Breakthrough T1D

Breakthrough T1D, formerly JDRF Australia, was founded more than 50 years ago. What began as a dream in family homes across the world has grown into a global organisation dedicated to ending type 1 diabetes (T1D) by funding life-changing T1D research.

For the past five decades Breakthrough T1D has been working tirelessly towards this cause, with every single dollar raised committed to taking a cure from hope to reality – while improving the lives of people with T1D until that happens.

Flinders Foundation

At Flinders Foundation, we believe care should know no limits.

Every patient deserves the best possible treatment, every research initiative deserves the resources to succeed, and every family, everywhere, deserves hope and healing.

When you support Flinders Foundation, you make this possible — without exceptions.

Your ongoing support ensures doctors, nurses, and researchers can go further, push harder, and make exceptional care a reality for all.

From the research bench to the hospital bedside, supporting newborns in intensive care to groundbreaking medical trials, there are no boundaries to the difference we can make together.

We can create a world where care reaches every corner, where innovation breaks barriers for better health outcomes, and where lives are changed without limits – so that care can always go above and beyond. 

Flinders Foundation. Exceptional care, without exceptions.

Talk out Loud

At Talk Out Loud, we refuse to accept a world where young people feel unsafe, unheard, or isolated. Every young person deserves to be seen, supported, and empowered to thrive—and we are here to make that a reality. As South Australia’s only youth suicide-prevention network, our mission since 2016 has been relentless: to unmask stigma, elevate lived experience, and offer meaningful, long-lasting solutions that genuinely transform lives. What sets us apart is our commitment to meeting each young person where they’re at, offering tailored support that restores connection, builds resilience, and strengthens their sense of self.

Our comprehensive approach includes immersive Youth Empowerment Camps, our flagship THRIVE drop-in program, Real Talk mentoring, and accredited Mental Health First Aid training delivered to schools and communities. Each initiative is designed to equip vulnerable young people—and the adults who walk alongside them—with practical skills, emotional tools, and a powerful sense of belonging. Powered by devoted volunteers and sustained by community generosity, we’re not just supporting young people; we’re reshaping their stories, their pathways, and their hope for the future—one life at a time

Cancer Prevention & Support Association

The Cancer Prevention and Support Association (CPSA) provides essential patient accommodation to help individuals and families who must travel for cancer treatment. Their program focuses on offering comfortable, fully furnished, and self-contained homes that serve as a “home away from home” during what can be one of the most challenging periods in a person’s life. These homes are designed to reduce the financial, emotional, and physical stress associated with accessing treatment far from home, allowing patients and their loved ones to remain together in a private and supportive environment, and no cost to them.

CPSA’s accommodation network includes homes in Adelaide, Sydney, and Melbourne, each located conveniently close to major hospitals and treatment centres. Across all three cities, the homes are typically situated within a 5–10 minute radius of leading hospitals (some within walking distance) making daily treatment access significantly easier for patients travelling from regional or remote areas, whilst also allowing for family members to easily provide some of the most comforting things someone undergoing treatment may want, like a home cooked meal. 

By keeping families close and easing the burden of travel and housing, CPSA’s Patient Accommodation Program plays a crucial role in improving the quality of life for patients and their families throughout their cancer journey. Some stays can be a few days at a time, whilst others may be nine months or more. Regardless, CPSA provides this accommodation service at no cost, to ensure that everyone has access to treatment when they need it. The average cost of operating a single home is approximately $48,000 per year. Without government support, we rely on the generous support of the public to ensure that this service stays operating.

Lion Hearts

Lion Hearts Learning (LHL) is a not-for-profit, registered Charity that supports children and families impacted by cancer and children with low immunity due to health challenges

The four services Lion Hearts Learning offers are:

Face to Face as described above are for children ages 0 – 5yrs

LHL provides a free playgroup/pre-school service that ensures the environment is very clean/hygienic. No one can attend if they are sick. At the same time as being hygienic to the level that our children need we provide social, emotional and educational (preparing for school type learning) learning that is not available elsewhere for these children.

Children have the opportunity to be away from their parents/guardians and be independent. This ensures they learn to be confident, builds self-esteem and supports learning to assist them as much as possible to be school ready. When having independence of being in an environment without the protection of their parents, children are encouraged to make friends of their own, make decisions on their own, learn and live which in turn helps them to feel fulfilled, proud, happy and whole. It also helps them to be school ready.

‘On Lion’ (Online Sessions): 0 to all Primary ages 

For those children who cannot attend face to face sessions due to being unwell, are in hospital or live too far away, we run a live zoom sessions incorporating a range of activities such as jolly phonics, craft, storytelling, farm education, body movement, nutrition, socialisation, show and tell and more. 

Craft and Education Packs: 0 to all Primary ages

For children who are in hospital or at home and too unwell to participate in either face to face or online sessions. We post out craft and activity packs fortnightly to oncology children and siblings so they still have activities to do in their own time. This provides them with educational activities and entertainment, whilst also having the fun and the excitement of the packs arriving at their houses.

Butterfly House Respite 

Butterfly House, is a holiday home which is hygienic and safe for immunosuppressed people and offered to Lion Hearts Learning Families for free where they can all get together, away from their struggles and have a well-earned break.

Puddle Jumpers

Puddle Jumpers Inc (PJs) is a non profit, non-government organisation committed to responding to the social development needs of society’s most vulnerable children and young people; priority of our work is reserved for children who do not live with their birth parents.

We believe all kids matter, and deserve the right to engage in happy and fun experiences in their life.

Puddle Jumpers Inc commenced in May 2012, the first camp service ran in December 2012, a second camp and an activity day event was held in April 2013. Melanie Tate (Our CEO & Founder) devoted her time to the charity set up in a volunteer capacity to ensure children in need receive the services that they deserve.

In extension of those services, in February 2016, the first free food night was held at the original Puddle Jumpers premises in Forestville. Free Food Nights are still being held today at our current premises in Glandore to ensure that disadvantaged families and children are receiving the basic necessities that all of us deserve.