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GIVIT helps thousands of Australians in need every year by providing items, services and vouchers. GIVIT helps people impacted by natural disasters, domestic and family violence or homelessness, First Nations Australians, people living with disability or mental ill-health, and much more.
How to get help through GIVIT
To access donated items or services through GIVIT, please connect with a support organisation registered with GIVIT that can assess your needs and provide assistance. This organisation can then place a request on GIVIT on your behalf. Click here for more information on how to get support through GIVIT.
To find relevant organisations in your area, simply use the search fields below. Support organisations working with GIVIT that require anonymity will not be listed below.
In addition to the search function below, at the bottom of this page is a list of organisations and services that may be able to support you, depending on what you're experiencing. This includes disaster and emergency recovery support.
Name
Details
Forbes Preschool
We are a community based Preschool supporting 3yr to 6yr old children.
Forest Lake State School
We opened in January 1994 and our school has grown to become a large primary school catering for over 900 students. In February 2016, we transitioned to Independent Public School status.
Our diverse community is welcomed through an inclusive community that is committed to supporting every child to reach their potential through a strong focus on the academic, social, physical and creative aspects of education. We believe that learning knows no boundaries and ensure that we provide opportunities for every student to experience success and accomplishment every day.
Forster Tuncurry Church Of Christ
We provide food, clothing, basic supplies and pantry items to 70+ people every Monday in school Term. We also run a brunch before pantry opens which includes barista coffee
Tuncurry NSW 2428
Fortem Australia
Fortem Australia is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the mental fitness and wellbeing of first responder families.
Every day, more than 300,000 first responders keep our communities safe. They are backed up by their families: partners, children and parents. All of them hold vital and challenging roles.
We help them to be well, and stay well, through mental fitness and wellbeing activities and support services.
Fortify Health Foundation
Fortify Health Foundation is a health and disability organisation. Fortify Health Foundation deliver health and disability services that resolve complexity and empower individuals to achieve improved health and well-being.
Fortitude Valley Housing Service Centre
Providing housing and homelessness support for customers.
Advice and support for our public housing tenants
Help with renting, bond loans and rental grants
Help for residents, forms and advice for operators, changes to legislation
Various locations around Australia
FORWAARD Aboriginal Corporation
FORWAARD assists people to integrate back into society, and reconnect with their community and families. FORWAARD provides a secure place to stay, with an environment that is culturally appropriate and supportive of efforts at rehabilitation. While we predominantly support Indigenous people in our programs. FORWAARD will provide assistance to any person genuinely seeking our support.
Stuart Park NT 0820
Foster Care Angels Inc
A registered charity in NSW supporting, educating and empowering young people in foster care, or with a care experience. Our programs include:
The Launch Pad, an independently funded, long term subsidised and supported living program for vulnerable young people evicted from foster care upon turning 18. The statistical outcomes for these young people are poor. The Launch Pad provides them with the appropriate support so they can go from surviving to thriving.
The A Maze In Mind Program which is an essential life skills program for young people aged between 13 and 24, accessed via an App, educating and empowering young people in mental health, resilience, healthy relationships, goal setting and other vital life skills.
Kings Langley NSW 2147
Fostering Hope Australia
Fostering Hope supports children in foster care. We collect donations from the community and then give them out to children in foster care for free. We also send items of clothing and baby good to remote communities which is a huge success due to transport companies donating space on loads for us to allow us to send good to remote communities. We also support homeless families and families at risk of losing children into foster care.
Foundation 1 Inc.
Not-for-Profit Charity Organisation with Op Shops and Community Pantry items for people in need.
Foundation 61 Inc
Foundation 61 is a not for profit charitable organization based in Geelong, Victoria.
We assist individuals to find hope and direction in recovering from life controlling issues such as drugs & alcohol
Established in 2005 "The Acreage" is a 15 bed live in rehab facility for men.
Currently under construction is a women's 8 bed facility "The House of Hope". The house of hope has two dedicated mother and child rooms for women with preschool children.
Foundation 61 relies on the generosity of our wider community to support and make what we do possible.
Foundation for Indigenous Sustainable Health Limited
FISH was established in 2010 to address the severe housing crisis in First Nations communities throughout Australia. Our work has since expanded to include Education, Health, Justice, Social Enterprise and Cultural initiatives.
Acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have a living spiritual, cultural, familial and social connection with country, FISH seeks to bring healing to the spirit, heart, mind, body and land to help create healthy people and communities.
FISH believes that change does not come through ‘hand outs’, but by giving people a ‘hand up’ where Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander people and non-indigenous work hand in hand through innovation and enterprise to bring sustainable change.
The focus of the organisation is “by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people”.
Fitzroy Crossing WA 6765
Foundation Housing
Community Housing provider and Street to Home service provider
Perth WA 6000
Foundations Care Ltd - North Ipswich
Foster and Kinship Care Agency
National - recruit, assess, train, support foster and kinship carers. Therapeutic Group Homes for complex need children.
North Ipswich QLD 4305
Foundations Care Ltd - Underwood
Foster and Kinship Care Agency National - recruit, assess, train, support foster and kinship carers. Therapeutic Group Homes for complex need children.
Underwood QLD 4119
Frank Konecny Community Centre
The Frank Konecny Community Centre is a not for profit incorporation operating in the City of Kwinana. Our main objective is to help relieve poverty by providing basic grocery, fresh produce and other items to people who are suffering from financial hardship that cannot afford a modest standard of living. The Frank Konecny Community Centre recognizes that hardship does not discriminate, therefore neither do we. We are also committed to providing a range of services, which support and educate people in need within our community with the aim of relieving their financial, physical and mental stress and improving their quality of life using a range of formal and informal methods. All our services, programs, workshops and courses focus on prevention and relief with the purpose of relieving poverty and distress.
Franklin Early Childhood School
We are a government school with a childcare component and Preschool to Year 3 children. We will be expanding into a full Primary school by 2021. We have a very diverse community with many different multicultural families and spoken languages.
Franklin ACT 2913
Fraser Coast Regional Council
Local Government
Various locations around Australia
Free to Feed
We are a NFP charity & social enterprise located in Northcote. Provides accredited training and paid work experience and case management/wellbeing support for refugees, people seeking asylum and migrants. Most of our program participants are on temporary and bridging visas and are often in need of material items. We also at times receive private donations from our wider community that we would like to ensure go to good homes.
Various locations around Australia
Freedom Harvest Ministries Int'l Inc.
Freedom Harvest Ministries Int'l Inc. is a Christian non-profit organisation located in Cairns, Australia that seeks to help the community spiritually and naturally.
Smithfield QLD 4878
Fremantle Multicutural Centre
The Fremantle Multicultural Centre (FMC) was established in 1981 as the Fremantle Migrant Resource Centre following the national review of post-arrival programs and services by Melbourne lawyer, Frank Galbally. The Centre’s principal objectives were to provide a base for support services and facilities for migrants in the Fremantle region and to promote greater awareness of their needs and cultural backgrounds among local service providers and the community.
It subsequently expanded into a wider range of service provision across the Perth metropolitan area including employment, mental health access service and accommodation supports. FMC provides services to people in all stages of life including children, youth, parents and families.
Our History
FMC has operated from premises in High Street Fremantle since the 1980’s developing strategies which address the needs of local migrants and focuses on recent arrivals emerging communities and special needs groups
Fremantle WA 6160
Friendly Faces Helping Hands Foundation
Friendly Faces Helping Hands Foundation is a service set up to support and advocate for rural people and communities. Helping them through their Health Journey. It has a centralized resource for rural patients and their carers / families, information on the Friendly Faces Helping Hands Website includes a hospital directory for services and resources close to hospitals, with links and phone numbers for affordable accommodation, parking and transport, food and retail, and contacts for support workers (Aboriginal liaison officers, social workers, chaplaincy services).
Friends for Good
Friends for Good is a volunteer driven not-for-profit and Australian loneliness pioneer. We conduct a FriendLine (call service) and FriendChat (messaging service) through which people can link up with one of our volunteers who offer a friendly ear and help them to reduce the affects of loneliness in their daily lives.
Our Vision - People free from loneliness.
Our Mission - We raise awareness of loneliness as a significant issue in the community and address gaps in services to foster a greater sense of connection and wellbeing for individuals and communities.
Our Guiding Principles:
-We focus on prevention as an overarching principle.
-We embrace diversity and leverage our different strengths for a greater good.
-We are respectful to everyone.
-We are committed to what we do.
-We aim to facilitate greater connections for individuals and communities.
-We seek to collaborate rather than isolate, and lead by example.
Friends of Refugees
Friends of Refugees is an independent not-for-profit organisation which has responded to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis and helps to create a positive future for people seeking asylum and refugees in Australia.
Founded in early 2013, Friends of Refugees Inc. (FOR) has developed as a practical response to address the complexities and changing needs of people seeking asylum and refugees in Victoria by filling the service gaps that other funded organisations do not meet. Friends of Refugees has become a central source of first-line relief for people seeking asylum in Melbourne’s south-east. The ranges of services we provide include material aid, food aid, education support, job training and resettlement programs. Our office in Dandenong operates as a drop-in centre which provides a welcoming and safe environment for people in desperate need.
People seeking asylum are one of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged groups in Australia.
Frequently asked questions
To receive donated items, services or vouchers through GIVIT, you must first connect with a relevant support organisation who can assess your needs and provide assistance. This organisation can then place a request(s) on GIVIT on your behalf.
To find relevant organisations in your area, use the search fields and filters above. Once you’ve input your filters, make sure you click ‘FIND AN ORGANISATION’ to find relevant organisations.
Thousands of organisations across Australia are registered with GIVIT, working across a variety of causes, hardships and demographics. Our priority is to respect and maintain the privacy, safety, dignity and independence of people reaching out for help. By connecting with a relevant support organisastion, your needs can be assessed and verified, and you can receive tailored support, which may include the organisation requesting items or services on your behalf through GIVIT.
The support organisation that is assisting you can request a range of donated items and services through GIVIT on your behalf. This may include furniture, household items, whitegoods and appliances. You can also request baby items, toiletries, toys and educational supplies, kid’s or adult’s clothing, digital devices like mobile phones or laptops.
GIVIT may also be able to help you buy groceries, fuel or medication in the form of vouchers. You can check our ‘What’s needed’ list for an idea of what can be requested through GIVIT.
Your requests may be filled through a donor donating the money needed to purchase the item new, or through a donor donating the actual item or service.
Your support organisation can also request time and skills such as tradespeople, cleaners, health and social support, tutoring and transport assistance.
See GIVIT’s Prohibited List for details of what can’t be requested through GIVIT.
We recommend you speak with the support organisation that you’re working with. They may not be registered with GIVIT, or they may not have placed your request yet.
Please note that there is no guarantee that your request for donated items or services will be met. We’d love to meet every request placed on GIVIT, but your request being filled is dependent on donation(s) being made by donor(s).
Dedicated support services
In addition to the search function above that allows you to identify relevant organisations near you, listed below are a range of organisations, services and government resources that may be able to help you.
Some of these organisations may not be registered with GIVIT. We’ve compiled the list below to ensure you get relevant and tailored support for your situation, regardless of whether that includes donated items and services through GIVIT.
You can use the search function above to check if an organisation listed below is registered with GIVIT.
If your life is in danger, call Triple Zero 000 for emergency assistance.
Disaster and emergency recovery
If a natural disaster or emergency event has impacted you, please visit your state or territory government’s disaster support page to see what assistance is available, including disaster payments, grants and financial aid.
Australian Capital Territory Government
You can also access information via national resources - National Emergency Management Authority and Services Australia.
Domestic and family violence
If your life is in danger, call Triple Zero 000 for emergency assistance.
If you have experienced or are at risk of family and domestic violence and/or sexual assault, contact the National Sexual Assault, Family & Domestic Violence Counselling Line on 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732). 1800 RESPECT is also contactable via text, online chat or video call and is available 24 hours.
Financial hardship
The National Debt Helpine provides free, independent and confidential financial counselling via phone or live chat, Monday to Friday. You can call them on 1800 007 007.
Mob Strong Debt Helpline is a free advice service about money matters for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. They can be contacted on 1800 808 488, Monday to Friday.
Homelessness
If you’re experiencing or at risk of homelessness, you can find homeless shelters near you by searching on the Ask Izzy website.
Your state or territory government can also help. Listed below are the options by state or territory.
Mental health, depression or anxiety
If you or someone else’s life is in danger, call Triple Zero 000.
You can access 24/7 crisis support by calling Lifeline on 13 11 14. You can also contact Lifeline via text or online chat.
You can talk to a counsellor 24/7 through Beyond Blue. You can also access brief counselling with Beyond Blue via online chat.
If you’re a young person aged 12-25, you can talk to a trained clinician, you can contact Headspace 7 days a week between 9am and 1pm by calling 1800 650 890 or via online chat.
First Nations Australians
If you’re a First Nations Australian and you are going through a tough time, you can call 13YARN (13 92 76) to talk with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander crisis supporter.
Children or young people experiencing hardship
Children and young people aged 5 – 25 can access support through Kids Helpline by calling 1800 55 1800 or through online chat 24/7.
People living with disability
The Disability Gateway is an Australian Government service to help people with disability, their family, friends and carers find the support they need. They can be contacted on 1800 643 787, Monday to Friday.
Refugees and asylum seekers
If you’re a refugee or asylum seeker and you need help, you can contact the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre on 03 9326 6066 Monday to Friday for support.
People struggling with addiction
The National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is a 24/7 service that provides free and confidential advice about alcohol and other drugs. You can call them on 1800 250 015.
Alternatively, Alcohol & Drug Counselling Online offers 24/7 online chat counselling.