Our Sub-Funds

Our Sub-Funds honour people who have made a valuable contribution to the lives of women and girls or in memory of special people whose own lives were remarkable in what they achieved.

Donations to Sub-Funds are a strategic investment in women and girls and will contribute to improving their lives today and in the future.

Currently, we have thirteen Sub-Funds and the number is growing every year. Each is designed with specific purposes to advance conditions for women and girls and to provide benefits in a range of ways.

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Sub Funds

Jan Webster and Sue Peterson Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports women exiting prison; educational and leadership opportunities for Aboriginal women; and pathways for women out of homelessness.

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Humanitas Sub-Fund

The Sub-Fund supports African women and girls in Victoria, enabling them to avail themselves of educational, employment and other economic opportunities in Australia.

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Christine Friday and Kathleen Pooley Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund seeks applications from Aboriginal community organisations for projects that support Aboriginal women and girls in Victoria.

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Fleur Spitzer Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports projects that increase the literacy, educational opportunities of women and girls or addresses barriers facing older women.

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Loula Rodopoulos Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports projects that assist women recovering from mental illness or programs which encourage young and established female writers.

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Con Irwin Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports circuit-breaking solutions to discrimination, violence against women and children or inequality of educational opportunity.

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Essie Burbridge Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports projects that provide leadership and achievement in cross-cultural understanding, and strategies for combating racism.

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Joan Hudson Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports projects that provide positive and effective community supports for mothers and their children or young women from less advantaged backgrounds.

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Prue Myer Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports immigrants and refugees and other disadvantaged girls and young women and provides them with positive mentoring opportunities or ways to improve their educational outcomes.

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Fay Marles Equal Opportunity Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports projects that provide leadership training, research and education on equal opportunity issues.

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Jean McCaughey Social Justice Sub-Fund

This Sub-Fund supports research projects that relate to women in the areas of homelessness, poverty and family well-being or strengthening local communities.

Create a Sub-Fund

Would you like to make lasting impact in the community? Are you passionate about strategic, gender-wise philanthropy?

Establishing a Sub-Fund within the Victorian Women’s Benevolent Trust is a practical and lasting way for you to strategically invest in advancing opportunities or reducing barriers for women and girls in Victoria without any administrative burden.

Create a Sub-Fund