Sunny Corner Toy Library (SCTL) loaned out from more than 3000 toys and activity resources for the cognitive, emotional and physical development of children fro 0 to 6 years old. SCTL also assisted families with home schooling and fighting isolation during Covid19 crisis, including stranded families in NSW from other states and from abroad.

Our organisation supports local Indigenous youth and their families in a dedicated facility which we maintain and operate. We improve school outcomes, reduce negative police contact, promote strong cultural identity, resilience and belonging through cultural, arts and sports activities. We mentor young people from job seeking age and after school to develop skills and nurture positive pathways to manageable employment. Our core business is the wellbeing and inclusion of Indigenous youth and the operation of the Ku'arlu Mangga (Good Nest) Aboriginal Art Centre. We do this byactively promoting positive cultural visibility (public art projects, cultural events),working closing with families experiencing poverty and health problems,providing a weekly, catered, night sport event (Maru Marungga dusk, nightlight) with transport support, senior coach mentors, and junior coach positive peers.providing Indigenous playgroup (Calya Arbala Happy Children)running vibrant artsbased school holiday programs on our site where youth socialise, yarn with elders and learn practical skills such as wood carving, painting, textile making for self confidence, and basic catering and hygiene for self care.connecting elders and youth on countryoperating social enterprise with part time work for school leavers. providing operational support for the Ku'arlu Mangga (Good Nest) Aboriginal Art Centre. All our programs experience cost pressures, with real costs increasing and project funding supplementation, eroding. We have limited capacity to fundraise in our own community and limited access to corporate sponsors. The help we receive, including grants, tends to favour capital works and signage. Our activities promote good nutrition, literacy , resilience, self expression including cultural pride, and economic opportunity. The children we work with are highly vulnerable, often talented, in poor housing, with poverty, violence, trauma and substance issues at the forefront of daily life.

We have continued with chronic disease management , integrated team care and Aboriginal Health as well as continuing to support GP's and Primary Health Care providers in the region, as well as The Disability in Schools and Community program. Despite the challenges of 2020 with the Covid19 pandemic WHN attracted 2,000 new clients delivering 59,000 GP and nurse appointments, (3,000 via telehealth). During this time the ICDC and ITC teams conducted welfare checks on clients in collaboration with other service providers.

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Generating funds to distribute to the beneficiary being Ability Centre Australasia Ltd who can then purchase services, equipment and any other initiatives for the benefit of people with cerebral palsy as determined appropriate by the Trustees of the Foundation.

We took donations of new and used school stationary from schools, businesses and individuals. We then sorted, cleaned and tested them to put into Give Write School Packs to distribute to schools in WA for disadvantaged students who otherwise came to school with nothing. See our website at givewrite.org.au

The mission of Frankston Mornington Peninsula Local Learning& Employment Network Inc. (FMPLLEN) is to improve education, training and employment outcomes for vulnerable and at risk youth in the Frankston Mornington Peninsula Region and to ensure that young people are holistically supported through their career and pathways. We will effectively engage with appropriate stakeholders form education, training, employment business and industry, parents sectors of the community to achieve our vision. We will facilitate and broker strategic partnerships to support sustainable outcomes for at risk youth. This includes indigenous, disability, and vulnerable cohorts to provide local sustainable outcomes that address gaps in our community. We will support and provide training, education as required.

We worked with the children at Dajarra State School to create and perform their story about 'Tiddalik the Frog' in Mt Isa. We established a relationship with the very remote Indigenous community of Alpurrurulam and facilitated drama and storytelling workshops which culminated in a performance for the community. Our organisation had its Theory of Change document completed to illustrate how our programs with change children's lives.

We're an innovative registered health promotion charity that wraps mental & physical health and wellbeing initiatives into an offroad touring format. In 2019/20, we worked closely with a number of schools and community organisations to deliver initiatives focussed on boosting resilience of young people (1417 year olds).

GSF provides one central philanthropic hub to drive significant enhanced philanthropic outcomes for the Greater Shepparton community. The Foundation focuses on supporting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in our community. It does so through a broad arrayof projects to benefit those in ‘necessitous circumstances’ in the areas of early childhooddevelopment and family education; unemployment with a focus on youth; discriminationand social isolation with an emphasis on our Aboriginal and culturally and linguisticallydiverse (CALD) communities; and generally assisting those with significant needs. Through listening, learning and local expertise, we identify ways to strengthen ourcommunity. Our focus is on the most urgent cases but we also aim to target the root cause of some of our wicked social issues including poor education outcomes for our young people; very high rates of youth unemployment and underemployment; and cultural discrimination and barriers to social inclusion. To this end, in GSF’s first full year of operation, we have undertaken projects, with great progress and success, to address these priority areas. Our Little Learners (early start to kinder) Program for children in our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) communities and the OLI (Oral Language Intervention) Program in some of the region’s lowest socioeconomic primary schools, target education and social deficits in children that are up to twice the rate of the State average. The Bilingual Health Educators program will advance the need for health and medical information to be offered in our CaLD communities first languages empowering women, and families, to access local health, and other professional, services that the rest of the community takes for granted. This program will train eight bilingual women to conduct information sessions and other education to their communities. GSF has been able to attract funding and skills from collaborating organisations to ensure the programs are ongoing and have the greatest chance of success. Our Lift Off Education Scholarships program to encourage Year 12 students to aspire to postsecondary education, is widely supported by our community, both financially and via mentorshipGSF has also provided grants to more than 20 local communityled, not for profit organisations undertaking work that aligns with our pillars. In response to some of the devastating impacts of COVID19 , the highly successful Food Link program saw funds raised to pay local catering businesses, forced to close their doors to customers, to cook meals for those who were facing food insecurity due to loss of work, isolation, homelessness, and families enduring the cost of remote learning. Also as a COVID response, GSF launched a statewide acclaimed video project that saw important COVID health and safety messages translated into eight languages targetting our local CaLD communities. Language was identified as the largest barrier to our community’s safety.

Mallee Family Care provided a broad range of social and welfare services across the north west of Victoria and south west of NSW, with funding predominantly from State and federal governments. These services included Out of Home Care and Family Support; Family Relationships Services; a Community Legal Centre; Financial Counselling; Mental Health and Wellbeing Support; Homelessness Support and Community Development In addition, we also conducted the Chances For Children program which provides educational and life opportunities to young people who might otherwise miss out due to a lack of financial resources. Mallee Family Care is also a registered provided of services funded by the NDIS

Little Dreamers is working towards an equal world for Young Carers, delivering programs aiming to improve quality of life. With an estimated 1 in 10 children in Australia giving up their childhood to provide unpaid care to a family member, Little Dreamers delivers empowering and proactive support programs to reduce the risk factors that they face and increase their life opportunities. All Little Dreamers programs have been developed by Young Carers, for Young Carers targeting each of the five main risk factors that these young people face social isolation, poor mental health, unemployment, financial and educational disadvantage. Founded in 2009, Little Dreamers supports thousands of Young Carers each year through direct support programs including Dream Experiences; holiday programs; mentoring and tutoring; inschool education and training; The Dreamers Hub, an online peer support platform; inperson peer support; and the Big Dreamers Personal Development Program. Within the wider community we also focus on advocacy for policy change, for more support and recognition for Young Carers whilst also raising awareness of the prevalence of Young Carers and how the community, the education system, friends and family can rally around for increased support.