The Voiceless grant will support an animal awareness campaign in the region targeting schools, tertiary students & the general public.  The campaign aims to raise awareness of the need to care for all animals and provide practical advice and strategies for the care of both domestic and native animals. The program will be conducted over a 6-week period in a series of workshops.  (A portion of this grant has been generously provided by Project Rosie)

Grant amount: $5,000

Website: Coomalie Community Government Council

The funds from the Voiceless grant will contribute to a campaign aiming to change attitudes & increase awareness of animals used for entertainment, primarily circuses, and to encourage the public to lobby their Councillors for a ban.  The principal objective is to achieve a state-wide ban on circuses using animals, by first achieving city bans throughout NSW.

Grant amount: $5,000

Through the grants program, Voiceless will support Alice the pig, at Edgar’s Mission.  The sanctuary provides homes for unwanted and abused farm animals, particularly pigs.  The sanctuary serves to educate people about intensive farming. Alice was a former factory farm pig and more recently starred in the upcoming movie Charlotte’s Web.  Voiceless sponsor, Bio-Distributors, will also assist Edgar’s Mission by funding a ‘Kindness Trail’ – an educational, interactive walk through the sanctuary.

Grant amount: $10,000

Website: Edgar’s Mission

The funds from the Voiceless grant will support a pilot project and research phase, of "Learning to Care, Education for Compassion".  This will be trialled in Australian schools, to establish what current knowledge and attitudes exist amongst Australian children, teenagers and teachers towards animal ethics issues, so as to justify and inform the development of the school curriculum units. The program will provide teachers knowledge, methods & vision for helping students to develop compassion for animals.  The program addresses the lack of teacher materials, teacher knowledge & lack of values in the education system. (This project has been generously sponsored by Morinda Australia Pty Ltd.) 

Grant amount: $10,000

Website: Griffith University

The Voiceless grant will enable the Australia-wide distribution of the book From Guinea Pig to Computer Mouse: alternative methods for a progressive, humane education.  This serves to educate members of the scientific teaching community about alternatives to the use of animals in life science education.

Grant amount: $2,500

Website: InterNICHE