Community Stories
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.
Local place-making in Mirboo North
20 Oct 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…
Farmers Fighting Climate Change
20 Oct 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
20 Oct 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
11 Oct 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”
07 Oct 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…
Catering for the crowds in Hannaford
07 Oct 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…
From dust to dances – Dancing in the Dirt gala ball gives town a break
07 Oct 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…
Heritage hotspot
06 Oct 2021 – The township of Orroroo in South Australia are familiar with the challenges that come from extreme drought. With a Tackling Tough Times Together grant they were able to design plans…
The Lions help save lives through mobile skin cancer check unit
06 Oct 2021 – A Strengthening Rural Communities grant was out towards converting a caravan into a mobile screening clinic for skin cancer.
Attract, Connect, Stay: SARRAH’s bold plan
05 Oct 2021 – On average, people in rural and remote Australia experience much higher rates of chronic disease, avoidable illness, and are far more likely to be hospitalised. Services for Rural and Remote…