FRRR reports significant increase in support for rural communities
Annual Review stories Media releases: 5 November 2021
A unique Australian charity significantly increased its year-on-year grant making, giving remote, rural and regional communities across the country a much-needed funding boost as they adapted to the impacts of natural disasters and COVID-19.
Injalak Arts celebrates contemporary culture in Gunbalanya
Annual Review stories Community stories: 26 October 2021
Injalak Arts have used a $10,000 Strengthening Rural Communities grant to create The Mankarre Project. The project is centered around meaningful activities for people in community by celebrating local song and performance.
Pambula paintings given pride of place
Annual Review stories Community stories: 21 October 2021
Professional artists from the Bega Valley are invigorating Pambula Village with vibrant and colourful large-scale artworks, thanks to a bushfire recovery initiative.
Local place-making in Mirboo North
Annual Review stories Community stories: 20 October 2021
The Mirboo North and District Community Foundation (MNDCF) partners with FRRR, through a Community Foundation Fundraising Account, which has helped them raise vital funds for priority community projects by leveraging FRRR’s special tax status to attract donations.
Farmers Fighting Climate Change
Annual Review stories Community stories: 20 October 2021
Farmers for Climate Action established a Fundraising Account with FRRR in 2017 to allow them to leverage FRRR’s special tax status to bolster their fundraising.
Staying connected in protecting the desert
Annual Review stories Community stories: 20 October 2021
The Indigenous Desert Alliance empowers Indigenous people managing Australia's desert country to realise their social, cultural, environmental and economic aspirations.
Laundry enterprise benefits social fabric of Byron Bay
Annual Review stories Community stories: 11 October 2021
The SHIFT Project Byron Bay is a short-term educational transition program for women who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
Headspace Wagga Wagga provides crash course in “Adulting”
Annual Review stories Community stories: 7 October 2021
Headspace Wagga Wagga has teamed up with Youth Reference Group to create a series of videos to help the transition into adulthood easier for the teenagers of Wagga Wagga and surrounding communities.
Catering for the crowds in Hannaford
Annual Review stories Community stories: 7 October 2021
The small rural town of Hannaford in southern QLD is battling what would seem to be an endless drought. Hannaford Club Inc has been hosting countless fundraising events that required the upgrade of their catering equipment to better serve their community.
From dust to dances – Dancing in the Dirt gala ball gives town a break
Annual Review stories Community stories: 7 October 2021
Cumulative disaster in Jerramungup, Western Australia, has the Fitzgerald Biosphere Group using a Strengthening Rural Communities grant to fund Dancing in the Dirt, a night where the residents can take their minds off a year of severe drought.
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