NSW - Australia
Assisting Disadvantaged Young Persons
The Ted Noffs Foundation provides counselling and treatment to young persons experiencing problems with alcohol or drugs. Vocational-educational counselling and training is also provided, assisting young persons to go back to school, to enrol in a training institution or to enter the job market.
These funds will help us achieve positive outcomes for young people experiencing drugs/alcohol and mental health problems - Wesley Noffs, Chief Executive Officer.
NT - Australia
The Pandanus Project
The success of past weaving projects has spread the word and created demand from women in communities where little support and assistance is provided for activities. There is a huge need for improving well-being, self-esteem, maintaining cultural traditions and developing artistically into new areas, as well as passing on skills and knowledge to younger generations.
Providing employment capacity for Indigenous women through the cultural practice of weaving is an appropriate method to increase capacity to generate income for community families. Katherine Regional Arts Inc. is excited to support local Indigenous women, Andrina Duncan and Dorcus Thompson, to develop and train with Adrienne Kneebone (Fibre Artist) as fellow tutors.
QLD - Australia
Long Grass Men's Activity Group
The Club is extremely grateful for the opportunity in which the Foster's Grant has allowed the organisation to provide this wonderful service to homeless and disadvantaged men in our community. The support will bring a sense of self worth, fun and enjoyment while the physical health and wellbeing of the men will improve - Mr Kelly, 139 Club Manager.
QLD - Australia
Cochrane Artificial Reef
The Cochrane Artificial Reef project begun back in 1987. To date it has seen nearly 3,000 tonnes of material including barges, fishing vessels, light ships, aircraft and purpose built fish habitat modules deployed within the designated reef area which lies approximately 4.5 kilometres off the coast of Bundaberg, Queensland. The reef supports a diversity of acquatic life - including fish and coral species - and provides a world-class fishing and scuba-diving experience.
We are absolutely delighted to have been awarded a Foster's Community Grant which will provide desperately needed funding and enable us to continue building the reef which will continue to be a wonderful recreational, tourism and environmental asset for generations to enjoy.
SA - Australia
Cultural Awareness Program
Foster's group funding will help support our arts program, which is of great need in the Adelaide Aboriginal community, in turn helping alleviate some of the stress and anxiety that many of our clients have.
VIC - Australia
Drug and Alcohol Preventative Education Program
The Incolink Drug and Alcohol Preventative Education Program aims to reduce the risk of unsafe work practices associated with the use of drugs and alcohol in the building and construction industry. The program works with apprentices and young workers to increase awareness of the implications of drug and alcohol use as well as equipping them to make safe and responsible choices in relation to drugs and alcohol.
With the support of Foster's, this program is being implemented across regional Victoria.
VIC - Australia
Healthy Habits
The Healthy Habits project will assist Odyssey House Victoria educate people undergoing residential drug treatment about healthy food and lifestyle choices over the coming year. The project will employ a nutritionist to develop individual dietary plans for residents and their children at the 80-bed Therapeutic Community in Lower Plenty, Victoria.
People who seek alcohol or other drug treatment often have terrible eating habits and they have usually neglected their health. This grant from Foster's in the Community will help us to better address the knowledge that our clients have about nutrition, as part of their overall recovery and start of a new life - Dr. Stefan Gruenert, CEO.
VIC - Australia
Charcoal Lane
Located in an historic bluestone building at 136 Gertrude St, Fitzroy, Charcoal Lane is an exciting, new dining experience that pays homage to modern Australian cuisine with an Aboriginal influence. The Charcoal Lane Program provides opportunities for disadvantaged Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal young people to access waged employment in a supported, real-work environment. Participants are part of an integrated program that includes personal skills development and accredited training in hospitality.
Charcoal Lane draws on Mission Australia’s experience in working with Indigenous communities and delivering life-transforming programs and services. The support for this project provided by the Foster's Community Grants Program will help us make a real difference in the lives of disadvantaged young people empowering them on the pathway to sustainable employment." Toby Hall, CEO, Mission Aust.
VIC - Australia
Rites of Passage - Towards a Safe Future
This project, led by Somebody's Daughter Theatre artists & young people from HighWater Theatre, will be workshopped with Wodonga Middle Years College students in a creative arts environment. The project provides students with the opportunity to research and record rites of passage, health issues, family histories and personal stories to produce a drama or documentary that addresses the misuse and abuse of alcohol & drugs in rural communities.
The arts work where all else has failed. Our work is with those that would normally not have access to the arts. Our work is not only about making the arts available but ensuring that those we work with are the carriers of the story. Our work is also very much about underlining the importance of the arts without the word “therapy” which is so often simply about exclusion.
VIC - Australia
Multicultural Leaders in Sustainability
Environment Victoria’s Multicultural Leaders for Sustainability (MLS) is an innovative leadership program that works with young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Working in partnership with the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY), up to 36 young people will complete the sustainability and leadership training program and go on to deliver sustainability projects within their communities.
Multicultural Leaders for Sustainability provides the opportunity for young people from a diverse range of backgrounds to learn more about the issues we face in our state, and to do something positive about it. The support from the Fosters Group will help us build the skills of these young leaders, seeing more environmental champions working in our community. Kelly O’Shanassy, CEO.
VIC - Australia
Recovery and Resilience Art Therapy Project
The Art Therapy project aims to help in the recovery of trauma suffered by young children as a result of the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires. The process of creating art is known to assist in personal growth and healing in children, helping alleviate emotional stress and anxiety.
This Foster’s Community Grant will allow us to provide substantial support to young children suffering trauma as a result of the fires in the Yarra Ranges and to equip them with life-long coping skills which will benefit them in future bushfire seasons and when facing other potential traumas throughout their lives’. Dr Ray Cleary AO, CEO Anglicare Victoria
VIC - Australia
With One Voice Program - Maribyrnong Sings
We are thrilled to have the support of Foster's to support this important program which will assist migrants with their networks, self esteem and employment pathways. Creativity Australia's With One Voice "Maribyrnong Sings" program will bring together a range of people from the region to sing and meet in harmony. Founder of Creativity Australia, Tania de Jong AM, Founder of Creativity Australia.
VIC - Australia
Geelong Wheelchair Training Camp
Parallel Sports Inc. is a volunteer support group in Geelong assisting people with physical disabilities to access and participate in sport and recreational activities including a January wheelchair training camp in Geelong for junior and developing to train alongside a variety of athletes and coaches thereby providing both athletes and the community enormous benefits from coaching, mentoring and companionship generated by this project.
The act of thinking about and then actually getting into an adaptive sports chair is just the start of a long road to the enjoyment and wellbeing benefits from participating in sport. With thanks to the Foster's Group, this grant will enable Parallel Sports Inc. to continue offering the benefits of this camp to the participants and the Geelong community.
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VIC - Australia
Food Education R&D Project
This project aims to research issues around food insecurity and to evaluate the impact of SecondBite's service to families. It will increase SecondBite's capacity to develop educational and preventative programs to bridge the gap between surplus fresh food and people in need, focusing on providing nutritious food to people ahead of emergency food relief.
We are delighted to receive this funding which will increase SecondBite’s capacity and resources in the area of research and development. This is an important investment for the future if SecondBite is to understand the issues around food insecurity and the role that SecondBite can play in developing and evaluating educational and preventative food relief programs.
