Telstra’s Kids Fund is a valuable means by which Telstra employees can direct Telstra’s philanthropic giving and support their local communities across Australia.
Permanent Telstra Group employees can apply for a Telstra's Kids Fund grant of $1,200 to support a project or activity run by a not-for-profit organisation involving a child, 18 years or under, in their immediate family.
Each year $750,000 is given to local community organisations on behalf of children related to Telstra employees. There are three funding rounds per year.
Telstra's Kids Fund provides grants for not-for-profit organisations in the following areas:
• Arts and culture
• Disability
• Education
• Environment
• Health
• Sport and recreation
• Valuing cultural diversity
Organisations such as schools, sporting clubs, hospitals and childcare centres have benefited from Telstra's Kids Fund. Requests for musical equipment, educational resources, sport and recreation equipment and building upgrades have been among the grants given by Telstra's Kids Fund.
For examples of the type of organisations and projects previously funded by the Telstra's Kids Fund refer to the Projects page.
In the Telstra’s Kids Fund granting round only, open 9 August, 2010, priority will be given to applications where the organisation for which funding is sought is in a community directly impacted by disaster, according to Telstra’s Customer and Community Disaster Relief Policy, from March 2010 until July 2010. Please refer to
TKF Eligible Locations for a complete list of impacted areas.