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When we GIVIT Together, we have incredible impact
Listed below are large requests and big projects which trusted organisations registered with GIVIT need your help to fill. These aren't your everyday requests... they're supersized! These projects help people in all kinds of situations: people experiencing domestic and family violence, poverty or homelessness; Australians recovering from the Black Summer Bushfires, drought and other natural disasters; Indigenous Australians in vulnerable situations, and plenty more.
Join forces with your club, sports team, work colleagues, school, group of mates, family, club or community group to raise funds, offer a service, and collect donations. When we GIVIT Together, we help get life-changing items to the people who need them most.
VICTORIA
Support for Refugees
Refugees are regularly arriving in Australia with no personal possessions after fleeing their home countries. They are ready to rebuild their lives, and you can help them feel welcome.
Pyjamas for kids & teens in crisis
This Melbourne organisation provides crisis packs for people experiencing domestic and family violence, homelessness, mental ill-health, and financial hardship due to COVID-19. They need donations of new children's pyjamas.
Grocery vouchers for cancer patients
This charity provides practical, financial and emotional support to cancer patients. They're seeking grocery vouchers to help cancer sufferers through the expensive Christmas period.
Help bushfire recovery in regional Victoria
Victorians are gradually recovering from the Black Summer Bushfires more than twelve months ago, but COVID-19 has slowed recovery. You can help
Fund a Voucher
‘Fund a Voucher’ supports communities across Victoria with vouchers to purchase essential items like food and petrol. Giving someone a voucher makes them feel valued, and empowers them to purchase exactly what they require, when they are ready.
QUEENSLAND
Help a needy family this Christmas
This Gympie organisation supports over 50 families including 100 children locally, with the ultimate aim of preventing them from entering the child protection system. They're seeking donations to help buy Christmas presents and ease the financial burden this festive season.
School essentials for First Nations kids
This Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community organisation is holding their annual Back to School Day to get local kids ready for the new school year, and are seeking donations of stationery items.
Items for vulnerable women transitioning back into the community
This organisation supports women transitioning back into the community, who have often experienced complex trauma, and face many barriers reintegrating into society. Donations of public transport cards, grocery vouchers and smartphones are urgently needed.
Gift vouchers for Queenslanders affected by domestic & family violence
The needs of people impacted by and escaping from domestic and family violence are varied and complex. They need many different items, especially if they're starting from scratch without their personal possessions. In these cases, gift vouchers are preferable to items.
Support for Refugees
Refugees are regularly arriving in Australia with no personal possessions after fleeing their home countries. They are ready to rebuild their lives, and you can help them feel welcome.
Essential items for new mums and bubs
Every new mum should be celebrated. Sadly, that isn't always the case. Donations of baby items, nappies, toys and toiletries are needed to for struggling mums in hospital with their newborns.
School shoes for disadvantaged kids in Cairns
This community organisation runs a back-to-school initiative each year for kids in Cairns, and they helped 2000 children in need last year. In 2021, they need your donations of school shoes to help as many disadvantaged kids as possible get back to school.
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
Furnishings for Children's Family Centre
This organisation is where families come to have supervised contact with their children, who are in foster care, out of home care or transitional care. The facility is 60 years old, and is in urgent need of a makeover to create a more comfortable and family-friendly environment. Can you help?
Support for Refugees
Refugees are regularly arriving in Australia with no personal possessions after fleeing their home countries. They are ready to rebuild their lives, and you can help them feel welcome.
Baby items for First Nations mums
This Canberra-based support organisation is putting together gift bags for First Nations mums to encourage medical check-ups for their young children and babies, and is seeking donations to fill these bags. Can you help?
ACT COVID Quarantine Support
Lots of Canberrans are currently quarantining after testing positive for COVID, or being identified as a close contact. Many people and families are struggling financially, and are in need of donated items to help them get through their quarantine period.
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Self-care supplies for young mums
Toiletries and educational toys are desperately needed for a support group helping young mums who are facing pressures due to housing crisis and isolation.
Christmas hampers for First Nations Australians
Help this regional WA organisation fill Christmas hampers to bring some Christmas cheer to First Nations Australians who've been impacted by domestic and family violence.
Support for Refugees
Refugees are regularly arriving in Australia with no personal possessions after fleeing their home countries. They are ready to rebuild their lives, and you can help them feel welcome.
NEW SOUTH WALES
Give Where You Live | Southern Highlands
A region is only as strong as its community. Southern Highlanders are a resilient bunch, but some people in the community are hurting. Drought, bushfires, storms, COVID-19 induced tourism and job losses - it's been a tough few years for a lot of people. But giving back is easier than you think.
Helping bushfire victims rebuild homes and properties
More than twelve months after the Black Summer Bushfires, residents are fighting tooth and nail to get their lives back to normal. Many of them need assistance rebuilding and repairing their homes and properties. Can you help?
Items for a residential secondary school for vulnerable young people
Dunlea Centre in Southern Sydney is a co-educational residential secondary program that caters for vulnerable young people at risk of disengagement from education. Dunlea Centre is requesting a number of items used in lessons including music equipment.
Support for Refugees
Refugees are regularly arriving in Australia with no personal possessions after fleeing their home countries. They are ready to rebuild their lives, and you can help them feel welcome.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Help South Australian foster kids
This organisation helps foster kids and vulnerable families in Adelaide. They're requesting a range of items to help kids and foster parents, and to help them deliver camps, activities and community food nights.
Volunteer with GIVIT
We need passionate people to join our team as volunteers for 8-15 hours per week. You'll build GIVIT's profile and raise awareness with donors and charities in your region, encourage registration of new eligible organisations to the GIVIT service, re-engage inactive organisations and more!
Appeals
Rather donate directly via an appeal? No worries! Choose from the options below:
- Severe Storms and Flooding
- Domestic and Family Violence
- NSW Bushfires
- Victoria Bushfires
- Indigenous Support
If you donate to a specific appeal, 100% of your donation received by GIVIT is used to purchase items for that appeal, and only that appeal. This is made possible thanks to generous donors who choose to support GIVIT.
