Supported groups
Womens' groups supported through the preferred donor fund
- Australian Women’s Archives Project
- National History Challenge Committee
- Australian Reproductive Health Alliance
- Birthing Kit Foundation Fund
- Children by Choice
- Holroyd High Fund for Refugee Girls
- Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts Inc
- Marian Eldridge Award
- Pamela Denoon Lecture Fund
- Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Trust and Shilling Fund
- Women’s Electoral Lobby (Australia)
- Women's History Month
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Australian Women’s Archives Project
Established with the purpose of supporting the preservation of women’s papers and providing ongoing access to those papers, particularly through a web based register.
Contact details
Email awap@nfaw.org
Phone Anne Buttsworth 02 6248 6480 or Marie Coleman 02 6248 6937
National History Challenge Committee
The National History Challenge is a competition that encourages Australian schoolchildren (from Years 5 to 12) to learn more about Australia and its past.
NFAW's National History Challenge Committee (NHCC) is responsible for raising sponsorship funds for the Women's Category Prize of the National History Challenge each year.
Contact details
Email nhcc@nfaw.org
Australian Reproductive Health Alliance
ARHA is a non-profit advocacy and educational organisation that was established following the 1994 International conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
ARHA monitors the Australian Government’s commitment to the ICPD and raises awareness in the community about population, development and reproductive health issues. ARHA works through parliamentary advocacy, conference organisation and prepares briefing materials, submissions, articles and papers.
ARHA is a member of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) and also has special NGO consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
Contact details
Street Address Level 1,4 Campion St Deakin ACT 2600
Mail Address PO BOX 41 Deakin West ACT 2600
Phone/Fax 02 6282 8922/ 02 6282 8933
Email arha@arha.org.au
Web site www.arha.org.au
Birthing Kit Foundation Fund
The Birthing Kit Foundation Fund helps save lives and suffering by providing for a clean birth thereby helping to prevent tetanus and other infections for mother and baby. The kit includes materials such as plastic sheeting, soap, gloves, cords, scalpel blade, gauze. Kits have been sent to Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Afghanistan, East Timor, Guatemala, Myenmar, Vietnam.
Contact details
Julie Monis-Ivett
Email ivettfam@picknowl.com.au
Children by Choice
Children by Choice aims to:
- assist economically disadvantaged women access pregnancy termination services
- enhance and expand counselling and community education services, and expand community awareness on the needs and rights of women in relation to their reproductive health services.
Contact details
PO Box 2005 Windsor Queensland 4030
Phone 07 3357 5570
Fax 07 3857 6246
Email admin@childrenbychoice.org.au
Web site www.childrenbychoice.org.au
Holroyd High Fund for Refugee Girls
Holroyd High Fund for Refugee Girls furthers the education of young women asylum seekers and refugees in Australia. The initial focus is on girls at Holroyd High School in Western Sydney.
Contact details
Dorothy Hoddinott
Phone 02 96920071 (h) 02 96367347 (w)
Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts Inc
Kurruru, meaning ‘circle’ in local Kaurna language, is Australia’s only Indigenous youth performing arts company. We are committed to providing quality performing arts opportunities for Indigenous children, young people and their communities across South Australia. Kurruru’s home is situated on Kaurna land in Port Adelaide (15km north west of Adelaide CBD). Kurruru provides an extensive performing arts workshop program, produces award winning performances, engages in significant regional arts and health partnerships, operates the renowned Kurruru Dance Ensemble and other deadly performance troupes, undertakes innovative Kulcha Moves projects that focus on cultural maintenance and continuance using an arts model, and has a presence across South Australia at festivals, community events and through our various partnerships. Kurruru is committed to employing and providing real pathways, mentoring and training opportunities for young Indigenous artists and artsworkers.
Contact details
Phone 08 8341 1150
Fax 08 8240 3450
Email info@kurruru.org.au
Address 135 St Vincent Street, PORT ADELAIDE SA 5015
Web site www.kurruru.org.au
Marian Eldridge Award
Makes a grant annually to an aspiring woman writer
Contact details
Phone Ann Foley 02 5947 1536 or Chris Goode 02 6230 1993
Pamela Denoon Lecture Fund
Pamela Denoon was National Coordinator of WEL from 1982-84. She actively lobbied for women’s rights in Canberra during the 1980s and established by bequest the NFAW and the Pamela Denoon Trust. An annual lecture is held in Canberra in her memory.
Contact details
Phone Philida Sturgiss-Hoy 02 62556375 or Jillian Davis 02 6295 0023
Email Ephilida@shoal.net.au
Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Trust and Shilling Fund
Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Trust and Shilling Fund fosters the vision of providing a physical and virtual space for women of Victoria to reach their full potential, bring about social change and provide opportunities for women to be inspired for the future.
Contact details
Ms Margaret Burdeu, General Manager, QVWC, L1 210 Lonsdale St Melbourne Vic 2000
Email women.fund@qvwc.org.au
Women’s Electoral Lobby (Australia)
Support of research and education projects
Contact details
Mrs Deborah Poulton, PO Box 191, Civic Square ACT 2608
Email welaust@dynamite.com.au
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is held annually in many parts of the world to acknowledge and document the role women play in making and shaping history. It is conducted in Australia in the month of March by the Australian Women's History Forum.
Contact details
Email info@womenshistory.com.au
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Founded in 1915, the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) empowers women to work effectively for peace and justice in every Australian state and territory, and in 45 countries around the world.
WILPF women stand for:
- Political solutions to international conflicts
- Disarmament
- The promotion of women to full and equal participation in all society's activities
- The respect of fundamental human rights and the right to development in a sustainable environment
- Economic justice within and among states
- Elimination of racism and all forms of discrimination
Contact details
Margaret Wood (Treasurer) wilpfaustralia@wilpf.org.au
Web site: www.wilpf.org.au