Community
Community Investment
Myer’s involvement in the community stems from our founder’s tradition of philanthropy. We believe that by engaging with and contributing to the communities in which we live and work, we can have a positive social impact, make a lasting contribution and help achieve positive change.
About the Myer Community Fund
The Myer Community Fund is the national charity of Myer Pty Ltd, it is a public ancillary fund and governed by its own Board. Myer Community Fund is committed to raising funds through charitable activities involving Myer team members, customers and suppliers. The Myer Community Fund is focused on supporting children and families in Australia.
Annually, the Myer Community Fund engages with and supports more than 58 charities across Australia.
In FY25, Myer Community Fund was proud to raise over $2.7 million to support children and families in Australia, including those experiencing or at risk of family violence. Funds were directed to our national charity partners The Salvation Army, The Alannah & Madeline Foundation and local charity partners nationally.
Through the FY25 Small Grants Program $395,172 of funding was awarded to 18 charities, to support the important work they undertake in supporting vulnerable people in our community. Projects/programs funded included:
- Safe Families, Youth Engagement & Wellbeing Project – Act for Kids
Support vulnerable young people who have experienced domestic and family violence or are at risk of harm, through delivery of group programs that prevent future violence & support youth wellbeing.
- Althea House, Chill Out Room –Althea Projects
Creating a safe, comfortable space for children (aged 0-12) on child protection orders, who we care for. Funds will assist with furnishing and improvements. The Chill Out Room will support many strategies and provide a private space for children to receive in home therapeutic supports such as counselling, which will lead to better long-term opportunities to engage within a family-based placement and become high functioning adults.
- The Re-establishment Program – Anchor Inc.
Funding supports families escaping family violence to re-establish themselves in a new location with all the items the household requires to function successfully in a new and safe home.
- Myer Care Kits for Qld Kids in Care or Crisis – Care Kits for Kids Qld Inc
Provide 250 children with complete Care Kits. Care Kits contain new clothing, toiletries, stationary/activity packs, toys and books.
- Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention Project – Centre for Womens Safety and Wellbeing Inc.
The aim of the project is for people who are delivering FDV prevention initiatives to engage men and boys safely and effectively. The evidence-based project includes intensive training and ongoing support to deliver local Family Domestic Violence prevention initiatives.
- Student Wellbeing Program – Doncare
To ensure that children and young people experiencing disadvantage can participate in a range of activities and access services that would otherwise be beyond their families’ financial capacity. Funding will support increased access to educational resources and trauma-informed counselling.
- Childrens Support Services – The Lucy Saw Centre
Funding will assist children affected by Family and domestic violence, enabling them to participate in social activities such as sports and other activities that promote a healthy lifestyle, have a positive impact and lead to better learning outcomes.
- 2025 New Year Fresh Start Program – Zephyr Education
Providing uniforms, school bags, shoes & school essentials such as laptops and ipads to children impacted by Family Violence. Funding will support approximately 189 children.
- Bags of Love – Impact for Women Inc.
Funding assists with the purchase of goods to include in Bags of Love. Bags contain toiletries, essential items and other gifts and are given to women in crisis, many who have been impacted by family and domestic violence. These bags help restore a sense of dignity and show these women they are valued and cared for.
- Safe at Home Trial – McKillop Family Services
Safe at Home will transform the default system where women ‘escape’ family violence and become homeless: instead, they are supported to stay home safely in their communities and people using violence are supported to stop. Funding will support the development of marketing materials and engagement with community groups, schools and workplaces to ensure families know the program is available to them.
- The Welcome Home Project – Protea Place
The Welcome Home Project provides a critical element to the recovery and safety of women and their children after experiencing Domestic Family Violence and homelessness. Funding will support setting up safe houses, and cover the cost of essential furniture and whitegoods, beds and linen, ensuring women escaping family violence, and their children have a safe secure home to live in, allowing them to recover and heal.
RizeUp create havens of comfort and security for women and children escaping violence, allowing families to focus on school, work and community connections, rewriting their future. RizeUp volunteers arrive at empty houses and fully furnish them with practical, yet much-needed items to make safe homes, curated especially for each family exiting refuge.
- Children’s Essential Support– Sunshine Bendigo
Funding will support the purchase of cots, car seats, nappies, food & toiletry items as required to ensure vulnerable children are supported whilst alleviating some of the financial pressure of their parent/caregivers.
- Therapeutic Domestic and Family Violence Services – The Family Co.
Providing wraparound therapeutic support and programs to women and children to support them with impacts of trauma, disadvantage and domestic and family violence.
Individual parent support – inclusive of counselling/art therapy/support sessions which allow parents to address unique concerns in relation to their family’s trauma and receive professional support on approaching change
Parent/child sessions - interactive activities to rebuild connection between parent/child, support healing in their relationships, and improve attachment
Children’s sessions - explore their internal experiences, emotional well-being, reduce anxiety, improve self-esteem, and develop skills and resilience
- Safe T – Safe Transition out of Family Violence
Introduce culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women and community to the NSW legal and court system through a series of court visits. CALD women are reluctant to speak up and are less likely to leave a Domestic Family Violence situation then other Australian women. The court visit program will break down the fear of reporting, support women and families to leave DV and break the cycle of returning to Domestic Violence.
- Family Violence and Sexual Assault, understanding and responding training – The Sexual Assault and Family Violence Centre
Provide training for a minimum of 160 community members. Offering free community context-relevant training is a strategy and intervention providing an understanding and response to family and sexual violence within all places we live, learn and work.
- Rise and Thrive, Skills for Life Program - Wanslea
This program is designed to assist disengaged youth aged 13-17 years who have been subjected to Family Domestic Violence and are accessing alternative education pathways. The focus of the program is on developing a range of independent life skills including, self-care, building healthy relationships, pathways to employment.
- EmpowerHER – Zahra Foundation
Support to digitize programs. Digitisation will allow Zahra to deliver critical services such as financial counselling, education, training and empowerment programs in a flexible, accessible format, ensuring that more women across Australia can benefit from our life-changing support, regardless of their circumstances.
Partnerships with Myer
Myer has a long-standing history of community support and engagement, and we continue to maintain strong and meaningful partnerships with our local communities. We do this by partnering with leading charitable organisations seeking to address measures of change and support the needs of the vulnerable for a safer and more secure future.
FY25 National Charity Partner – The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is one of Australia’s largest welfare providers dedicated to helping people in crisis. The Salvation Army provides a diverse and responsive suite of services for people escaping family violence, ranging from prevention to early intervention and crisis and high-risk responses.
FY25 National Charity Partner – The Alannah & Madeline Foundation
The Alannah & Madeline Foundation is a national not for profit organisation dedicated to keeping children and young people free from violence and trauma wherever they live, learn and play. Support is offered through care programs, prevention programs and advocacy programs.
Contact
Enquiries regarding Myer Community Fund can be directed via email to
myercommunityfund@myer.com.au
.
About the Myer Community Fund
The Myer Community Fund is the national charity of Myer Pty Ltd, it is a public ancillary fund and governed by its own Board. Myer Community Fund is committed to raising funds through charitable activities involving Myer team members, customers and suppliers. The Myer Community Fund is focused on supporting children and families in Australia.
Annually, the Myer Community Fund engages with and supports more than 58 charities across Australia.
In FY25, Myer Community Fund was proud to raise over $2.7 million to support children and families in Australia, including those experiencing or at risk of family violence. Funds were directed to our national charity partners The Salvation Army, The Alannah & Madeline Foundation and local charity partners nationally.
Through the FY25 Small Grants Program $395,172 of funding was awarded to 18 charities, to support the important work they undertake in supporting vulnerable people in our community. Projects/programs funded included:
- Safe Families, Youth Engagement & Wellbeing Project – Act for Kids
Support vulnerable young people who have experienced domestic and family violence or are at risk of harm, through delivery of group programs that prevent future violence & support youth wellbeing.
- Althea House, Chill Out Room –Althea Projects
Creating a safe, comfortable space for children (aged 0-12) on child protection orders, who we care for. Funds will assist with furnishing and improvements. The Chill Out Room will support many strategies and provide a private space for children to receive in home therapeutic supports such as counselling, which will lead to better long-term opportunities to engage within a family-based placement and become high functioning adults.
- The Re-establishment Program – Anchor Inc.
Funding supports families escaping family violence to re-establish themselves in a new location with all the items the household requires to function successfully in a new and safe home.
- Myer Care Kits for Qld Kids in Care or Crisis – Care Kits for Kids Qld Inc
Provide 250 children with complete Care Kits. Care Kits contain new clothing, toiletries, stationary/activity packs, toys and books.
- Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention Project – Centre for Womens Safety and Wellbeing Inc.
The aim of the project is for people who are delivering FDV prevention initiatives to engage men and boys safely and effectively. The evidence-based project includes intensive training and ongoing support to deliver local Family Domestic Violence prevention initiatives.
- Student Wellbeing Program – Doncare
To ensure that children and young people experiencing disadvantage can participate in a range of activities and access services that would otherwise be beyond their families’ financial capacity. Funding will support increased access to educational resources and trauma-informed counselling.
- Childrens Support Services – The Lucy Saw Centre
Funding will assist children affected by Family and domestic violence, enabling them to participate in social activities such as sports and other activities that promote a healthy lifestyle, have a positive impact and lead to better learning outcomes.
- 2025 New Year Fresh Start Program – Zephyr Education
Providing uniforms, school bags, shoes & school essentials such as laptops and ipads to children impacted by Family Violence. Funding will support approximately 189 children.
- Bags of Love – Impact for Women Inc.
Funding assists with the purchase of goods to include in Bags of Love. Bags contain toiletries, essential items and other gifts and are given to women in crisis, many who have been impacted by family and domestic violence. These bags help restore a sense of dignity and show these women they are valued and cared for.
- Safe at Home Trial – McKillop Family Services
Safe at Home will transform the default system where women ‘escape’ family violence and become homeless: instead, they are supported to stay home safely in their communities and people using violence are supported to stop. Funding will support the development of marketing materials and engagement with community groups, schools and workplaces to ensure families know the program is available to them.
- The Welcome Home Project – Protea Place
The Welcome Home Project provides a critical element to the recovery and safety of women and their children after experiencing Domestic Family Violence and homelessness. Funding will support setting up safe houses, and cover the cost of essential furniture and whitegoods, beds and linen, ensuring women escaping family violence, and their children have a safe secure home to live in, allowing them to recover and heal.
RizeUp create havens of comfort and security for women and children escaping violence, allowing families to focus on school, work and community connections, rewriting their future. RizeUp volunteers arrive at empty houses and fully furnish them with practical, yet much-needed items to make safe homes, curated especially for each family exiting refuge.
- Children’s Essential Support– Sunshine Bendigo
Funding will support the purchase of cots, car seats, nappies, food & toiletry items as required to ensure vulnerable children are supported whilst alleviating some of the financial pressure of their parent/caregivers.
- Therapeutic Domestic and Family Violence Services – The Family Co.
Providing wraparound therapeutic support and programs to women and children to support them with impacts of trauma, disadvantage and domestic and family violence.
Individual parent support – inclusive of counselling/art therapy/support sessions which allow parents to address unique concerns in relation to their family’s trauma and receive professional support on approaching change
Parent/child sessions - interactive activities to rebuild connection between parent/child, support healing in their relationships, and improve attachment
Children’s sessions - explore their internal experiences, emotional well-being, reduce anxiety, improve self-esteem, and develop skills and resilience
- Safe T – Safe Transition out of Family Violence
Introduce culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women and community to the NSW legal and court system through a series of court visits. CALD women are reluctant to speak up and are less likely to leave a Domestic Family Violence situation then other Australian women. The court visit program will break down the fear of reporting, support women and families to leave DV and break the cycle of returning to Domestic Violence.
- Family Violence and Sexual Assault, understanding and responding training – The Sexual Assault and Family Violence Centre
Provide training for a minimum of 160 community members. Offering free community context-relevant training is a strategy and intervention providing an understanding and response to family and sexual violence within all places we live, learn and work.
- Rise and Thrive, Skills for Life Program - Wanslea
This program is designed to assist disengaged youth aged 13-17 years who have been subjected to Family Domestic Violence and are accessing alternative education pathways. The focus of the program is on developing a range of independent life skills including, self-care, building healthy relationships, pathways to employment.
- EmpowerHER – Zahra Foundation
Support to digitize programs. Digitisation will allow Zahra to deliver critical services such as financial counselling, education, training and empowerment programs in a flexible, accessible format, ensuring that more women across Australia can benefit from our life-changing support, regardless of their circumstances.
Partnerships with Myer
Myer has a long-standing history of community support and engagement, and we continue to maintain strong and meaningful partnerships with our local communities. We do this by partnering with leading charitable organisations seeking to address measures of change and support the needs of the vulnerable for a safer and more secure future.
FY25 National Charity Partner – The Salvation Army
The Salvation Army is one of Australia’s largest welfare providers dedicated to helping people in crisis. The Salvation Army provides a diverse and responsive suite of services for people escaping family violence, ranging from prevention to early intervention and crisis and high-risk responses.
FY25 National Charity Partner – The Alannah & Madeline Foundation
The Alannah & Madeline Foundation is a national not for profit organisation dedicated to keeping children and young people free from violence and trauma wherever they live, learn and play. Support is offered through care programs, prevention programs and advocacy programs.
Contact
Enquiries regarding Myer Community Fund can be directed via email to
myercommunityfund@myer.com.au
.
