Investing in Victorian women & children since 1887

OUR IMPACT

WE WORK WITH SOCIAL WORKERS, WHO ARE IN THE BEST POSITION TO DETERMINE HOW TO HELP THE WOMAN IN NEED.

They continue to support her after our emergency relief has been provided to ensure that she gets her life back on track.

Our research shows our grants are a targeted and valuable tool for welfare agencies, particularly because
we can react quickly to urgent requests.

 

WHY WOMEN NEED OUR HELP

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Feedback from social workers and our evaluation process tells us our assistance:

  • Prevents homelessness;

  • Assists a woman and her children to escape domestic violence;

  • Assists education and training through the payment of fees, cost of uniforms, camps, educational supplies and computers;

  • Increases a sense of self-worth, skills and knowledge through education and training;

  • Increases access to employment opportunities to enable women to become financially secure;

  • Improves health through the payment of essential medical bills and the purchase of essential medical items;

  • Prevents disconnection of essential utilities;

  • Makes life less trying through the replacement/repair of vital household items;

  • Provides a crucial breathing space so a woman can get her life back on track; and

  • Enables attendance at medical appointments, provides women with the ability to drop their children at childcare or to feel safe and secure or connected to their community by keeping their car on the road.

 

“Early indications suggest that women have been suffering some of the worst economic impacts of the current pandemic.”

We live in unprecedented times. Following the devastating bushfires this summer, and with the outbreak of COVID-19 so closely on its heels, many of us have understandably turned inward.

 

 

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CELEBRATING 133 YEARS
OF ONGOING SUPPORT

Founded in 1887, by Lady Loch, the wife of the Victorian Governor, to commemorate the 50 years of Queen Victoria’s reign, and in response to the worst mining disaster Australia had experienced; an explosion at the Bulli coal mine killed 81 miners and injured many more.

The Queen’s Fund is today one of Victoria’s oldest charities, run by women for women. Through emergency grants up to $350, we assist Victorian women and their children, in distress or crisis. Emergency relief helps in one-off situations, but may also assist women to deal with ongoing financial disadvantage.

In 1998, The Queen’s Fund set up the Education Fund to assist children to remain in education and allow women to further their education so they can find long-term employment and become financially secure.

 
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