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PROJECT FUNDING OR GRANT APPLICATION

Project Support and Partnerships

The Tom Aynsley Foundation supports a small number of carefully selected projects and initiatives aligned with its charitable purposes.

The Foundation’s work is currently focused in two areas:

  • supporting sustainable community development in coffee-growing regions of Papua New Guinea; and

  • supporting awareness, connection and community-led responses relating to sudden and unexplained cardiac death and sudden cardiac arrest.

Across both areas, the Foundation takes a considered, partnership-based approach rather than operating as an open grant-making body.

Supporting sustainable coffee-growing communities

In Papua New Guinea, the Foundation supports projects that strengthen education, agricultural sustainability and long-term economic opportunity in coffee-growing communities.

Support may include funding, practical assistance or other forms of partnership to help communities:

  • improve access to education and essential infrastructure

  • strengthen agricultural capability and productivity

  • build skills, resilience and self-sufficiency

  • improve outcomes for families dependent on small-scale coffee production

The Foundation’s approach is deliberately practical and collaborative. Support is intended to enable local initiative and engagement, with projects designed to build capacity and deliver lasting benefit over time.

Community engagement and shared responsibility

Projects supported by the Foundation are expected to demonstrate strong local engagement and community participation.

The Foundation places importance on:

  • clear community need and local leadership

  • shared responsibility for delivery and outcomes

  • practical pathways to sustainability beyond initial support

This approach reflects the Foundation’s belief that meaningful, durable change comes through partnership rather than dependency.

Sudden and unexplained cardiac death and arrest

In Australia, the Foundation supports activities aligned with awareness, understanding and community connection relating to sudden and unexplained cardiac death and sudden cardiac arrest.

This support may include practical, non-clinical assistance for initiatives that reduce isolation, foster shared understanding and provide respectful spaces for connection for families, survivors and communities affected by these events.

While the Foundation may from time to time support or make donations to established organisations that undertake medical or scientific research — including research into genetic or other causes of unexplained cardiac arrest and death — the Foundation does not itself fund, direct or provide medical or clinical services.

Enquiries and proposals

The Foundation considers proposals and partnership enquiries that align clearly with its charitable objects and current areas of focus.

Given the Foundation’s size and governance structure, support is necessarily selective and focused.

If you wish to discuss a potential project or initiative, please review the relevant guidelines and contact the Foundation to determine whether your proposal is within scope.

Supporting documentation

Please download the following documents for further information:

FUNDING & GRANT APPLICATION
FUNDING & GRANT GUIDELINES