2024 Charity Partner ANNOUNCED as zara's house

2024 CHARITY PARTNER EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST - NOW CLOSED

This year will mark the 14th year of the Equal Futures Project’s International Women’s Day (IWD) breakfast. Over that time the group has raised over $250,000, which has been donated to various local charities who have partnered with us. Funds to be donated are not known until after fundraising events occur, however in the past few years the Equal Futures Project has contributed $5,000 to $14,000 in this process to Charity Partners in any one year.

Our charity partners in 2023 were:

Splash of Colour

“All funds we will receive through The Equal Futures Project will be used to spread our holistic learn to swim program to other parts of the Hunter #cessnock #maitland #muswellbrook where we have received strong interest and have a healthy waiting list of participants…..Your financial support will help us off our learn to swim program to more and more people in the hunter…Thank you for all you do in our region to ensure we have equal futures” Ennia Jones, Founder Splash of Colour Swimming.

Prelude Australia

“We were honoured to be chosen as a charity partner for this event alongside Carrie's Place and a Splash of Colour Swimming. Together we #EmbraceEquity and value diversity and inclusion.” Kimberly Lewis, General Manager, Prelude.

Carrie's Place

“Carrie’s Place would like to acknowledge the support and fundraising efforts of…Equal Futures Project….We appreciate your kindness and generosity” Carrie’s Place.

Major Fundraising Event

The Equal Futures Project’s 2024 IWD breakfast will be on Friday, 8 March, this is our major fundraising event. This is a corporate focused event to raise awareness of equity and diversity in our communities and our workplaces. We also use funds raised (net profit from ticket sales) at the event to support local organisations that are committed to diversity and achieving a more equitable and inclusive society.

We are looking for a local organisation to be the Equal Futures Project charity partner for 2024.

If successful, your organisation will receive money raised through our IWD breakfast.

A separate event, following the breakfast, will be organised to present the donation to the successful organisation. Social and other media coverage around this event will also provide an opportunity to promote the work of the organisation.

The chosen charity will require a fundraising certificate, enabling Equal Futures Project to fundraise on your behalf.

The successful charity will be asked to:

Provide a representative to support the IWD breakfast on 8 March, and
Provide a brief report and at least three social media updates including one that promotes the charity partnership with Equal Futures Project event details prior to the IWD event, one after the event and one that details how the donation has been spent, including how it benefited the community. All post acknowledging the support provided by the Equal Futures Project.
Provide a representative to support a donation handover event which will be either online via social media or in person.

Charity Partner 2024 Application Form

Join Our Team

Please submit a proposal addressing the criteria below (750 word maximum, photos/images welcome, maximum 5 pages).

An independent committee will assess all applications based on the above criteria.

Note: While all charities are welcome to apply, we will give preference to organisations that we haven’t supported in the last 5 years.

The selected charity partner will be advised via email by 12 December 2023 and announced on the Equal Futures Project website, Facebook and LinkedIn pages.

Any questions should be directed to equalfuturesproject@outlook.com with the subject line - Charity Partner Application.

Further information to note

The Equal Futures Project will only pay a donation if there are sufficient funds raised to do so. Charity Partners are not guaranteed a donation, nor any specific amount, the amounts paid prior provide an indication of past payments not guidance to future payments. Timing of notifications regarding donations will be determined by the Equal Futures Project (and is pending finalisation of our accounts post an event). Any decisions made by the Equal Futures Project (or delegated sub-committee) is final.