We have joined the 2024 Canberra Day Appeal to raise much needed funds for our charity!
This year, the Canberra Day Appeal’s 48-hour Hands Up for Canberra Giving Day begins on Wednesday, March 6. So please, give where you live and donate here during the 48h Giving Day donation drive.
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Your donation will be doubled
Every $1 you donate will become $2 with matched funding available for the first $2,500 we fundraise ($5,000 total)
Please help us reach our goal #HandsUp4CBR
Raised so far
$2,599
Our goal
$10,000
** Tally above includes matched funding and donations. Matched funds have been provided by Hands Across Canberra and the Chief Minister's Charitable Fund.
About Us
The ACTVBA works to improve the psychological, social, and physical wellbeing of Canberra's volunteer firefighters including through education, and the provision of support and advocacy services. During 2021-2022, the ACT Rural Fire Service volunteers who the ACTVBA represents, freely contributed nearly 23,000 hours of their time to keeping our community safe, informed, and supported. This includes 12,000 hours of training, 6000 hours of operations, and many more hours spent engaging and educating our community.
How your donation will help
The ACTVBA is raising funds to establish an emergency support fund for volunteer firefighters who suffer a crisis, and their families. This could include things like funding emergency accommodation, providing support with funeral expenses, and supporting brigades to assist members who may be experiencing an adverse life altering event, such as a life threatening illness or injury.
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A big thank you to our Supporters
Rotary Club of Canberra Sunrise
Mike Benjamins
Happy Birthday Brent! A small way to support the great work you and other volunteers do as members of the RFS.
Scott Lang
Thank you all for your hard work in keeping us safe. After three wet years, I suspect our coming summer season will be hard going.
Yvonne Kilgour
Thank you for all the great work you do
Mara Stroppa
Continue the great work you are doing for us volunteers!
Anthony R
Brooke
Anonymous
Hall Volunteer Rural Fire Brigade
Donation from Hall Volunteer Rural Fire Brigade
Molonglo Rural Fire Brigade
Thank you for all the work you put in throughout the year.
Gillian Jenkinson
You guys rock !!! Keep up the awesome work that you do.
Adjacent Law & Health
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The Rotary Club of Canberra Sunrise greatly appreciates the significant work that the Volunteer Brigades Association undertakes within Canberra and its environs to protect our communities at times of crisis and natural disaster before those events occur.