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Vermicomposting pit filled with manure and red wiggler worm, PC Rahul Kumar, TSA India

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Permafund in Action

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives overhead view

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Apiary to pollinate gardens

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Harvested Beans

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PC for Sustainable Communities harvest

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Harvest of Pumpkins and Squash

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The 2023 Permafund Grant Round has now closed

Applications for the 2023 Permafund grants have now closed. The Permafund grant program is for projects that benefit or protect the natural environment, which includes regenerative agriculture and education.  For more information permafund@permacultureaustralia.org.au 

PA’s Permafund

Permaculture Australia is registered as a charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission ABN 13 196 056 495. PA’s Permafund has run grant rounds since 2012 – funding 73 permaculture projects in 17 countries around the world. We are volunteer run and funded entirely by donations, read more about the different ways to donate here. Donations over $2 are tax deductible.

What is Permafund?

Permafund provides seed grants of up to $2000 to support permaculture projects in Australia and overseas. We accept applications for small grants which are assessed on need; alignment with permaculture principles and ethics, and project sustainability. 

A volunteer-run committee comprised of experienced permaculture practitioners and international aid experts assess and allocates the grant amounts. Permafund has a Child Protection policy and evaluation requirements that all grant recipients must comply with.

Donations over $2 are tax deductible

How have previous grants been used?

Permafund has been providing small grants to community groups since 2008. View the 2020-21 grant recipients

Give to Permafund in your will

We are also able to accept bequests or be listed as a recipient in your will. Contact hello@permacultureaustralia.org.au for more information

The Permafund Team

Permafund Supporters

Permafund relies entirely on donations from generous organisations and members of the community.  A huge thank you to our supporters listed here

Permafund ambassador – Rowe Morrow

Rosemary Morrow became the first Permafund ambassador at the Intentional Permaculture Convergence in London recently. Her long permaculture career has taken many journeys from education and publication to aid and development work, across the globe.

Rosemary’s work in countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Uganda, Bosnia and Afghanistan, highlights why we felt she deserved the recognition of being our first patron.

With the festive season upon us and a time of giving to others, Permafund is putting an appeal out to the global permaculture movement to consider sending us a donation. By sharing the abundance we have achieved with others, we participate actively in our third ethic… Fair Share. You can donate directly to PA’s Permafund above

Rosemary Morrow

Born in Perth, Rowe was claimed early by the Earth; plants, animals, stones, weather. Some years in the Kimberleys as a young girl confirmed it. She trained in agriculture science with which she was very disappointed, then moved to France where she lived in the L’Arche community. Later at Jordans Village in England she realised she would become a Quaker.

Back in Australia in the 1980s Rowe’s Permaculture Design Course provided the basis for a concern for Earth restoration. She considers permaculture to be ‘sacred knowledge’ to be carried and shared with others. Since then, when asked, she has travelled to teach the PDC to others who, due to circumstances, could not access it any other way. This took her to immediate post-war Vietnam as well as Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia and other countries.

Rowe’s present concern is to make teaching sustainable and encourage others to succeed her as teachers. Her books include the Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture and the Earth User’s Guide to Teaching Permaculture.

Permafund ambassador – Charlie Mgee

Soon after completing a PDC in 2011, Charlie formed Formidable Vegetable – with the hope of inspiring people to grow food, keep chickens and make the world a better place. Since then, Formidable Vegetable have performed at global festivals including Glastonbury, for the United Nations, and were described by Vandana Shiva as “connecting the creativity of nature with the creativity of music”. When asked about why he supports Permafund he replied:
 
“For the first few years after starting the band, I channeled every bit of income I made back into producing more albums and touring in order to keep spreading the permaculture message. When I started making a small surplus from my music, it seemed like the obvious thing to do was to tithe some of my income to Permafund, so that the music could also directly benefit people practicing permaculture on-the-ground. Just singing and waving my arms around about how great permaculture is, without ever being in one place long enough to have a garden of my own started to feel a bit abstract and disconnected. So for me, Permafund was a great way that I could give back to the community and adhere a bit more to the ethics of Earth Care and Fair Share, while not having much of a built or biological environment available for me to work on at the time.”
 
Charlie joins Rowe Morrow as a patron of Permafund. Read Charlie’s full bio: http://formidablevegetable.com.au/band-members/

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