SA Giving Week 2026
Stories of generosity
South Australians share how giving builds community, fuels research, restores hope and changes lives. Discover the people, projects and ideas behind a brighter SA.
Giving the gift of education
Ngutu College in Adelaide’s west embeds Aboriginal ways of being and learning into a kindergarten-to-Year-12 education — a place built entirely on giving.
Read story
A legacy of love
After losing her daughter Letitia and sister-in-law Rose to ovarian cancer, Madelyn Duckmanton turned grief into action.
Read story
Holman Hodge builds an impact that lasts
As Adelaide accounting firm Holman Hodge marked a decade in business, they launched a community fund to deepen impact through partnership and volunteering.
Read story
Bringing experts into the shed
Researchers Amy McLennan and James Daniell turned the urge to help into a network mobilising volunteer experts in disaster response.
Read story
Family foundation sets up giving for generations
How Angelique Boileau turned a lifetime of giving into the Boileau Family Foundation — backing conservation, the arts and women’s shelters across SA.
Read story
The power of connection
Raise Foundation pairs young people with trained mentors, one hour a week. The idea has now reached 19,000 young Australians.
Read story
Rebuilding schools, restoring childhoods
A milestone birthday wish became a $200,000 movement restoring a war-damaged school in Kherson — and the childhoods inside it.
Read story
Volunteering gives retired midwife purpose
For retired midwife Julianne, two hours a week with The Village Co isn’t just supporting vulnerable mums — it’s restored her own sense of purpose.
Read story
Giving that moves people forward
Shaw and Partners’ Adelaide team turned a $50,000 gift into hands-on guiding for blind and low-vision runners with Achilles Adelaide.
Read story
Fat farmers step up to form statewide movement
How a small group of Yorke Peninsula farmers turned a weekly trip to the gym into one of South Australia’s most powerful rural health movements.
Read story
Riding gives the gift of connection
Cycling Without Age volunteers give free trishaw rides to older South Australians and people with disability — turning fresh air into joy and connection.
Read story
Giving locally to build the Eyre Peninsula’s future
The Eyre Peninsula Community Foundation has supported more than 100 local projects since 2010 — proof that place-based philanthropy creates lasting benefit.
Read story
Giving close to home and heart in the Barossa
When Fran Clancy passed away, her husband Paul turned bequest into a lasting scholarship through Foundation Barossa — a memorial that gives in perpetuity.
Read story
Inspiring the generation of changemakers
The First Nations Native Food Innovators program pairs Aboriginal high school students with mentors to turn cultural knowledge into entrepreneurship.
Read story
Legacy of giving fuels future of medicine
For more than a decade, the James & Diana Ramsay Foundation has been quietly backing bioinformatics research that’s changing patient care.
Read story
Giving helps young musicians find their place & their future
Nearly 300 young South Australians come together every Saturday for the Adelaide Youth Orchestras — an opportunity made possible by giving.
Read story
Belief that changes lives
At Youth Opportunities, donors back potential at moments when young people may not yet see it in themselves. The result: confidence, resilience and lifelong change.
Read story