The board of Coolaroo Foundation on a site visit to Odonata Sanctuary.
19 DECEMBER 2026. That’s a wrap for us at Coolaroo Foundation. Come and celebrate our 2025 grant partners with us!
Firstly, thank you for being part of our journey this year — for following along, engaging with our work, and helping us celebrate the incredible organisations we’re privileged to support. Now more than ever, our shared humanity matters, and we’re grateful to play a small part in strengthening it.
We extend our heartfelt congratulations and thanks to our 2025 grantees:
ROCC for Women — for their compassionate support of women in the Shoalhaven experiencing disadvantage, at risk of homelessness, or reintegrating into community following release from custody. We look forward to the continued growth of their support programs and wellbeing workshops in 2026.
BackTrack Youth Works — for their unique, holistic approach to supporting young people doing it tough in Armidale; for mobilising an inspiring emergency clean-up crew following the Taree floods; and for the working dogs who play such a vital role in creating connection, safety and trust when it’s needed most.
RAS Foundation — for supporting regional, rural and remote students with the financial assistance that makes further education possible, no matter where they call home. We’re cheering on all the incredible Rural Scholars.
Bundanon — for delivering In This Place, an innovative, multidisciplinary learning program for local high-school students experiencing disadvantage, set within the extraordinary Bundanon arts precinct and surrounding Country.
Bravehearts — for bringing vital personal safety education to preschool and early primary children across the Shoalhaven and NSW South Coast region, through the engaging and age-appropriate Ditto’s Keep Safe Adventure live incursion.
We may be a small foundation — just four years in the making — but we’re only just getting started. Here’s to more growth, deeper connection and meaningful impact in 2026 and beyond.
From our families (new babies, grandbabies and fur babies included) to yours, we wish you a healthy, happy and restful festive season. See you in 2026.
