resilience
You can use the categories to the right to explore particular topics. You’ll also find inspiring stories about some of the wonderful things community groups do with that funding. We also share a selection of media stories, where FRRR or a member of our staff has been featured. For any media enquiries, email Julie Weldon or call 0423 110 802.
Fund resilience, not disasters
13 Oct 2025 – To mark International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, FRRR CEO, Natalie Egleton, discusses what funding resilience, not disasters, looks like in remote, rural and regional communities.
$19.3M delivered into regions still recovering from Black Summer bushfires
05 Dec 2024 – FRRR’s report, Black Summer Bushfires Five Years On reaffirms the need for disaster recovery funding for the medium to long-term.
Report finds good progress on strengthening social resilience in drought-prone areas
08 Oct 2024 – FRRR and ARLF are pleased to release the mid-term evaluation report for the Helping Regional Communities Prepare for Drought Initiative.
Victorian philanthropics unite to back rural communities
24 May 2024 – Four VIC philanthropics have joined forces in a $5M partnership with FRRR that will strengthen the capacity and resilience of communities over the next 5 years.
Rural mental health and wellbeing gets a $200,000 boost
21 Sep 2021 – FRRR has awarded $200,000 to 11 locally-led community initiatives that will provide mental health and wellbeing support for remote, rural and regional communities.
Resilience of rural communities strengthened with more than $1.5M in grants
09 Jun 2021 – FRRR has awarded $1,589,612 in grants for 112 projects in smaller communities across Australia, through its Strengthening Rural Communities program.
Managing for dry times in Hovell’s Creek
05 Mar 2021 – The impact of investing in resilience Hovells Creek Landcare (HCL), NSW received an FRRR grant to support a series of workshops to increase land management knowledge and strategies, at the…
FRRR to deliver two Future Drought Fund programs
18 Dec 2020 – Networks to Build Drought Resilience and Drought Resilience Leaders FRRR will soon be providing increased support into remote, rural and regional communities to prepare for the impacts of drought, after…
Friends of St Brigid’s get creative during COVID
20 Oct 2020 – The Friends of St Brigid’s (FoSB) Association Inc is a community organisation formed in 2006 after the closure of the local Church and Hall in Crossley, Victoria. The group purchased…
Tackling tough times in the Tablelands
30 Mar 2020 – The Tablelands Regional Council (TRC) and Northern Gulf Resource Management Group (NGRMG) have worked together to deliver a range of drought relief projects that contributed to connectedness, social wellbeing and…