Parramatch Campaigns Now Live!
Parramatch 2020: Let’s Build Back Better
Parramatch is a partnership between the City of Parramatta and StartSomeGood to help local community organisations, projects and social enterprises in the City of Parramatta respond to the challenges of COVID-19.
COVID-19 presented many challenges to local communities. Through this program we have selected projects that Build Back Better to create lasting positive change by bringing people together address these challenges.
The selected projects received expert training in pitching, crowdfunding and social media outreach and have now launched their projects via crowdfunding campaigns.
The City of Parramatta is providing $8000 in matched grants funds to be shared across these five crowdfunding campaigns, but only if they reach their funding goals.
So now they need our support!
We are now excited to announce that these 5 crowdfunding campaigns are live and you have the chance to back them:
Second Chance Partnership
Parramatta Mission and Thread Harvest have come together to create the Second Chance Partnership, a way for charities like Parramatta Mission to increase their revenue by leveraging their existing network of schools, churches, clubs and associations to gather clothing, shoes and accessories and selling them in an online op-shop.
They will use the funds to set up an online website and systems for the sale and fulfillment of the goods to customers.
You can support them here:
Cycling Without Age Parramatta
Cycling Without Age (CWA) provides a program to connect people who are no longer able to ride a bicycle themselves within their community and the outdoors by giving them free rides on trishaw e-bikes, piloted by volunteer cyclists. The CWA Parramatta chapter is a newly developed service created in 2020 due to community demand.
The program aims to enable individuals living with disability and the elderly to get outdoors, enjoy the fresh air and feel connected to their local environment as they feel the wind in their hair.
You can support them here:
ParraOutreach
Parramatta Women’s Shelter is launching ParraOutreach, which will provide grassroots, face-to-face, community-based skilled support to disadvantaged women and children moving on from crisis accommodation to transitional accommodation, towards a more secure and confident future.
Their vision is a future free from domestic and family violence, gender-based discrimination and homelessness.
You can support them here:
Mindful Break
Florapeutic is a newly established social enterprise in North Parramatta with a focus on rescuing fresh flowers used in events that are otherwise wasted, and repurposing these flowers to therapeutic products and services.
Mindful Break is a therapeutic flower arranging workshop which embraces the practice of mindfulness while using the repurposed flowers. Their workshop primarily benefits individuals in nursing homes and hospitals where many suffer from depression and social isolation.
You can support them here:
Sports 4 All
Turbans 4 Australia has been helping communities strive for better since 2015. They are launching Sport 4 All, an initiative to help people struggling with financial issues engage in sports activities by sponsoring them in these, which will be held in Parramatta sports academies.
They will provide assistance to young people, with a focus on International Students, to help them get more involved in community sports which will provide a sense of Australian sporting culture and values.
You can support them here:
Now, to learn more about the Parramatch program, click here!
And, to review more crowdfunding campaigns on StartSomeGood, visit our website at startsomegood.com.
