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Grants provide ongoing support for Junee and Nambucca Valley not-for-profits
01 Nov 2021 – Funding announced by FRRR today, is helping local community groups in Junee and Nambucca Valley to carry on their operations, despite multiple disruptions, by funding staff, developing efficient processes and…
Injalak Arts celebrates contemporary culture in Gunbalanya
26 Oct 2021 – Injalak Arts have used a $10,000 Strengthening Rural Communities grant to create The Mankarre Project. The project is centered around meaningful activities for people in community by celebrating local song…
Pambula paintings given pride of place
21 Oct 2021 – Professional artists from the Bega Valley are invigorating Pambula Village with vibrant and colourful large-scale artworks, thanks to a bushfire recovery initiative.
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.
Funding boosts vibrancy and wellbeing of rural communities across Australia
19 Oct 2021 – Community organisations across rural and regional Australia will share in more than $250,000 as Nutrien Ag Solutions, in partnership with the Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal, announced the recipients…
Rural communities share in more than $1.4M to build drought resilience
15 Oct 2021 – FRRR has awarded $1,413,319 to 33 remote, rural and regional communities across Australia for locally-led initiatives that will help build their region’s resilience to drought through the Australian Government’s Future…
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…
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