We fund trusted local partners who know the families who need help. Through them, we provide food and fuel vouchers, rental support, emergency relief and programs that help young people get on the road.
2,000+food and fuel vouchers, worth $62,390, since 2020
Our current partner programs
Each partner works directly with the people we help, so support reaches them quickly and close to home.
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Central Highlands Rural Health
Emergency relief and the LIFT (Locals Inspiring Future Transformation) program: food, fuel, household goods, medical costs and back-to-school support for people going through a crisis.
To ask about LIFT, call Central Highlands Rural Health on (03) 5321 6500.
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Child and Family Services (CAFS)
Rental support that keeps families housed, topping up CAFS’s limited funding. We have helped people living in their cars, families forced to leave their homes and, one Christmas Eve, a mother and her children with nowhere to stay.
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L2P learner driver program
Helps young people aged 16 to 21 who don’t have a supervising driver or a car to get the driving hours they need for their probationary licence. It’s run locally by The Ballarat Foundation with local volunteer mentors, and we bought a car for Hepburn Shire learners.
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Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre and the Good Grub Club
The Good Grub Club’s Thursday lunches and community pantry at the Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre, and support for local families going through hard times.
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Clunes Neighbourhood Centre
School lunches for Clunes students, paid for by the Foundation.
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Carmen’s Legacy
John Maher’s road safety presentation, delivered to students at Daylesford Secondary College. John shares the story of his own crash and of losing his daughter Carmen to help young drivers make safer choices.
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Inform and Empower
Cyber safety education in Hepburn Shire schools, helping students make good decisions online and build positive relationships with each other.
What our partners say
Its impact cannot be measured in dollars alone. It is seen in improved attendance and engagement, in stronger wellbeing, and in families who feel supported rather than judged.
Ali McHalliwell and Trudi BlickPrincipal and Assistant Principal, Daylesford Primary School Their work directly complements our own, and together we have been able to reach community members who might otherwise fall through the gaps.
Mary ChristodulakiManager, Mental Wellbeing Team, Central Highlands Rural Health We are grateful to The Daylesford Foundation for supporting our students, families and the broader school community. You are absolutely changing lives and making a difference.
Bridget FrancHead of Wellbeing, Daylesford Secondary College Your grant last year was extremely helpful to families who were unable to afford the costs of school events and supplies through the year.
Arthur LanePrincipal, Trentham District Primary School It has been such a huge help, especially for those students and families [who] need a bit of an extra boost to be able to participate in all of our activities at school.
Helen RomerilPrincipal, Creswick Primary School We have found the program to focus on so much more than cyber safety.
Tim HoganPrincipal, St Michael’s Primary School, on the Inform and Empower program
Our community network
The schools, services and organisations we work with and have supported across Hepburn Shire.
Schools
- Bullarto Primary School
- Clunes Primary School
- Creswick North Primary School
- Creswick Primary School
- Daylesford Dharma School
- Daylesford Primary School
- Daylesford Secondary College
- Hepburn Primary School
- Newlyn Primary School
- St Augustine’s Primary School, Creswick
- St Michael’s Primary School, Daylesford
- Trentham District Primary School
- Yandoit Primary School
Community and health
- Carmen’s Legacy
- Central Highlands Rural Health
- Child and Family Services (CAFS)
- Child Protection Ballarat
- Clunes Neighbourhood Centre
- Daylesford Community Childcare Centre
- Daylesford Community Op Shop
- Daylesford Neighbourhood Centre
- Good Grub Club
- Grampians Disability Advocacy
- Hepburn Health Mental Wellbeing
- Inform and Empower
- The Ballarat Foundation (L2P)
- YouThrive Victoria
Behind us
- Australian Communities Foundation
- Community Foundations Australia
- Community Bank Daylesford District
Partner with us
If your organisation works with young people or families in Hepburn Shire, we’d like to hear from you.