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AFDIF is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to creating a more inclusive Australian screen industry. It empowers people from underrepresented backgrounds, including culturally diverse communities, people with disabilities, and First Nations peoples, to tell their own stories through film and digital media.
Its “Through Our Eyes” project delivers accessible workshops in photography and visual storytelling, giving participants the skills to create short films based on their lived experiences, which are then showcased at community screenings and film festivals.
The grant would provide a Canon camera kit, enabling AFDIF to offer a professional-quality filmmaking solution suitable for all skill levels. The equipment will be essential for creating documentaries and helping a new generation of storytellers share their voices.
Co-Hive is an education-driven community for young adults with autism, ADHD, and mild intellectual or psychosocial disabilities who often fall through the gaps in post-school support. Co-Hive’s model builds real, transferable skills through hands-on, experiential learning, creating a lifelong community that counters the isolation many of these young adults experience.
The grant will support Co-Hive’s Creative Industry Employment Pathways program, which gives participants the tools to explore careers in film, journalism, and podcasting. A centrepiece of the program is an annual short film submission to the Focus on Ability Film Festival, Australia’s largest film festival celebrating people with disability.
Canon’s professional-grade equipment could be placed directly into participants’ hands, giving them the real-world experience needed to build their portfolios, practise independently, and develop the creative skills required for employment and further study.
Smart Pups Assistance Dogs is a not-for-profit that trains and places assistance dogs with children living with autism, diabetes, epilepsy, and other special needs. For these children, a Smart Pups dog can be a vital partner in building confidence, independence, and connection with the world around them.
As part of its new Community Shed initiative, Smart Pups is creating a shared space where families, volunteers, and young people can learn and contribute to the assistance dog training program. The “Through Their Eyes” project will use visual storytelling to document the quiet, powerful moments of connection that happen there.
Canon equipment would help the Smart Pups team capture the journey, used to document everything from young people learning new skills to a child confidently walking beside their assistance dog for the first time, helping to raise awareness of disability inclusion.
The Charlestown East Public School P&C supports its school by funding resources and running volunteer-led activities. Inspired by a student’s idea, the P&C is helping to launch “The Charlestown East Voice”, a student-led newspaper and photo studio.
The project will give every K-6 student a real-world role as a reporter, photographer, or editor, building literacy and confidence. Their first campaign will document the school’s project to turn recycled plastic into a new bike rack, bringing circular-economy thinking to life.
The grant would provide a student-friendly Canon camera and printer, the essential tools the newspaper depends on for capturing classroom life and printing the paper on-site.
RNS exists to unlock the strength and purpose of young refugee and asylum-seeker women through inclusive education. It provides a uniquely integrated ecosystem of education and wellbeing support, helping students navigate the trauma of displacement and interrupted schooling.
The school’s project, “What They Started”, is a youth-led documentary and oral history initiative to preserve the founding story of RNS. It will empower students with skills in interviewing and storytelling, allowing them to honour the school's founders and create a lasting historical record.
The grant would provide professional videography equipment, enabling the students to produce a high-quality documentary that tells a powerful story of vision, leadership, and community.
Trinity Bay State High School is a large, co-ed school in Cairns supporting a diverse student population, including many Indigenous students, boarders, and students from migrant backgrounds.
Its purpose is to provide inclusive, high-quality education that recognises and values every voice. To further this, the school is establishing “The Tbay Podcast”, a student-led platform for young people to share their stories. Students will be trained as producers, interviewers, and editors, creating a sustainable platform for youth voice and connection.
Canon gear that could be provided through the grant would remove a significant barrier, giving students access to professional tools for storytelling and helping build a lasting media platform.
Brainwave Bikes is Australia’s largest non-profit bicycle shop, dedicated to diverting bicycles from landfill and transforming them into high-quality pre-pedalled bikes. The refurbishment process serves as a vocational training ground for young people with disabilities, providing them with employment pathways.
While thousands of bikes are rescued from the waste stream, the primary barrier to re-homing them is second-hand stigma. The Canon Photo Booth project aims to bridge this gap by creating a high-resolution imaging station where youth mechanics can document the technical precision and safety of their work with professional clarity.
Canon camera and lighting equipment would allow the trainees to capture the raw, honest detail of the bikes. By providing new-bike clarity for recycled products, the project aims to increase turnover and build customer trust, ensuring more bicycles are diverted from landfill.
Turtles in Trouble Rescue is a dedicated volunteer group formed to respond to the environmental disaster caused by the 2021–2022 floods on the Fraser Coast. The team responds to call-outs for sick or injured sea turtles, which are hugely significant to the local Butchulla Nation and the marine ecosystem.
Volunteers currently rely on phones to capture much-needed photographic evidence. Clear images are vital for identifying individual turtles, documenting injuries, and providing data to the Department of Environment, Technology, Science and Innovation (DETSI).
The grant would provide a Canon camera to greatly assist the volunteers in their critical work, supplying clear photographic evidence for internal records and the DETSI team and improving data quality.
Many of Australia’s endangered plant species are facing reduced seed production, but conservation practitioners often lack the specialist training to identify the cause. To address this, the Threatened Rare and Endemic (TRE) plant research group at UNSW is creating a free public field guide to help test for sterility.
The project will provide practitioners with the skills to diagnose reproductive issues in endangered species, a critical step in planning effective conservation actions like breeding programs or population rescue. The guide will include a decision tree, field methods, and high-quality indicative images of key reproductive flower structures.
Equipment from Canon would be essential for capturing these images and enabling the team to produce high-resolution photographs of the critical, microscopic parts of the flowers. This creates a tangible training and knowledge resource for the entire conservation community.
Wanparta Aboriginal Corporation is the trustee for the native title rights and interests of the Ngarla People of the Pilbara region in Western Australia. It exists to protect and care for Ngarla Country, ensuring the People’s deep and ongoing connection to their land is preserved for future generations.
The grant supports a project to record the oral histories of Ngarla Elders and document heritage sites, including through archaeological excavation and the identification of ancestral remains. It will also build lasting photography and videography skills in young Aboriginal people, strengthening intergenerational cultural connection.
For a remote community without access to capital funding, a Canon gear would provides the essential tools needed to record irreplaceable Elder knowledge. This equipment will enable the Ngarla People to document their heritage and train the next generation in cultural preservation.
Guthrie House is a specialist women’s recovery service supporting those impacted by trauma, homelessness, and the criminal justice system. With approximately 78% of women accessing the service identifying as Aboriginal, the organisation provides culturally safe and gender-responsive support grounded in dignity and respect.
The “Through Our Eyes” project aims to strengthen social and emotional wellbeing for Aboriginal women at Guthrie House through photography, storytelling, and creative expression. The initiative allows women to explore identity, healing, and belonging by capturing meaningful images connected to their lived experiences and developing them into healing cards for ongoing use.
With user-friendly Canon cameras and photo printer equipment, participants could document their own stories of healing and connection. This will support the creation of lasting, participant-led visual resources that will become an integral part of Guthrie House’s therapeutic and cultural healing programs.
Ingarlgalandij Arts and Culture Hub is a community-owned and governed Aboriginal corporation established to strengthen Bardi Jawi language, stories, and culture in the Kimberley. Its vision is to ensure Bardi Jawi people remain the custodians, interpreters, and future creators of their own narratives.
With the nearest professional printing service 214km away, the community lacks the infrastructure to document and share its culture. Canon’s grant will help establish permanent, community-owned visual storytelling resources, enabling people to preserve and share their stories through exhibitions, photo books, and cultural materials on their own terms.
Canon printing equipment would have a monumental impact, not just funding a project, but creating lasting cultural infrastructure, generating new access, opportunities, and ambition for Elders and future generations to document and preserve their culture.
