FRRR Disaster Recovery Appeal
2026 has already proven a challenging year for remote, rural and regional communities. The effects of the fires in Victoria and the flooding in Queensland will be felt for a long time into the future.
With your support, FRRR can be there, beside these communities, as they recover.
When remote, rural and regional areas experience disasters, the impacts can be significant for those communities on so many fronts, yet they are often less visible and therefore, less supported: stock and property losses, isolation, disruption to economies and wider supply chains, road networks and transportation, environmental and habitat loss, and often, increased demand on not-for-profit organisations.
These disruptions significantly impact the wellbeing, connection and prosperity of regional people and communities. In more remote and outback areas, these impacts are exacerbated even further.
That’s why FRRR has launched a recovery appeal, as we know these places will need help now, and for many years to come. Your tax deductible donation means we can make funding available to support local recovery priorities, when the time is right.
Why give to FRRR?
For more than two decades, FRRR has walked alongside remote, rural and regional communities as they recover and rebuild after disasters. We know first-hand that recovery is not quick or linear, as well as the value of long-term disaster preparedness. Each community moves at its own pace and support is still needed long after the headlines fade.
Your gift makes a real difference. Through FRRR, your generosity is transformed into grants for local grassroots organisations to lead projects that restore connection, rebuild infrastructure and strengthen resilience and disaster preparedness. This work often begins 12-18 months after a disaster and continues into the years that follow as communities prepare for the future.
How you can lend your support
FRRR offers two ways to give:
- Give for the future via the Disaster Resilience and Recovery Fund (DRRF). Your contribution is pooled with other donations and the investment earnings fund small grants year after year, helping communities prepare for and withstand future disasters. It’s a gift that keeps giving.
- Or you can choose to give now via the Strengthening Rural Communities: Prepare & Recover program. These flexible grants are available when communities are ready, ensuring support arrives at the right time for medium-term recovery.
FRRR ensures your donation goes to local organisations led by the people who understand what’s needed most. Together, we can help communities not just recover, but thrive. Donate here.
Your contribution will make a real difference
Local people are best placed to know what they need.
Our role is to trust them, to mentor and support them – especially in times of disaster.
With strong local networks, FRRR can make sure funding reaches those who really know what is needed, and when their community is ready.
Our special tax status also means funds reach grassroots community organisations
in rural areas who often miss out on support.
Can you lend your support? If so, please donate now.
If you have questions, email our Partnerships team or call 1800 170 020.
Your support could fund projects like these …
FRRR funds a diverse range of projects that reflect local needs, such as community infrastructure, wellbeing initiatives, community events, or skills development and knowledge building to both recover and strengthen resilience as they prepare for future disasters.
Below is a selection of projects FRRR has previously funded in other disaster recovery programs, and are examples of how your donation maybe used. You can explore more examples of grants awarded and the impact of the funding in our Recovery & Resilience stories.
Catering to community recovery
After using their employees’ facilities to provide much-needed food relief following the 2019/20 Black Summer bushfires, Bairnsdale Neighbourhood House used an FRRR grant to buy and fit out a food trailer / mobile kitchen to enable distribution of essential fresh food, meals, and catering following future disasters.
Creative bushfire recovery in the Scenic Rim
FRRR helped to fund The Little Pocket Association’s initiative ‘Regeneration – Creative Bushfire Recovery’ project. The two year community-led project offered a range of healing projects, workshops, events and activities that culminated in a series of murals and a memorial.
Image: Tanya Munster
Dungog learns from the past in preparing for the future
Following a devastating storm, Dungog Information & Neighbourhood Service used an FRRR grant to run a series of community preparedness expos and distribute preparedness kits, reaching more than 350 households within the Dungog and Stroud areas, as well as a further 42 homes from neighbouring communities.
Five reasons to support FRRR’s Disaster Recovery Appeal
- FRRR can reach community groups in remote, rural and regional Australia that often don’t have the capacity to fundraise locally, and due to their tax status, have trouble accessing philanthropic support.
- We rigorously assess the organisations and projects that receive grants.
- All grant recipients have to report back on how they used the money, and what they achieved.
- FRRR’s administration costs are low.
- FRRR is trusted, known, respected, enduring, and well governed. You can be assured that your donations will be managed with care and directed to local community groups and not-for-profit organisations, for local projects, supporting local people.
Further information
If you’d like to explore how you can make a lasting impact, our Partnerships team is here to help. Call 1800 170 020 or email us to join a community of donors who care deeply about rural Australia and want to ensure disaster-impacted communities not only recover, but thrive.