Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation

Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation (VFFF) was established as a family charitable trust in 1962 and is now one of the larger family foundations in Australia, having distributed more than $90 million since establishment.

VFFF seeks opportunities to benefit and care for Australians and our country by making distributions to charitable organisations, with priority given to those in NSW, the north east of Australia or national level programs.

It seeks to support projects and organisations whose work is:

• Preventative in focus
• Catalytic in nature
• Capacity building

It seeks to support organisations whose work benefits:

• Children and young people
• Rural and regional Australia
• Christianity
• Community

VFFF particularly seeks to support organisations that are unable to rely on high profile fundraising from other sectors.

Sponsorship History

"Rural Open Scholarship" "Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation 2"

Scholarship Recipients

2008, ARLP 15 - Eleanor Cook, Steven Keating

2009, ARLP 16 - Brooke Rankmoore, Tony Wolfe

2010, ARLP 17 - Rebel Black, Ashley Bland

2011, ARLP 18 - Tammie Reid, Michael Croft

"The Australian Rural Leadership Program is over for me now, which in itself provides a new beginning. It is an outstanding leadership course, cleverly designed and extremely well managed. I attempted to draw everything out of it that was available and in doing so my leadership knowledge and capacity, I feel, has developed very considerably. I now have a network of 30+ very close and special high calibre and professional friends, all of which is far more than I ever expected as an ARLP applicant, 18 months ago. – Brooke Rankmore" - Brooke Rankmore