About TSWF
Our mission at The Shane Warne Foundation is to raise funds to help “enrich the lives of seriously ill and underprivileged children and teenagers in Australia”.
We achieve this by supporting a diverse cross section of charities that work ‘hands on’ within these areas.
Unlike most charities, The Shane Warne Foundation is an umbrella organisation. In the main, we try to alleviate the constant burden of fund raising for these great organisations, and people, who so effectively handle the day to day needs of these brave children.
We accept submissions, over the course of the year, from charities in dire need facilities, services and the myriad of other requirements that are a constant need for the care of seriously ill and underprivileged children – the list is endless.. Our board selects the beneficiaries annually, making a collective decision based on how the funds we have available can best be utilised to make an explicit difference.
Over the past six years we have raised the majority of our funds through our own events and great partnerships with entities such as Channel Nine, 888, BGC, DWS, SEL, Parragon Publishing and Gillette.
We manage two distinct funds which allow us the flexibility to help charities and individuals. These are;
- The Public Fund
- Provides funding for established charities that work hands on with seriously ill and underprivileged children and teenagers in Australia.
- The Necessitous Circumstances Fund
- Allows us the capacity to directly help children under 18 years of age who are in financially necessitous circumstances.
Since 2004, we have raised over $3.5 million with approximately 80% reaching those in need. During the 2009/10 financial year, we were able to distribute over $530,000, unfortunately, we were still left with submissions we wanted to support when we ran out of money.
We know we can do more and we know we have built a structure that can benefit others that want to help the same demographic that we do.
We are looking to expand our event range and locations we stage them in, we want to grow the number of like-minded individuals and groups that nominate us as there charity of choice and we want to increase the number of Companies which utilise us to distribute their charity donations.
As an organisation, our primary goal is to raise as much money as possible so we can support as many charities, programs and children as possible. We are hoping that you can help us help many more!
