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The 2024 Kids Cover Competition

We have a winner! This year’s Kids Cover Competition received a record number of entries, and our absolute fave was designed by 12-year-old Frankie Kelly from Newcastle: a sunny, funny vision of Santa’s summer holidays. “I thought it would be really cool to combine the Australian lifestyle with Christmas, to create a scene on the beach,” she says of her stunning artwork. “I’m really into pop art and really bright and colourful pieces, and I wanted to use a few different mediums.”

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Grant Round Open for Social and Affordable Housing Projects in the ACT and Vic

Today Homes for Homes opens a new grant funding round for social and affordable housing projects, with up to $400,000 available for projects in the ACT and Victoria. This marks the sixth round of grants released to community housing projects by Homes for Homes.

$200,000 will be available in the ACT and $200,000 available in Victoria, with $100,000 specifically for social and affordable housing projects in the City of Casey. This is the first time Homes for Homes is granting funds in a specific local government area (LGA).

As always, we will continue to take a flexible approach to the projects it supports. Housing providers can apply for grant funding in either the ACT or Victoria, or both.

This grant round was made possible thanks to the support from developers and homeowners in the ACT and Victoria, in particular those from Canberra suburb Denman Prospect, Development Victoria’s Taylors Quarter project and Balcon’s Orana development in the Victorian City of Casey.

Both Denman Prospect (by Capital Estate Developments) and Orana register all their properties with Homes for Homes and donate 0.1% of the sale of each block to Homes for Homes. Donations are granted in the state/territory where they are raised, and donations raised from partner projects, such as Orana in the City of Casey, can be granted within a specific LGA.

Homes for Homes CEO Steven Persson said the organisation is delighted to continue their support of new projects.

“Homes for Homes is on track to be the largest non-government funder of social and affordable housing. We are thrilled to again be granting funds across the ACT and Victoria. These funds are a direct result of the generosity of homeowners and developers paying it forward to help create housing for those in our community who need it most.

“We thank all those who have registered their properties with Homes for Homes and those who contributed to this new grant round, in particular our strong partnership with Capital Estate Developments and Balcon Group.”

Homes for Homes has received over $2m in donations and has granted $1.28 million to social and affordable housing providers in the ACT and NT, Victoria and Queensland, across thirteen projects providing housing for 96 people. Learn more about our funded projects here.

Applications for funding close 5pm Friday 14 October 2022. Visit our funding page to apply.

Those interested in learning more about how to apply for funding can attend a webinar on Tuesday 13 September 2022 at 11am. Registrations for the webinar can be made here.