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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.
Changes coming to FRRR’s online granting system
26 May 2025 – Significant upgrades to the software system that FRRR uses to manage grant applications and acquittals means that FRRR will soon begin moving to the new system.
Narrowing the digital divide via $200,000 in grants awarded to rural communities
16 Jun 2025 – FRRR, in partnership with Telstra, has awarded $200,000 via 26 grants to narrow the digital divide, through Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program.
FRRR and Suncorp support communities to build back better
12 Jun 2025 – FRRR and its partner Suncorp Group are providing $316,822 in grants to support disaster-affected communities as they continue to recover.
Using energy as a vehicle, Mycelia is catalysing community resilience
11 Jun 2025 – In 2023, Mycelia Renewables Ltd. initiated the Mycelia Energy Collective (MEC) pilot — a bold experiment in reclaiming energy as a Commons.
The benefits of investing in ourselves
11 Jun 2025 – A partnership with Toyota System Support Centre resulted in fantastic outcomes for the efficiency of FRRR’s granting processes.
More than $330,000 awarded to cultivate better mental health for rural communities and farmers
05 Jun 2025 – Nineteen NFPs are sharing in $334,501 through FRRR’s In a Good Place (IAGP) program to cultivate better mental health for rural communities and farmers.
More than $1M in grants to keep rural communities thriving
02 Jun 2025 – FRRR has awarded more than $1M in grants to 101 grassroots organisations across remote, rural and regional Australia.
Castlemaine’s clinic for people and their pets
29 May 2025 – The Regional Community Vet Clinic was awarded a $50,000 SRC grant to establish Victoria’s first low-cost, volunteer-run veterinary clinic and outreach service
Digital inclusion in rural volunteering
29 May 2025 – With support from the Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program, Family Care implemented ‘Better Impact’ – a powerful volunteer management app.
Tasmanian youth lead mental health tour
29 May 2025 – Backed by a $10,000 Heywire Youth Innovation Grant, THEIRS Inc collaborated with young Tasmanians to lead a powerful mental health initiative.
Collaboration puts Aboriginal Health in Aboriginal Hands
29 May 2025 – In 2023, the Spinifex Foundation SA (formerly the First Nations Philanthropic Funders Working Group), began implementing a project called Aboriginal Health in Aboriginal Hands: Responding to COVID-19 designed to address…
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