The 2024 Tobin Brothers Foundation Awards
The Tobin Brothers Foundation distributes annual grants to community organisations
About the Foundation
Established in 1984 to mark the company’s 50th anniversary, the Tobin Brothers Foundation makes annual grants to organisations and individuals whose work can be shown to have meaningful “community benefit”.
The Tobin Brothers Foundation underscores the company’s long term philanthropic commitment to assisting community projects in the Melbourne area.
Since its establishment, the Foundation has made over 386 separate monetary awards totalling over $883,000 to an array of worthy community groups.
Tobin Brothers Foundation Award Recipients for 2024
The Tobin Brothers Foundation Trustees have granted 10 Tobin Brothers Foundation Awards for 2024.
The 2024 Tobin Brothers Foundation Awards were presented at the Tobin Brothers Celebration of Life Chapel on 18th February 2025 and the recipients are as follows:
The Nappy Collective is the only Australian nonprofit that focuses solely on collecting nappies and distributing them to families in crisis.
$5000
A pastoral support service for victims/survivors of Church-related sexual abuse.
$5000
A leading not-for-profit organisation providing specialised grief support to children and young people across Victoria, who have experienced the death of a parent.
$5000
The Babes Project works with women facing crisis and challenging pregnancies. Empowering new mothers through pregnancy and the first crucial year of baby’s life.
$5000
A voluntary group who hold regular meetings to support people who are having or have had thoughts of suicide, or are grieving the loss of someone through suicide.
$5000
Helping people living with memory loss by delivering a person centre program in a warm, friendly and inclusive environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
$3000
The Leila Rose Foundation is dedicated to assisting families affected by Rare Childhood Cancer.
$5000
Hotham Mission is a faith-based, non-profit organisation which provides education support, food relief and other general support to young people and their families in the North Melbourne and surrounding areas.
$5000
Rosies Oblate Youth Mission is a not-for-profit organisation that provides friendship to society’s most vulnerable through the simple gesture of a free hot or cold drink from their van.
$5000
Koha Community Cafe is a community based project where ANYONE can come and have a meal, pay what they can afford or what they think it is worth. Koha's aim is to promote inclusion, and community self reliance.
$5000
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