Donate your way for our winter appeal…

With three different options – the choice is yours.

Donate to SmartMeals Appeal

Help vulnerable people receive a meal, prepared by food based social enterprises this winter.

Donate to Flood Relief

Support Flood Affected communities in NSW and QLD rebuild and restore their lives this winter.

Donate to Making a Home Appeal

Donate towards vulnerable people like Susan set up their new home with white-goods and household items.

As the recent flood waters receded the full scale of the disaster was revealed across huge areas of NSW and QLD, leaving thousands without a home. These areas were already in a housing crisis, with a chronic lack of affordable rental housing, resulting in rising levels of homelessness and rental stress.

Incredibly, the demand for accommodation during the current school holidays and the upcoming Bluesfest in Byron Bay has resulted in affordable rental properties and motels being even harder to come by, with some residents having had to leave the short term rentals they were offered post floods. Many residents have had no other option but to move back to flood damaged properties, live in their cars, caravans, or couch surf.

SmartMeals was established in March 2020 as an emergency response to COVID-19, providing nutritious meals for people impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, while also keeping hospitality workers in jobs. Today we are continuing to provide ready-made meals to vulnerable people, made by food based social enterprises.

Food security remains a challenge for many people unexpectedly made unemployed through COVID-19, and for people who were previously experiencing poverty and homelessness. Social enterprises cafes were hit hard by COVID and these partnerships are helping them rebuild, providing training to their vulnerable staff. Please help us to keep taking action against hunger.

Setting up someone for tenancy success is a vital part of any homeless support service, but funding for household items is hard to come by. Making-a-Home is an initiative that supports frontline homelessness services to give people the best possible chance of a successful new start.

People are experiencing a crisis recently fuelled by the impacts of Covid-19 which saw rising rent and uncertain employment. With continuing under-investment in social and affordable housing, finding secure and safe accommodation is incredibly difficult, particularly for Australians already living on the margins.

“Goodna Street Life's crisis accommodation at Helens Haven (8 rooms) went under in the floods. We established a temporary evacuation centre for our tenants and other flood affected people who were being evacuated from their homes, made homeless in the floods. The grant is facilitating accommodation for people, providing bedding, food, clothing and essentials.”
Steven PurcellGoodna Street Life

“Shining Stars Foundation is 100% volunteer based and we are supporting the homeless in flood affected areas across Macarthur, south Sydney and Camden NSW areas. We operate with 2 second hand vans, and volunteer’s vehicles, to distribute emergency food relief, frozen meals, non-perishable food hampers and much needed homeless packs to those sleeping on the streets.”
Kylee BenthamShining Stars Foundation

“Our housing clients are young LGBTIQA+ people aged 16 to 25. We provide case management and support for 25 clients in transitional housing tenancies which includes assisting them in purchasing essential items to start the tenancy. This financial support will be invaluable in helping to set up our clients for a successful transition to independent living and the next stage of their lives.”
Mish PonyTwenty10, Sydney

Corporate and Workplace Giving

You can choose to nominate StreetSmart Australia as your charity of choice for workplace giving. Every month your donations will help support a range of important projects providing care and aid to vulernable people experiencing homelessness.

Donations made to StreetSmart Australia over $2 are tax deductible. StreetSmart Australia (ABN: 51 106 387 446) is endorsed by the Australian Tax Office as a deductible gift recipient under the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. StreetSmart Australia is registered with the Australian Charities and Not for profit Commission (ACNC).

To Donate by Direct Bank Transfer:

“Our business has been supporting StreetSmart through workplace giving since 2015. Each month our team helps fund a new project and we get immediate feedback on how the money has been spent. We are really proud to be a part of such an important initiative, and our staff are too,” Justine Butler, ASIC in the Community Manager

Please send us an email of your donation, including donation amount, date, and donor name. We will send a tax deductible receipt to you.

Account name: StreetSmart Australia
Bank: NAB
BSB: 083-004
Acc Number: 17243-2803

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which our organisation is located and where we conduct our business. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present. StreetSmart is committed to honouring Indigenous peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society.

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