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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 fifteen Sub-Funds and the number is growing every year. Each is designed with specific purposes to advance conditions for women, girls, non-binary and gender diverse people in Victoria and to provide benefits in a range of ways.

Our 2022 Sub-Fund Grants Program is open. Apply now.

Jan Webster and Sue Peterson Sub-Fund

Jan Webster and Sue Peterson Sub-Fund

Sub Funds

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

Humanitas Sub-Fund

Humanitas Sub-Fund

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

Christine Friday and Kathleen Pooley Sub-Fund

Christine Friday and Kathleen Pooley Sub-Fund

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This Sub-Fund supports Aboriginal community organisations with projects aimed at supporting Aboriginal women and girls in Victoria.

Fleur Spitzer Sub-Fund

Fleur Spitzer Sub-Fund

Sub Funds

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

Loula Rodopoulos Sub-Fund

Loula Rodopoulos Sub-Fund

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

Con Irwin Sub-Fund

Con Irwin Sub-Fund

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

Essie Burbridge Sub-Fund

Essie Burbridge Sub-Fund

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

Joan Hudson Sub-Fund

Joan Hudson Sub-Fund

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

Prue Myer Sub-Fund

Prue Myer Sub-Fund

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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.

Fay Marles Equal Opportunity Sub-Fund

Fay Marles Equal Opportunity Sub-Fund

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

Jean McCaughey Social Justice Sub-Fund

Jean McCaughey Social Justice Sub-Fund

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

The Alma and Albert Tivendale Sub-Fund

The Alma and Albert Tivendale Sub-Fund

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Alma and Albert Tivendale promoted physical activity like dancing and sport. They also knew how to help women in need of medical support and these are the projects this Sub-Fund is looking for.

Ruth Owens and Kevin Lynch Sub-Fund

Ruth Owens and Kevin Lynch Sub-Fund

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This Sub-Fund supports projects that work to build equality for women who are single mothers, and refugee and migrant women.

The Union of Australian Women (Victoria) Sub-Fund

The Union of Australian Women (Victoria) Sub-Fund

Sub Funds

The Union of Australia Women Sub-Fund supports projects that offer Indigenous girls leadership and training opportunities.

Supriya Singh Sub-Fund

Supriya Singh Sub-Fund

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This Sub-Fund supports projects that financially empower women who have experienced violence and abuse or that deepen our understanding and communication of gender, money, power and control in intimate relationships.

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