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Congregation community development projects
2006 AFTINET
$8,000 to continue campaign on trade issues.
2006 Asian Women at Work
$8,000 to undertake a new stage of Community Training and Applied Strategic planning program.
2006 NSW Sorry Day Committee
$2,500 towards the recognition of Sorry Day in 2006 to assist with travel and accommodation for Indigenous Australians.
2006 The House of Welcome
$8,000 to provide dental care to asylum seekers.
2006 Claymore Neighbourhood and Youth Centre Inc
$2,500 towards the cost of a trip to New Zealand for disadvantaged youth.
2006 The Sydney Hiroshima Day Committee
$6,000 to establish an annual festival of short films on the theme of peace.
2005 Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
$4,771 for the purpose of purchasing new office equipment.
2005 Fair Wear NSW
The previous $8,000 granted had been diverted to a campaign against the impact of the Federal Government’s new IR legislation. A further $8, 000 was granted to pursue the original project of encourage manufacturers to sign Homeworkers’ Code of Practice.
2005 Jubilee Australia
$8,000 as a contribution towards employing a campaign worker who will work on ensuring the commitment of the Australian Government is committed to the Millenium Development Goals.
2005 UnitingCare Lismore Regional Mission/Lismore Community Caring Action Group
$8,000 for the employment and infrastructure support of a worker to research the extent of homelessness in Lismore and appropriate responses.
2005 House of Welcome
$8,000 for a socialisation project to alleviate social isolation and develop independence of refugees on Temporary Protection Visas, Bridging Visas and Return Pending Visas.
2005 NSW Sorry Day Committee
$3,600 towards the budget for Sorry Day Events in the city of Sydney on Thursday 26 May 2005.
2004 Claymore Neighbourhood and Youth Centres Inc.
a grant of $4,000 to assist in funding an eleven-day field trip for 10 young people .
2004 Paddington UCA
Eddie Dixon Centre: $6,240 to employ welfare worker for additional hours to investigate needs of homeless people and people with mental illness attending the centre, develop new options for meeting those needs and find ongoing sources of funding.
2004 South Sydney Parish (Redfern)
$8,000 for South Sydney Herald while it seeks new sources of revenue. This is a community paper which “carries affirming news of life, invites discussion of local issues and presents the church as a body which can share in creating a wider good and more just world”.
2003 Asian Women at Work
$1,500 for statistical data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics for research into where women from Chinese and Vietnamese women likely to be in low paid employment are located, as a basis for strategic planning of new programs to meet their needs.
2003 The House of Welcome (NSW Ecumenical Council)
a grant of $13,224 in order to employ a volunteer coordinator for one year. It was noted that the cost of employment is $11,400 with an additional 16% on costs.
2003 Asian Women at Work
Funding to work with Lao women outworkers in the garment industry, in cooperation with the Lao Community Advancement (NSW) Cooperative $8000
2003 Thornleigh Hillcreast Uniting Church
For a program to provide English conversation classes for Koreans $3500
2003 Campbelltown Youth Services
Camp for disadvantaged young people $4000
2002 Bidwell Uniting Church Community Centre
Teacher/co-ordinator for 1 day per week for 6 months for a tutoring/mentoring program
2002 Balmain Uniting Church
Research into situation of asylum seekers who have been granted Bridging Visas and are living in the community $8000
2002 Paddington Uniting Church
Staging "Barking Mad", an educational drama from Queensland dealing with mental health issues
2002 Safe Haven for Women and Children
(Based at Lakemba Uniting Church) Development of a strategy for the future development of the project $7500
2002 Parramatta Mission
8,000 to employ a consultant who would assist the Mission to identify and trial new models of emergency and long term accommodation, especially for people living with mental illness.
2002 Jubilee Australia/ Drop the Debt Campaign
$5000 for the continuation and development of the Drop the Debt Campaign.
2002 Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)
$5500 to develop materials for publication as part of a community education campaign.
2002 ELM Centre
$2000 for Social Justice Expo 2002 - A Just and Righteous Land.
2002 Fair Wear Campaign
$8000 for developing their web page.
2001 The Wellspring [Canberra City Uniting Church]
$7,500 for a consultant project officer.
2001 NSW Ecumenical Council
$8000 for a House of Welcome for people released from the Villawood Detention Centre on Temporary Protection Visas.
2001 WESTS
$3,000 addition to previous grant for project dealing with tenants on the Pottery Estate at Lithgow.
2001 Paddington Uniting Church
$2,000 to assist the Creative Art workshop of the Drop In Centre
2001 Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
$4510 to replace photocopier.
2001 Yarra Bank Films
$4,000 for establishing web site on homelessness.
2000 ELM Centre
$500 towards the 2000 Social Justice Expo.
2000 WESTS
$6000 to Western Sydney Tenants' Service and Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre for a project involving the housing rights of persons living on the Pottery Estate at Lithgow. Development education projects.
2000 United Theological College
$5,000 towards the cost of a visit by Risatisone Ete to the College during the first semester 2000. Mr. Ete is a second generation New Zealand Samoan engaged in doctoral studies in contextual theology.
2000 United Theological College
$2,500 to pay airfares and materials for Mr. Emmanuel Garibay to be invited as an artist in residence at the Centre for Ministry for 2-3 weeks during 2000.
2000 NSW Fair Wear Campaign
$5,000 to continue their work in regard to the further campaign around the Homeworkers Code of Practice.
1999 Interns in Mission
$5,000 towards the publication of a new edition of a book detailing the experiences of young people in the Interns in Mission Program.
1999 Goorie Good News Ministry
Funding for a training program in art work and woodworking, for the Koori community in Grafton who are unemployed.
1998 Parramatta Regional Mission Leisure Club
book for Schizophrenia Awareness Week
1999 Board of Mission - overseas young people at National Christian Youth Convention
Bringing one young person from Sri Lanka and two from Indonesia to NCYC in January 1999 with a view to sharing stories and building bridges with young people in the UCA.
1997 Wellington Parish - empowering sole parents in a rural district.
1996 Eastside Parish - visit of Philippino artist Emmanual Garibay
to raise awareness of human rights issues through an art exhibition, workshops and participation in community events such as the Paddington markets.
1996 Parramatta Leisure Club - purchase of computer equipment to assist in a consumer health project
1996 Richmond -Windsor Parish -
Wilberforce community garden project, involving low income people living in a caravan park.
1996 Life After Prison, the Hunter
An ecumenical project providing accommodation for ex-prisoners.
1995 Camden Parish and Macarthur Lifeline
providing assistance to workers laid off by Clutha mine closure.
1995 Parramatta Leisure Club
tree planting project
1994 Dubbo Parish
renovation costs for a property being used by Family Support Counsellors
Development education projects
2006 Micah Challenge Australia
$7,857 to produce and distribute a DVD to assist church congregations to become more actively involved concerning global poverty.
2006 Blue Mountains Parish, Uniting Church
$800 to establish the Blue Mountains Homework Network.
2005 AFTINET
$8,000 towards its budget for its trade research and campaigning in 2005-6, which will focus on the Australia – China FTA, GATS and other new bilateral trade agreements.
2005 The Mineral Policy Institute
$8,000 towards a project providing online materials on the links between Australian mining operations and human rights abuses of surrounding communities, and awareness raising of these issues.
2005 Asian Women at Work
$8,000 as a capacity building grant for the first two stages of a staff training and documentation program, which will enhance the performance and work of the staff.
2005 Hiroshima Day Committee
$8,000 to promote Hiroshima Day activities to bring a prominent speaker to Australia to emphasise the message that “neither nuclear weapons nor more sophisticated weapons will bring peace and justice”.
2005 Force Ten
$1,340 to organise seminars on the subject of trafficking of women and children in Asia.
2005 Pacific Islands Council of the Uniting Church
$7,000 to meet the cost of undertaking a training camp for Pacific Island youth.
2004 National Council of Churches, Decade to Overcome Violence
a grant of $8,000 to develop the “Seeds of Peace” project.
2004 Jubilee Australia (Drop the Debt Campaign),
seeking a grant of $8,392 to fund an additional day per week of the campaign worker.
2004 Micah Challenge
$8,100 for promoting United Nations millennium development goals within churches and encouraging advocacy about the goals, especially in churches and movements that do not have a social justice tradition. The aim is to also to build an advocacy campaign broadly based in the churches.
2004 Fairwear
$8,000 for a project to encourage manufacturers to sign Homeworkers’ Code of Practice. One strategy will be to encourage and empower outworkers to become more public advocates of the campaign.
2004 Second Burma Ethnic Reconciliation Conference
$8,000 to hold a conference to assist in developing communication between different ethnic groups from Burma who live in Australia, to empower them to work together and to raise awareness of Australians about “the pivotal role of ethnic minorities in the discussion on Burma, and to build networks.
2004 Public Interest Advocacy Centre
$8,000 towards a phase 2 of their educational project to help people understand the need for the protection of human rights in Australia. Phase 1 was a kit. Phase 2 is a train the trainer program.
2004 The NSW Council for Intellectual Disability
a grant of $4,532 for the production of two brochures which will assist persons with disability and their families, to better access services.
2004 AFTINET
a grant of $8,000 towards the employment of a community campaign worker for one year to work on trade issues with community groups and politicians.
2003 AFTINET - $7000 for publications looking at the problems with the USA FTA with Australia which was finalised in February 2004, and teleconferences for the public education campaign associated with this.
2003 International Campaign to Ban Landmines - Australian Network NSW Branch – request for $8000 for a part time campaign worker and other costs for Landmines Action Week, 14-21 May 2004.
2003 Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation ANTAR - $4,871 for upgrading office equipment.
2003 Jubilee Australia
Campaign worker for one day a week in 2004 $7800
Website upgrade $9327
2003 Force Ten
Speaker and interpreter from East Timor for Simply Sharing Week May 2004, to speak to churches and schools $8400
2003 Fairwear
Campaign worker to encourage designers to sign the Code of Practice $8000
Training program for non-government organisations who engage in merchandising of clothing, to ensure they comply with the Code of Practice. $5000
2003 Project Respect
Preparation of case and representation at the Coroner's inquiry into the death of Phuongtong Simplee, who was detained at Villawood Detention Centre $8000
2003 Concord Congregation UCA
Visit of Rev.Dr. Mohan Larbeer, Principle of Tamilnadu Theological College, to lead Bible studies and talk about the Indian Dalit community $6000
2003 Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)
Campaign worker to continue the community education campaign November 2003 - June 2004, $8000
Train the trainer workshop about World Trade Organisation General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and the USA-Australia Free Trade Agreement $1980
2003 Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR)
Office equipment to enable campaigning to continue $4871
2002 United Theological College
Visit of Dr Monica Melanchthon, a Lutheran Old Testament Scholar, to UTC to be scholar in residence for 1 month in 2004 $7500
2002 Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre
Grant towards the Pottery Estate Project in Lithgow, defending tenants rights. $4100
2002 Fairwear
Purchase of computer equipment $4000
2002 NSW Ecumenical Council - House of Welcome
Training and coordination of volunteers $8000
2002 National Christian Youth Convention 2003
Speakers from overseas to address the role of faith in combating injustices in their local context $8000
2002 National Coalition for Gun Control
Campaign to seek banning of semi-automatic handguns $8000
2002 Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)
Community education project about Australia's trade policies, the World Trade Organisation and its General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and new negotiations on investment, competition policy and government procurement. $8000
2002 Jubilee Australia/ Drop the Debt Campaign
$5000 for the continuation and development of the Drop the Debt Campaign.
2002 Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET)
$5500 to develop materials for publication as part of a community education campaign.
2002 ELM Centre
$2000 for Social Justice Expo 2002 - A Just and Righteous Land.
2002 Fair Wear Campaign
$8000 for developing their web page.
2001 Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation
$4510 to replace photocopier.
2001 Yarra Bank Films
$4,000 for establishing web site on homelessness.
2000 ELM Centre
$500 towards the 2000 Social Justice Expo.
2000 United Theological College
$5,000 towards the cost of a visit by Risatisone Ete to the College during the first semester 2000. Mr. Ete is a second generation New Zealand Samoan engaged in doctoral studies in contextual theology
2000 United Theological College
$2,500 to pay airfares and materials for Mr. Emmanuel Garibay to be invited as an artist in residence at the Centre for Ministry for 2-3 weeks during 2000.
2000 NSW Fair Wear Campaign
$5,000 to continue their work in regard to the further campaign around the Homeworkers Code of Practice.
1999 Interns in Mission
$5,000 towards the publication of a new edition of a book detailing the experiences of young people in the Interns in Mission Program.
1998 Home Truths - FairWear (NSW) Schools Kit
The issues of outworkers in the garment industry can be raised in a number of areas of the school curriculum, ranging from religious studies to textile and design. This kit, launched on 4 March 1999, provides resources for teachers in a number of subject areas.
1998 Funding Participants at NCYC
One grant enabled two young people from Indonesia and one from Sri Lanka to participate in the National Christian Youth Convention in January 1999. It gave Australian young people the opportunity to meet young people from these two countries, and the three young people the opportunity to experience a different context. A second grant enabled recently arrived Cambodian young people from Cabramatta Parish to participate in NCYC, to have a wider experience of Australian young people and the Uniting Church.
1998 Centre for Ministry (Sydney)
- part funding to bring the Philippino theologian Sharon Ruiz Duremdes as Thatcher Lecturer. Sharon was also involved in a number of other sessions of seminar week 1998 at United Theological College, which was on the theme of Theology for real people.
1998 NSW Ecumenical Council
- kit for parishes Walking with Indigenous Australians. The kit was launched on 17 November 1998. Contact the NSW Ecumenical Council on (02) 9929-2215 for a copy of the kit.
1998 sponsorship of the March 1998 issue of the journal of National Shelter, National Housing Action.
This was necessary because the Commonwealth Department of Social Security discontinued funding for National Shelter, the peak community body on housing issues.
1996 Social justice expo.
The fund was one of the sponosors underwriting the first NSW Social Justice Expo, designed to equip church members to take action on social justice issues.
As well as direct education programs, we contribute to organisations that engage in development education work, such as Action for World Development.
1995 About Face -organising a leaders' training conference.
About Face is a national education program of the Uniting Church involving young people in "exposure trips" to various situations of injustice.
2001 Lifeline Newcastle and Hunter
$8,000 for a community education centre in Tighes Hill, Newcastle.
2000 Inner City Legal Centre
$8,000 for a project to assist in the promotion of the rights of persons living in boarding houses.
2000 Asian Women at Work
$3,000 for the training of workers in community development.
2000 ANCORW Cooperative Limited
$7,382 for a program of English language classes for Asian women workers.
1999 FairWear Campaign
Funding for the Campaign worker (see below) to continue in 1999. This campaign is definitely raising the outworker issue with the community, schools, manufacturers and retailers. In addition, in late 1998 and early 1999, the Campaign worker represented FairWear as an interested party recognised by the Court in the recent court case about whether clauses relating to outworkers should be retained in the relevant award.
1999 Self-help group for Vietnamese women outworkers
Funding for a community worker part time for six months and for expenses in meeting a group, in the Bankstown-Campsie area. This project is sponsored by the Australian National Committee on Refugee Women. The project aims to empower Vietnamese women as leaders in their community. More information on the situation of outworkers is available from the FairWear website.
1998 Fairwear Campaign (NSW)
Part funding for campaign worker to assist with campaign to persuade manufacturers to sign code of practice to ensure rights of outworkers in garment industry. The campaign involves encouraging consumer awareness and action. "Ask about the labour not the label". The fund will also contribute to the cost of the campaign worker for the third stage of the Campaign, in 1999.
1998 Fairwear Schools Kit
This kit will be available by early 1999, to assist teachers to raise the issues of the Fairwear Campaign at relevant points in the curriculum. For further details, contact Lisa Adley, the NSW FairWear worker on (02) 9380-9091.
1997 Fairwear Campaign (NSW)
Part funding for campaign worker to assist with campaign to persuade retailers to sign code of practice to ensure rights of outworkers in garment industry. The campaign involves encouraging consumer awareness and action. "Ask about the labour not the label".
1994-5 Sponsorship of Asian Women at Work.
2% for Development provides seed funding for such organisations, giving them a chance to establish themselves and locate ongoing funding from other sources. Asian Woman at Work is a community organisation that works with Australian migrant women of non-English speaking background. The aim of this project was to undertake a social history of public and community housing in NSW through the voices of present and past public tenants.
1997 Blue Mountains Community Legal Centre Inc,
for training young people in tenancy matters - rights and responsibilities as tenants to encourage self-reliance and empower young people to take action on their own behalf as tenants. Many young people experience age discrimination in the housing market.
1996 Ecumenical housing (Victoria)
for a national housing policy project. This project, which had a number of sponsors, led to a report and a campaign in several states under the banner of the "Churches housing reform agenda".
1994 Public Interest Advocacy Centre
grant for trialling a new program on advocacy and human rights training.