Local Bayside community organisations including Rosie’s Youth Mission, BABI Youth and Family Services and Redlands Primary Sports League are among 12 recipients to receive a welcome funding boost from Port of Brisbane’s $100,000 Community Grants Program.
Every year since 2013, Port of Brisbane Pty Ltd (PBPL) has awarded $100,000 in grant funding to community organisations and registered charities, helping them deliver important initiatives across south east and southern Queensland with a key focus on community, youth leadership, education and environment.
This year also marks the Community Grant Program’s 10th year, with over $1million awarded to 81 community focused organisations since its launch.
PBPL CEO, Neil Stephens, congratulated this year’s recipients and thanked them for their valuable work.
“We’re incredibly proud to support a diverse range of organisations and projects that truly make a difference to their local community,” said Mr Stephens.
“This year’s Port of Brisbane grant funding is supporting a range of initiatives and services with organisations based across our trade hinterland including the Bayside, greater Brisbane area and west to Chinchilla.
“Many of our community partners have told us that the demand for their services continues to grow, particularly as cost-of-living pressures increase. It’s our hope that this funding will help their services go that little bit further.
“We’ll also work with them to identify volunteering opportunities for our employees, to enable our people to give back to the community as well.
“We congratulate and thank all the grant recipients for the vital work that they are doing in their communities.”
A full list of the Port of Brisbane 2023/24 Community Grant Recipients, and the initiative the grant funding is supporting, is listed in the table below.
| Organisation | Initiative |
|---|---|
| Rosies Youth Mission | Installation of a stainless-steel servery in Rosies’ new Wynnum Manly outreach van. |
| Drought Angels | Supporting farmers impacted by natural disasters, mental wellbeing issues. |
| Marigurim Mubi Yangu Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders Corporation | Supporting a healing journey program for First Nations Women impacted by domestic violence. |
| Wynnum Manly Men’s Shed | Contributing to the purchase of CNC (Computer Numerical Control) Router to make bespoke aids for people with disabilities and schools. |
| Community Canteen | Supporting Laughs at the canteen, featuring some of Brisbane’s finest comedians to help raise funds to supply meals to women and children in temporary accommodation. |
| Redlands Primary Sports League | Inspiring healthy habits through accessible school aged team sports across the Redlands region. |
| Power of Engineering | Delivering the Engineer in a Box program to local schools, showing students the role engineers play in a community, demonstrating creative thinking, problem solving and collaboration. |
| Tingalpa State School | A commemorative Song Line mural to celebrate the school’s 150th anniversary. |
| BABI Youth & Family Services | Youth Voice Committee, Leadership Camp. |
| CoralWatch | Supporting citizen science activities focused on the beauty and value of corals in Moreton Bay. |
| Bayside Creeks Catchment Group | Providing nesting sites for endangered birds and mammal species found to have reduced breeding sites in the local area. |
| The Mission to Seafarers | Contribution to a new Foreign Exchange and Point of Sale business system. |