Supporters & Supporting

SUPPORT ORGANISATIONS

PATRONS

As we are engaging with communities in areas on the Melbourne east coastline of Port Phillip Bay, we thought it important to connect with state MPs, who are vested with the responsibility of looking after their local communities and are hands on with community support during past & current emergencies . We are honoured to have the following three patrons support our efforts in their communities:

Brad Rowswell MP, State Parliament of Victoria

David Southwick MP, State Parliament of Victoria

Nina Taylor MP, State Parliament of Victoria

Thank you to our amazing supporting organisations!

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GRANTOR - BENDIGO BANK

Bayside Community Emergency Relief are proudly supported by Highett Community Bank whose 2020 grant allowed us to purchase much needed items for our Comfort Packs for vulnerable elderly in Bayside’s Not For Profit aged care facilities. Through their support we are able to provide more items for our care packs for 538 Covid vulnerable across 7 aged care homes in Bayside.

In 2021 we received another grant that will foster our community partnership. Exciting details to be announced soon!

GRANTOR - BAYSIDE CITY COUNCIL

We are proudly supported by the Bayside City Council, who with a grant in 2020 to support our Comfort Packs for vulnerable elderly in Bayside’s Not For Profit aged care facilities. These packs went to 538 Covid vulnerable elderly across 7 aged care homes in Bayside.

GRANTOR - GLEN EIRA CITY COUNCIL

We are proudly supported by Glen Eira City Council, who have given us a grant in 2021to organise Comfort Packs for adults & children fleeing domestic violence.The packs will be delivered to the children in the Glen Eira region through Orange Door.

GRANTOR - CITY OF KINGSTON

We are proudly supported by City of Kingston who have given us a grant to produce comfort packs for two not-for-profit aged care homes in the Kingston area.

GRANTOR - WESTFIELD SOUTHLAND

We are proudly supported by Westfield Southland who provided us a grant for our children fleeing domestic violence comfort packs.

GRANTOR - FRANKSTON CITY COUNCIL

We are proudly supported by Frankston City Council who have awarded us a grant to help with comfort packs for children fleeing domestic violence.

GRANTOR - AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT

We are proudly supported by the Federal government's Community Volunteer grant program.

GOODWILL AMBASSADORS

Mark Santomartino

We are delighted to welcome Mark Santomartino as our Goodwill Ambassador.

Mark is a talented multi-media journalist, producer, presenter and content developer and is a journalist with Nine News Melbourne. Mark’s career began as a newsreader and producer for community radio and TV. Community is very much a driving force for Mark & his values align well with ours.

In 2017 Mark joined the team at channel 9 as a breaking news reporter in and since then has filed reports for the TODAY Show and from the 9NEWS Canberra bureau. Mark was previously a reporter at Sky News Melbourne where he was first to report live-on-air during rolling coverage of the Bourke Street rampage.