanding of the actions they can take to safeguard themselves and family members during a time of time of need such as a natural disaster.

Douglas Shire Council

Douglas Shire Council’s mission is to provide for the good rule of the local government area while delivering on the vision of Council in an efficient and effective manner. This grant will fund the purchase of three computers and a printer/scanner in the Mossman SES Unit to support essential training of volunteer staff to ensure the community has safe, competent, active members, and to better facilitate emergency situations for the area, which also benefits other stakeholders such as QAS, QFES, QPS and most importantly, the local community.

Rotary Club of Charleville

Rotary Club of Charleville Community service organisation assists groups and individuals in need in South West Queensland (Bulloo Quilpie, Murweh & Paroo shires). This grant will fund a deep cycle battery and solar charge unit to the SES so they can utilise their mobile UHF Repeater to improve communications both between on ground volunteers and QPS, and back to the mobile communication base.

Strong Communities

Strong Communities is a not-for-profit charitable social enterprise working in collaboration with other organisations to understand and support communities' wellbeing by facilitating programs and providing capacity-building services for children, families and communities in regional and remote areas of Central Queensland. The grant will fund the Resilient Children, Resilient Central Queensland project, focusing on building community resilience after natural disasters by delivering training for facilitators in the evidence-based Seasons for Growth Children and Young Person Program. The programs designed to help children and young people understand and attend well to their grief following change and loss experiences.

Creche and Kindergarten Association

The Creche and Kindergarten Association manages community kindergartens and early childhood services in Queensland, with more than 170 branch services and over 160 affiliated kindergarten services. This grant will fund the supply and installation of 36 solar panels and 2 inverters to the C&K Biloela Community Childcare Centre, a small 3 room service that provides the local community with quality education and care for children. The centre is committed to ensuring a sustainable future, including reducing electricity consumption and resultant carbon emissions.

Queensland Braille Writing Association

Queensland Braille Writing Association provides Braille tuition and reading material to empower people who are blind or who have low vision to live with dignity and independence. This grant will fund the translation of disaster planning information in Braille for people who are blind or have low vision to enable people to prepare an emergency kit and an emergency evacuation pack. Braille House will include information on what to include in these packs to prepare for natural disasters, including safety and general tips like a battery powered radio and contact names and addresses on a USB to make it easier for others to help.

Everick Foundation

Everick Foundation is a not-for-profit dedicated to building collaborations in research, outreach, and management to facilitate Indigenous and local communities in the pursuit of their heritage goals. In partnership with the Wulli Wulli, the grant will fund a 5-day drone survey of Isla Gorger National Park to inform the protection of highly significant heritage places from future bushfires. This survey will involve deploying a range of drone models to inspect the park’s inaccessible cliff systems for the presence of cultural heritage, to assess the nature and conditions of those sites, and to identify vulnerabilities to future disasters. The results of this survey will be mapped and provided to the Wulli Wulli and Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service to facilitate the protection of identified sites and inform ongoing controlled burn regimes in preparation for future bushfires.

Breaking the Silence (trading as DvAssist)

Virtual family and domestic violence (FDV) counselling services and online directory - DVAssist addresses the complex issue of abusive relationships in 16 regional, rural and remote (RRR) areas of WA via a helpline, web counselling service, online information hub and service directory. Domestic violence increases during natural disasters, when services can be shut down leaving victims isolated and at greater risk .This grant will fund virtual family and FDV support services in 4 RRR areas prone to natural disasters - the Shires of Carnarvon/Exmouth/Shark Bay/Upper Gascoyne, via a helpline, counselling service (telephone and webchat), online information hub and service directory.

Geraldton Community Toy Library Inc.

Fire safety playdate - Geraldton Community Toy Library is a volunteer operated toy collection providing play and learning experiences for babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and early childhood. This grant will fund a community fire safety playdate for families in Geraldton with children aged 0-6, where fire safety education will be provided via “learn through play”.

Darling Range Wildlife Shelter

Darling Range Wildlife Shelter (DRWS) is a volunteer, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to rehabilitate native wildlife and promote the value of biodiversity. The grant will be used to fund the services of a bushfire consultant and land care professional to: provide advice on environmental and facility modifications in order to protect volunteers and on-site wildlife in circumstances of bushfire, undertake fire warden training for volunteers, provide advice on equipment and procedures needed in case of bushfire to best prepare and protect DRWS during bushfire season (such as tree pruning). This will all better prepare the community for bushfire, ensuring the shelter is fit-for-purpose and volunteers are up-to-speed in the event of a bushfire emergency.

Trillion Trees Established

Trillion Trees Established (registered as MOTTWA) is a grassroots organisation working to plant native trees to reduce the impact of climate change, improve biodiversity and combat salinity and soil erosion. The grant will fund the Kambarang Festival, a safe friendly way to reconnect people with nature, educate the community on how to create a sustainable future and resilient environment in a fun and practical way while inspiring a love of and respect for the natural environment.

Margaret River Community Pantry

Margaret River Community Pantry aims to function as a social enterprise to facilitate the community’s access to an appropriate, safe, affordable and stable food supply. The grant will be used to fund the fit-out of a commercial kitchen at the Community Pantry, which is a community-owned and operated food redistribution enterprise to disrupt food insecurity with networked support activities. The kitchen would be where 'prepare and share meals' are arranged and skills training can be provided.

North Midlands Project

North Midlands Project is a not-for-profit arts, culture, history and heritage organisation working towards regional Western Australia to be known for its happy, healthy communities and vibrant, connected towns. The grant will be used to fund a solar battery that has capacity to work off-grid, to provide electricity to the community in the event of a power outage such as that recently experienced in the aftermath of tropical cyclone Seroja. The configuration will also have the benefit of storing generated electricity not used in the day for consumption in the evening after the sun has set.

Esperance Zone Innovation

Esperance Zone Innovation Group aims to provide capacity building of producers in Esperance in regards to Agricultural Technologies by investigating new opportunities or processes related to technology on the farm; coordinating projects related to AgTech or Information Technology systems relevant to agriculture; host information days and workshops to improve knowledge around technology; and network and collaborate with other like-minded groups to advance agtech adoption. This grant will fund a pilot technology system that provides local fire captains or emergency management teams with real-time information on water availability across water assets (i.e. farm water tanks) in the Esperance Shire, which is 200km wide by 100km deep and covers 4.2 million hectares. This project aims to improve the efficiency in which time and water resources are used.

Grief Centre of Western Australia

WA Grief Support trading as the Grief Centre of Western Australia is a specialist grief support service with a mission to change the way grief is viewed and responded to in the workplace, in homes and in the general community. This grant will be used to fund the design, prototype and launch Grief and Resilience Training for emergency service professionals and community members. The grant will also support project management, and the coordination and analysis, of the training held in key locations along the Darling Scarp in the Perth hinterlands where significant natural flora and fauna have been lost, and property damaged due to natural disasters.

Adelaide and Hills Koala Rescue - 1300 KOALAZ Incorporated

Replanting koala's natural habitat - Adelaide and Hills Koala Rescue are a group of koala rescuers who protect Koalas in the wild through enhancement and protection of their natural habitat. This grant will fund the replanting of Eucalyptus trees that were burnt in the 2019/2020 bushfires to rebuild lost koala habitats. The project will create corridors for the koalas escape in future bushfires.

Foodbank of South Australia Inc.

Foodbank SA bush fire food relief program - Adelaide Hills - Foodbank South Australia was appointed the primary provider of food relief for Adelaide Hills and Kangaroo Island bushfire zones by the State Emergency Disaster Management and Recovery agency. This grant will fund 20,000 meals for people continuing to experience hardship and food insecurity.

Habitat for Humanity Australia SA

Gardens of Hope - Habitat for Humanity (HfH) SA builds, rehabilitates and repairs homes in sustainable communities with support from homeowner families, volunteers, donors and partner organisations. HfH SA has a team of volunteers that have actively served for more than 230 days in the communities of Cudlee Creek, Lobethal, Woodside, Brukunga, Harrogate, Charleston, Lenswood, Gumeracha, Kenton Valley, Montacute and Mt Torrens, where more than 90 homes were destroyed by bushfires in December 2019. This grant will help fund the next phase of bushfire recovery program in the area, to assisting local residents to rebuild and replant their gardens, once their home construction is complete

Junction Australia - Kangaroo Island Community Centre

Mental health first aid training - Kangaroo Island - Following the 2019/20 bushfires, the Kangaroo Island community benefited from more than 100 members receiving mental health first aid training provided by Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation. This grant will fund the extension of training to sporting clubs on Kangaroo Island, as the clubs are a critical starting point for maximum traction in engaging a large number of local stakeholders, assisting future recovery efforts and increasing mental health skills.

*No applications were received during Round 1 for Tasmania or Northern Territory.

Spring Head Trinity Lutheran Church

Spring Head Trinity Lutheran Church provides assistance to the community in times of disaster. This grant will fund the upgrade of the electrical system for the Church hall, which allows the connection of the 60 KVA generator. Being prone to fires in the Adelaide Hills, Spring Head Lutheran wishes to improve the site's preparedness for future natural disasters. During the recent fire, community members utilised the premises with their families and pets.

Schools Ministry Group

Schools Ministry Group is the largest provider of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care services in South Australia, empowering over 65% of state schools, and their greater communities. This grant will fund resilience workshops and training for extended school communities, with the aim of building connections by opening lines of communication and the capacity for more resilient social/emotional connection within family systems and community systems. The grant will fund the provision of freely-accessible online training clips, with a focus on face-to-face community workshops, in centralised school communities, and follow-up online training for key community champions, such as school leaders and wellbeing practitioners, pastoral care workers, and community leaders.

Lobethal Recreation Ground Sports Club

Lobethal Recreation Ground Sports Club is a community owned and community managed recreational facility whose primary mandate is to provide modern and safe recreational and sporting facilities for the Lobethal community and surrounding districts. The grant will be used to fund the build of an outside kitchen, laundry and storage area to be used by the sports club and community in times of disaster. During natural disasters, the emergency feeding station, and temporary laundry facility will be used by those displaced or by volunteers helping with the recovery.

Goolwa District Pony Club

Goolwa District Pony Club encourages young people to ride and enjoy all kinds of sport connected with horses and riding. This grant will fund the installation of rainwater collection, storage and utilisation so that the Goolwa pony club can provide year-round green-space for the Adelaide Hills and Fleurieu communities, which are frequently affected by bushfires and are often contacted by horse owners looking to relocate to a safer location. The aim is to improve facilities to eventually be a Bushfire Safer Place. This will also provide an excellent location for local community members to safely gather during a disaster.

Nature Foundation

Nature Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation that invests in conserving, restoring, and protecting South Australian landscapes, flora and fauna to ensure their survival. This grant will be used to fund the trial of remotely piloted aircraft fitted with thermal technology to detect and estimate the density, abundance and distribution of large native mammals (macropods, wombats) and pest animals (cats, goats, foxes) within Nature Reserves, and to compare and calibrate on-ground survey methodologies (thermal binoculars). If proven successful, this aerial survey methodology will allow the Foundation to undertake cost effective surveys at a much greater scale improving its monitoring and evaluation programs of native and pest species, particularly if spatially hot spot areas can be identified and targeted for management intervention.

Stokes Bay Community Hall

Stokes Bay Community Hall was a central place in the life of the community; a place where the community could gather for activities such as community events, church services, tennis games and Christmas shows. First established in 1953, the Hall was severely damaged by the fires, with a large proportion of its structure and the recently completed kitchen extension lost to the fires. The grant will assist in the recovery and trauma from the bushfires, by rebuilding the Stokes Bay Community Hall and provide the community a place to gather again. Apart from being a general community gathering space, the hall also encompasses child-care facilities, musical performance spaces, community functions/events, the tennis club, church and more.