Recovery & Resilience 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.
Grants continue to support Black Summer bushfire recovery
26 Nov 2020 – FRRR, in partnership with News Corp, has awarded 18 communities impacted by the Black Summer bushfires a total of $341,280 in grants for 20 projects that will support the recovery…
Local BTS partners sought in bushfire-affected areas
06 Oct 2020 – The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal is seeking local partners in bushfire-affected LGAs to help with the distribution of more than $767,000 in $50 vouchers thanks to a special…
More than $400,000 in grants awarded for Bushfire Recovery
29 Sep 2020 – FRRR, in partnership with News Corp, has awarded a further $410,159 in grants to support the recovery of rural communities impacted by the Black Summer bushfires. News Corp has also…
Visy Tumut Region Recovery Fund supports a further 13 community-led projects
12 Aug 2020 – The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal, in partnership with the Pratt Foundation, has granted a further $241,386, through the he Visy Tumut Region Recovery Fund, to support 13 community-led…
Grants help create sanctuaries for fire-affected youth
09 Jul 2020 – Sony Foundation Australia, together with FRRR, have today announced two grants that will help young people in Mallacoota, VIC and Ulladulla, NSW, affected by last summer’s bushfires.
Families in bushfire-affected communities receive help getting Back to School
30 Jun 2020 – FRRR ran a special round of its Back to School program, which provides $50 gift vouchers to students in rural communities. Nearly 4,000 students impacted by the 2019/20 bushfires have…
Grants help put local people in charge of recovery
30 Jun 2020 – Thanks to support from R.M.Williams and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, FRRR has awarded two $25,000 grants to support the Orara Valley and the Blue Mountains in their recovery from…
Nearly $140,000 in grants for bushfire-affected communities
25 Jun 2020 – The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal has awarded $138,815 in grants for 12 community-led projects in rural, regional and remote communities impacted by the Summer bushfires, through its Strengthening…
News Corp Bushfire Recovery Program grants awarded
18 Jun 2020 – The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal, in partnership with News Corp Australia, has awarded $368,386 to support 21 projects across the country that will help in the recovery of rural,…
Visy Tumut Region Recovery Fund awards further grants
05 May 2020 – The Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal, in partnership with the Pratt Foundation, has granted a further $79,600 to support four projects that will help Tumut Region communities recover from…