Humane Charities

Mission statement: A national body of leading disability service organisations working together to achieve a fair go for Australians living with a disability.

Current projects requiring funding: None of the services offered by AFA’s affiliates are funded sufficiently to cover full costs.

Policy on animal research: AFA is opposed to and will not participate in medical research which involves the use of non-human animals.

Contact Details: Po Box 4501, GPO Sydney NSW 2001
Enquiries: 1800 771 663 (Glen Gardner CEO)
Fax: 02 8259 7778
Web: www.abilityfirstaustralia.org.au
Email:

Aims and Activities: To provide representation and support whilst advancing the interests of individuals with dementia and their carers at a personal, comunity and political level.

Policy on animal research: We do not support nor partake in the use of non-human animals in medical research.

Contact Details: PO Box 1509, Subiaco, WA, 6904.
Tel: 08 9388 2800
Fax: 08 9388 2739
Email:
Web: www.alzheimers.org.au

Aims and Activities: Ashcare provides residential care and support services for people with severe and multiple disabilities. Ashcare recognises the rights of all individuals to a quality of life, security and opportunities similar to those enjoyed within the general community.

Policy on animal research: Our organisation does not conduct (or fund in any way) any research that involves the use of animals as defined herein.

Contact Details: 20 Tennyson Street, Burwood, Vic., 3125.
Tel: 03 9888 9037
Fax: 03 9888 9038
Email:
Web: www.ashcare.org.au

Aims and Activities: Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) builds partnerships with people with autism spectrum disorders, their families and the community to provide information, services, learning and research.

Policy on animal research: Autism Spectrum Australia (Aspect) does not take part in or support the use of non-human animals for any research purposes including medical research, nor do we have plans to do so in the future.

Contact Details: PO Box 361, Forestville, N.S.W., 2087.
Tel: 02 8977 8300
Fax: 02 8977 8399
Email:
Web: www.aspect.org.au

Aims & Activities: The Aurum Project is dedicated to promoting research and education about homeopathic treatment for childhood health and behavioural problems, with effective, safe and natural treatments. There is an increasing need to provide real alternatives to the overuse of antibiotics and pharmaceuticals especially in fever management and in everyday childhood health issues. We do not use, promote or support animal research.

110/20 Dale St, Brookvale NSW 2100
Ph – 02 9905 9415
Fax – 02 9905 9416

www.aurumproject.org.au

Aims and Activities: To support the development of the Cord Blood Bank and research into cord blood.

Policy on animal research: Animals are not used.

Contact Details: Sydney Children's Hospital, Level 1, High Street, Randwick, N.S.W., 2031.
Tel: 02 9382 0370
Fax: 02 9382 0372
Email:
Web: www.sch.edu.au/departments/acbb/

Aims and Activities: To provide employment, accomodation and day programs for people with disability.

Policy on animal research: Our organisation does not conduct medical research.

Contact Details: 12 Marieanne Place, Minchinbury, NSW 2770
Tel: 02 9677 0955
Fax: 02 9677 2499
Email:
Web: www.afford.com.au

Aims and Activities: Raise funds for natural research for cancer and other degenerative diseases. To assist those whom are financially disadvantaged to the choices of treatment. To teach preventative health challenges.

Policy on animal research: Our organisation is strongly against the use of anything unnatural and the use of animals in research.

Contact Details: 7 Amber Court, Cheltenham, Vic. 3192
Tel: 03 9583 9789
Fax: 03 9585 3697
Email:
Web:

Aims and Activities: Barkuma believes that the inclusion of all people strengthens our community and expands individual capacities and opportunities. To this end, Barkuma provides individual quality support to people with an intellectual disability, expanding opportunities and achieving full community inclusion.

Policy on animal research:Barkuma Incorporated does not take part in or support the use of non-human animals for any research purposes, including medical research.

Contact Details:Level 1, 260 Currie St, Adelaide, SA 5000
Tel: 08 8414 7100
Fax: 08 8414 7199
Email:
Web: www.barkuma.com.au

Aims & Activities: Bonnie Babes support families grieving after the loss of a baby through stillbirth, miscarriage or prematurity. The Foundation also supports research aimed at investigating the medical reasons for such losses and provides funding for medical equipment used in survival of the very premature infant. Ongoing funding is required for medical equipment; research projects; grief counseling, training and services. No animals are used in any research projects funded by Bonnie Babes.

Contact Details: PO Box 407, Canterbury VIC 3126
Ph – 03 9803 1800
Fax – 03 9803 2699

www.bbf.org.au

Aims and Activities: The Cairnmillar Institute aims to provide high quality psychological counselling and treatment for people with emotional and behavioural problems, and with family conflict and difficulties.

The Institute is recognised as being on the frontline of some of the most urgent needs of contemporary society – the need to prevent distress and unhappiness, and the need to promote better resources for living positive and healthy lives.

Policy on animal research: The Institute does not support the indiscriminate and unethical use of animals in medical research.

Contact Details: 993 Burke Road, Camberwell, Vic. 3124
Tel: 03 9813 3400
Fax: 03 9882 9764
Email:
Web: www.cairnmillar.org.au

Aims and Activities: To save lives, speed recovery and serve the community by providing the highest standard of rapid-response critical care with team. Dedication to safety, education, innovation and sustainability.

Policy on animal research: Research conducted in trauma care pre-hospital for victims of accidents or disaster events. Use of animals non-applicable.

Contact Details: PO Box 159, Westmead, NSW, 2145.
Tel: 02 9891 6144
PO Box 2452, Orange, NSW, 2800.
Tel: 02 6369 1123
Email:
Web: www.careflight.org

Aims and Activities: To promote and protect the interests and wellbeing of all older people (over 50). COTA (NSW) is a registered PBI and charity. It is an NGO and incorporated community association.

Policy on animal research: No policy provided.

Contact Details: Level 4, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Tel: 02 9286 3860
Fax: 02 9286 3872
Email:
Web: www.cotansw.com.au

Mission Statement: The Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria is the primary source of support, information, community education and advocacy for people with eating disorders and their families in Victoria. We connect those whose lives are affected by eating disorders with the people, services and hope they need for recovery.

Projects requiring funding: Our services to people with eating disorders and their families are free, confidential, non-judgemental, flexible and open-ended. Participation in our services is by choice. Service users decide when and how often they access and participate in services. There are no waiting lists, and no limits to service use. Our assistance can be sought easily, via the Internet, email, telephone and face to face. We encourage people to be active in their own recovery, and support a holistic approach to provide improved mental health, emotional well being and quality of life. Hope, spirit, empathy, love, care, respect and trust are all fundamental to our service philosophy. Your donation will help us to continue providing these services.

Policy on animals in research: The Eating Disorders Foundation of Victoria does not support the indiscriminate and unethical use of animals in medical research.

Contact Details: 1513 High Street, Glen Iris VIC
Phone: 03 9885 6563 (Christie Greenwood CEO)
Fax: 03 9885 1153
Email:
www.eatingdisorders.org.au

Mission statement: Epilepsy Action delivers innovative, high quality education and support services across Australia to minimize the impact of epilepsy and other seizure disorders.

Current projects requiring funding: Strong Foundations is an early intervention program for children with Epilepsy. This program aims to meet the great variety of needs – behavioural, psychological, physical and educational – that young children with epilepsy and their parents face.

Policy on animal research: Epilepsy action provides services and does not fund medical research.

Contact Details: GPO Box 879 Epping NSW 2121
Phone: 02 9856 7017
Fax: 1300 887 988
Email:
www.epilepsy.org.au

Aims and Activities: The Epilepsy Association of South Australia and Northern Territory Inc is committed to provide high quality, cost effective, accessible services without discrimination to people with epilepsy and their families. It recognises and respects the basic rights of all people with epilepsy and their right to be treated with dignity and integrity.

Policy on animal research: We do not support or use non-human animals for research.

Contact Details:PO Box 12, Woodvile, SA 5011
Tel: 08 8445 6131
Fax: 08 8445 6387
Email:
Web: www.epilepsyassociation.com.au

Aims and Activities: To maximise the quality of life for people with epilepsy and their families. To provide skilled counseling, information and support programs. To improve community education and awareness. To provide advocacy for people with epilepsy who have to cope with prejudice and misunderstanding. To conduct research into psychological and social aspects of epilepsy.

Policy on animal research: We do not conduct or fund research on non-human animals.

Contact Details: PO Box 1457, Coorparoo BC, QLD 4151.
Tel: 07 3435 5000
Fax: 07 3435 5025
Email:
Web: www.eqi.org.au

Aims and Activities: To enrich the lives of children with a disability by establishing a grandparent-like relationship with a mature aged volunteer.

Through membership of the Scheme, to educate society about disability issues.

To provide children with a disability enjoyable experiences and opportunities to develop as individuals and as part of society.
To provide a break for the family/carer of the child with a disability.

Policy on animal research: The Scheme does not use or support the use of animals in medical research.

Contact Details: 177 Glenroy Rd, Glenroy, VIC 3046
Tel: 03 8311 4044
Fax: 03 9300 3358
Email:
Web: www.extendedfamilies.org.au

Aims and Activities: The Fred Hollows Foundation carries on the work of the late Professor Fred Hollows (1929-1993). Fred was an eye doctor, a skilled surgeon of international renown, a champion of the right of all people to good health and a strong advocate for social justice. The Fred Hollows Foundation has a vision of a world where no one is needlessly blind and where Indigenous Australians enjoy the same health and life expectancy as other Australians.

Policy on animal research: The Fred Hollows Foundation does not support or undertake research using animals.

Contact Details: Locked Bag 3100, Burwood, NSW 1805
Tel: 02 8741 1900
Fax: 02 8741 1999
Email:
Web: www.hollows.org.au

Aims and Activities: Funding - Chair of Geriatric Medicine at University of Queensland. Research - Parkinson’s Disease.

Policy on animal research: We do not use animals in research

Contact Details: PO Box 953, Paddington, QLD, 4064.
Tel: 07 3367 0273
Fax:
Email:
Web:

Aims and Activities: Organised mutual help/ self help groups for people with a diagnosed mental illness or suffering emotional stress..

Policy on animal research: GROW does not conduct research on non-human animals.

Contact Details: PO Box 145, Woodville, SA, 5011
Tel: 08 8244 9299
Fax: 08 8244 9266
Email:
Web: www.grow.net.au

Aims and Activities: To establish a public institution benevolently serving the Australian community by relieving poverty, sickness, suffering, misfortune and distress, predominantly by establishing and operating a hospice for the purpose of delivering health care to all members of the public at an affordable rate, making the services available, without discrimination, to those in need.
To establish and operate a medical and scientific research and development facility for the ongoing investigation and treatment of chronic, degenerative and terminal illnesses; research into health sciences, including exercise physiology, preventative health care, pain and injury management, disability and injury rehabilitation, and pre, post and ante-natal care.

Policy on animal research:
1. Doesn't condone such
2. Would never employ such
3. Is irrelevant to human medical research
4. Is opposed to - unequivocally.

Contact Details: Tyalgum Tops, Tyalgum, NSW 2484
Tel: 02 6679 3457
Fax: 02 6679 3399
Email:
Web: www.happi.org.au

Aims and Activities: To donate books about natural health to public libraries.

Policy on animal research: We don’t do medical research and we don’t abuse animals.

Contact Details: PO Box 1400 Mudgeeraba, QLD, 4213
Ph: 07 5530 3120
Fax: 07 5569 0884
Email:
Web: www.hippocrates.com.au

Aims and Activities: Our mission is to empower deaf people and their families to live life to the full. This is achieved through provision of :

• a) A Family Support Service.
• b) A Spirituality Focus.
• c) A Community Centre

Policy on animal research: The JPC is not involved in any way with activities relating to medical research or the use of animals in such research.

Contact Details: 2 Donald Street, Prahran, Vic. 3181
Tel: 03 9525 1158
Fax: 03 9525 1191
Email:
Web:

Aims and Activities:The K-I-D-S Foundation is a not for profit health promotion charitable organisation dedicated to injury prevention and recovery. Our principle activity is promoting the prevention and control of physical, psychological and emotional trauma caused by injury from accidents, with a focus on burn survivors.

Policy on animal research: K-I-D-S Foundation does not conduct, fund or support animal based research.

Contact Details: PO Box 12, Wendouree, VIC 3355
Tel: 03 5339 6970
Fax: 03 5339 5742
Email:
Web: www.kidsfoundation.org.au

Aims and Activities: (a) Human based research which does not at any stage involve the use of laboratory animals and which is designed to eliminate the use of laboratory animals;
(b) Research which is designed to develop alternatives to either existing or putative animal models;
(c) The training of researchers in non-animal research methodologies;
(d) Other activities deemed by the Trustee* to be compatible with those set out in sub-clauses (a) - (c)

Policy on animal research: The MAWA Trust does not support the use of non-human animals, whether alive or dead, or the use of animal tissue, for any research or educational purposes whatsoever.

Contact Details: PO Box 4203, Weston Creek, ACT 2611
Tel: (02) 6287 1980
Fax: (02) 6287 1724
Email:
Web: www.mawa.asn.au

Aims and Activities: Mission: To provide support services to children with physical disabilities and their families to assist these children to achieve their maximum individual potential for participation in the community.

Policy on animal research: We do not support/participate in the use of animals in medical research.

Contact Details: PO Box 50, Corinda, Qld. 4075
Tel: 07 3379 9200
Fax: 07 3717 1146
Email:
Web: www.montroseaccess.org.au

Aims and Activities: ParaQuad Victoria is a not-for-profit organisation providing community based services to enable people with a disability to achieve their desired quality of life. The organisation has particular expertise in the area of spinal cord injuries and Poliomyelitis, but also provides services to people with any physical disability.

Vision: To be acknowledged as Australia's best provider of quality services for people with a disability. Mission: Enabling people with a disability to achieve their desired quality of life Services include accommodation (short & long term), advocacy, disability education & training, information services, in-home attendant care, respite care and spinal cord injury prevention.

Policy on animal research: We do not conduct or financially support animal based research.

Contact Details: 208 Wellington Street, Collingwood, Vic. 3066
Tel: 03 9415 1200
Fax: 02 9415 1222
Email:
Web: paraquad.asn.au

Aims and Activities: Employ and train people with disabilities in commercial settings.

Policy on animal research: No policy as such, as this does not affect our charity.

Contact Details: Locked Bag 112
Marleston SA 5033
Tel: 08 8152 2400
Fax 08 8152 2411
Email:
Web: www.phoenixsoc.org.au

Aims and Activities: The Melbourne Zen Hospice is a non-profit organisation, providing free self-funded palliative care home support to persons of any age and background who are approaching the end of life while continuing to live at home, and to their carers and family.

Policy on animal research: The use of non-human animals in medical research is not applicable to our work. Moreover, as a Buddhist organisation, we do not support the use of non-human animals in any medical or other research.

Contact Details: PO Box 329, Albert Park VIC 3206
Tel: 0410 827 027
Fax: 03 9525 7369
Email:
Web: www.zen.org.au

Aims and Activities: The Richmond Fellowship is a non-religious, non-profit making organisation providing supportive care for people with mental illness and psychiatric disability.

Policy on animal research: No specific policy

Contact Details: PO Box 85, Glebe, NSW 2037
Tel: 02 9660 4833
Fax: 02 9692 0455
Email:
Web: www.rfnsw.org.au

Aims and Activities:
1. Aged care - Retirement villages.
2. Caring for senior citizens who have fallen on hard times - an annuitant scheme.

Policy on animal research: The RFBI does not support the use of animals in research

Contact Details: PO Box A 2019, Sydney South, NSW 2000
Tel: 02 9264 5986
Fax: 02 9283 2403
Email:
Web:

Aims and Activities:
The Royal Society for the Blind of South Australia (RSB) is the primary provider of services to South Australians who are blind or vision impared. It is a world leader providing a full range of vision rehabilitation services throughout South Australia. The Many services include: Councelling, occupational therapy, orientation and mobility training, RSB guide dog service, employment and adaptive technology.

Policy on animal research: The RSB does not use animals in medical research.

Contact Details: GPO Box 1855, Adelaide SA 5001
Tel: 08 8223 6222
Fax: 08 8223 7836
Email:
Web: www.rsb.org.au

Aims and Activities: Provide services to people with disabilities - particularly Cerebral Palsy. Formerly known as the Spastic Centre of Victoria.

Policy on animal research: Scope does not undertake any research using non-human animals.

Contact Details: PO Box 381, St Kilda. Vic. 3182
Tel: 03 9537 2611
Fax: 03 9525 3274
Email:
Web: www.ScopeVic.org.au

Aims and Activities: To provide services to people who are blind with additional disabilities and people who are deaf blind.

Policy on animal research: We do not participate in any research and do not agree with the use of non-human animals in research.

Contact Details: PO Box 14, Maylands, WA 6051
Tel: 08 9473 5400
Fax:08 9473 5499
Email:
Web: www.senses.asn.au

Aims and Activities: Developing quality services and life opportunities for Tasmanians with disabilities.

Policy on animal research: We do not support the use of animals for research. We do not support any inhumane use of animals.

We involve animals as household companions where it is appropriate and provides positive interaction with people.

Contact Details:PO Box 839, Burnie, Tasmania 7320
Tel: 03 6431 3211
Fax: 03 6431 3544
Email:
Web: www.multicap.com.au

Aims and Activities: The Toowoomba Hospital Foundation is a non-profit, charitable organisation that exists to promote the activities of health services of Toowoomba and Darling Downs, QLD. The Foundation provides health technologies, health equipment, staff training and research funding.

Policy on animal research:The foundation does not condone the use of non-human animals in medical research.

Contact Details: PO Box 7646, Toowoomba MC, QLD 4352
Tel: 07 4616 6166
Fax: 07 4616 6177
Email:
Web:

Aims and Activities:Variety exists to improve the lives of children with special needs in Australia. Variety purchases urgently needed equipment for individual children and children’s organisations. Items such as wheelchairs, humidicribs, vocal-output devices, sunshine coaches, etc.

Policy on animal research: Variety does not fund any research into congenital deformities or other children’s’ illness. We aim to help those children who may suffer from a disability or illness.

Contact Details: PMB 1044, Rozelle, NSW 2039
Tel: 02 9819 1012
Fax: 02 9555 1424
Email:
Web: www.variety.org.au

Aims and Activities:Our vision is for a world where communication flows effortlessly. Vicdeaf provides services aimed at breaking down communication barriers and improving access for the deaf and hard of hearing in Victoria.

Policy on animal research: Vicdeaf does not support or participate in the use of animals in medical research.

Contact Details: Level 4, 340 Albert St, East Melbourne, VIC 3002
Tel: 03 9473 1111
Fax: 03 9473 1122
TTY: 03 9473 1188
Email:
Web: www.vicdeaf.com.au

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