The Honda Foundation Gala Dinner

The inaugural Gala Dinner for The Honda Foundation will take place on Saturday, 14th August 2010. Initiated and strongly supported by the New South Wales Honda dealer network, the dinner aims to raise...

Menzies Inc - Youth Services Melbourne

Community organisation Menzies Inc. in Victoria can now upgrade its facilities for participants in its animal care program, thanks to a generous donation of $6,000 from The Honda Foundation and Travis Honda in...

Royal Children's Hospital Foundation

The Honda Foundation and Austral Honda in Queensland, has given a helping hand to the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation (QLD) with a donation of almost $30,000 to purchase a cryogenic storage facility...

NRMA Careflight

NRMA CareFlight patients in New South Wales can now breathe easier, thanks to a recent donation of $30,000 from The Honda Foundation and Trivett Honda in Parramatta. The Elisee™ 350 Ventilator mechanically...

Killarney Aged Care

The Killarney Memorial Aged Care facility in southern Queensland has been able to purchase much needed equipment for its 36 residents thanks to a donation from The Honda Foundation and Graeme Collins Honda....

Self-Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH)

An early Christmas present from The Honda Foundation has helped ensure community organisation Self-Help for Hard of Hearing People (SHHH), can educate hearing-impaired people in NSW on devices available for...

Murdoch Community Services

If your garden needs some TLC, then you need to call the Murdoch Community Services (MCS) gardening teams! The MCS Garden Service team, in the rural area of St. Arnaud in Victoria, is now the proud owner...

Life Education

A brand new Honda Civic Hybrid was recently delivered to not-for-profit organisation Life Education, to assist their Education and Training Department throughout New South Wales. Life Education, which...

Taralye

The lives of hearing-impaired children and their families assisted by community organisation Taralye will be made easier, thanks to the support of the ‘Honda Heroes’ program by The Honda Foundation. With...

Dungog Shire Palliative Care

Dungog Shire Palliative Care volunteers have been provided with a brand new set of wheels. Hunter Honda and The Honda Foundation have supplied a Honda Odyssey to the organisation. The Honda Heroes Odyssey is...

Sylvanvale Foundation

The Honda Foundation and Tynan Honda have given Sylvanvale Foundation’s Day Program service the keys to a new set of wheels – a Honda Odyssey. Sylvanvale Foundation has been providing support to people with...

Tiny Camera Plays a Vital Role in Cancer Treatment

Cancer patients at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) in South Australia will benefit from a new Mediastinoscope, thanks to The Honda Foundation and Dave Potter Honda. A donation of $13,000 to the Flinders...

Giving Whitsunday Community Services a Lift

Whitsunday Community Services (WCS) has recently purchased a new hydraulic lift worth $5,500 thanks to the support of The Honda Foundation and Carlisle Honda in far-north Queensland. The hydraulic lift will...

Australian Dr. Ian Frazer to receive the 2009 Honda Prize (Japan)

The Honda Foundation (Japan), co-founded by Soichiro Honda and his younger brother Benjiro Honda and currently headed by Hiromori Kawashima, is pleased to announce the Honda Prize for the year 2009 will be...

Bayley House

The Honda Foundation and Robert Lane Honda in Melbourne, have delivered the residents of Bayley House’s Lubrano Street accommodation with a new set of wheels – a Honda Odyssey. The Odyssey will enable the...

Evolve

The Honda Foundation and Darryl Twitt Honda in Shepparton has delivered a brand new Honda CR-V for use by community organisation Evolve at Typo Station (Evolve), to assist young people affected by the Black...

The Honda Foundation Educates Young Drivers

Mr. Lindsay Smalley, Chairman of The Honda Foundation, presented a cheque for $116,000 to Ms. Vittoria Borazio, Chief Operating Officer of Youth Off The Streets for their young driver training program. The...

The Honda Foundation Donates $5,000 to Assist NSW Rural Fire Service

The Honda Foundation has donated $5,000 to the Liverpool Range Support Brigade to assist the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. Patrons of the recent AgQuip Field Days at Gunnedah helped raise the money by...

Honda MPE donates $850,000 to Lighthouse Foundation

A new Lighthouse Foundation “Honda Home” opened it’s doors in Greenvale in the Northern suburbs of Melbourne on November 26, 2008 to provide long term live in accommodation to young people who would otherwise...

Western Chances

Students studying advanced mathematics in their VCE Years 11&12, required a specialist Graphics Calculator costing over $200 for their studies. Mathematics is fundamental for many higher education degrees,...

Caring for kids - Sleep can be a vulnerable time for children

Breathing disorders can affect children from the neonatal period right through to adolescence. Young children are particularly susceptible to a number of conditions that affect the respiratory rate and rhythm....

St Lucy’s is a caring place with a nurturing atmosphere all of its own

St Lucy’s is a unique primary school. It specializes in getting young children with a range of disabilities ready for mainstream school. The students come from a wide variety of locations across Sydney, with...

We must become the Angels of our better nature

Neither pretty nor glamorous, the Father Bob Maguire Foundation is out there working with severely disadvantaged people that society often forgets. From street kids to families experiencing the hardships of...

Enough is enough

Bullying is a social disease that is prevalent in most Australian schools. It is harmful to the health, well being and the academic progress of a very substantial number of students. Fortunately, actions taken...

Advocating for the rights of the disadvantaged

Pilbara Community Legal Service's works to assist and educate disadvantaged people across the vast Pilbara region. With a regional office located in South Hedland in the north west of Western Australia, the...

Helping families cope with the death of a loved one

Peninsula Hospice Service (PHS) is a not for profit community organization that provides expert palliative care and practical support to assist people living in their own homes with a terminal illness, as well...

Offering a home to families in their hour of need

People living in rural and remote areas of Australia face many challenges, but perhaps one of the most significant is the reduced access to health care services. In the Northern Territory, patients and...

A Playground where all children can play together

The St Giles Society is one of Tasmania's largest disability service providers. Each year it provides services to an estimated 2,500 children and adults, delivering over 400,000 hours of professional care....

Helping families in Queensland cope with a rare medical condition

Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a rare genetic skin disease that causes the skin to blister externally and internally. Cases range from mild to severe, but even mild cases cause ongoing pain and require daily...

Live Free - Teen Challenge International Victoria

The Live Free program run by Teen Challenge Victoria is a unique 12 month residential treatment and vocational training program for young men with serious drug and alcohol addictions operating on a 60 acre...

Huntington’s Victoria

Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a genetic condition that affects the brain, destroying the brain cells which affect the way people think, feel and move. There is currently no cure for the disease but limited...

John Hunter Children's Hospital

The John Hunter Children's Hospital in Newcastle is the major referral centre for children and young people from across for the Lake Macquarie, Hunter Valley and New England regions of New South Wales. The...

Hepatitis Australia

Worldwide, over 400 million people have chronic hepatitis B, and it is estimated that up to 160,000 Australians are living with chronic hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is the most common infectious disease...

Variety - Bringing a simple joy into children's lives.

For young children, the local playground is a place of fun, play and shared enjoyment. Swings provide a sense of freedom and a sense of adventure, seeing how high you can go. But for children in wheelchairs,...

Studio ARTES

Steve Passfield, is the 2008 Tamworth Country Music Festival Golden Guitar Award Winner and he has a dream. A dream he shares with the budding musicians of Studio ARTES, a community organization providing...

Bluey begins Guide Dog Training

The Honda Foundation with the support of Yarra Honda in Melbourne has provided $25,000 in sponsorship funding to Guide Dogs Victoria, to train “Bluey” to be a professional working Guide Dog. Bluey who is a...

Honda Australia pledges its support to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal

On the 9th of February, The Honda Foundation donated $200,000 to the Victorian Bushfire Appeal Fund, to help rebuild the shattered lives of the many Victorians who lost everything in the devastating fires....

Breathing a little easier

Over 2 million Australians have asthma. That is one in nine children and one in ten adults. People with asthma have sensitive airways, when they are exposed to certain triggers their airways narrow making it...

The Honda Foundation Pandemic Influenza Research Institute

The Honda Foundation with the support of all the Honda dealerships in Australia has donated $500,000 to support world-leading medical research to fight the threat of a global bird flu pandemic that threatens...

Helping Heartkids understand what they are going through

Heart disease in children is the leading cause of child death in Australia, accounting for more than 30% of all deaths. It is the most common reason for admission of Australian children to intensive care...

Helping deaf children learn to speak

Hearing impairment affects 1 in 5 individuals throughout their lifetime. Children have a diverse range of needs associated with hearing loss. Children who are deaf or hearing impaired who receive appropriate...

Young Driver Training Program

Nineteen year old Krista Anne Walker is the first graduate from the Young Driver Training Program, a unique partnership between the Honda Foundation and Father Chris Riley’s Youth of the Streets in Sydney....

Child Wise is dedicated to protecting children

Child Abuse has devastating consequences for children. It damages children physically, emotionally and behaviourally. It’s consequences impact on the individual, on families and on the community for many...

1 in 11 women are at risk of breast cancer

Each year around Australia 11,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Many of these women live in regional and rural areas where hospitals are not fully equipped to provide appropriate cancer treatments....

Surgical equipment for the Skin and Cancer Foundation

Australians have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the world, with over 380,000 people diagnosed every year. One in two Australians will develop a skin cancer at some time in their lives. Skin cancer is...

Enhancing the quality of life in Aged Care Facilities

As the ‘baby boomer’ generation grows older, Australia is finding itself with a rapidly rising aged population. Twelve per cent of Australians, more than 2.4 million are currently aged 65 years or older. This...

Helping Young Women in Crisis

The Honda Foundation with the support of Hornsby Honda in North Sydney, has provided $15,000 in sponsorship funding to Mercy Ministries for the refurbishment of their Glenhaven Home in Sydney, to support their...

At Mount Evelyn we share, care and support one another

Mount Evelyn receives funding from the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development based on its enrolment numbers. Being a small school of 130 students, extra funding has to be sourced...

Understanding why babies are born prematurely

The rate of premature births has not changed in the last 40 years, despite the ability to keep little babies alive from 24 weeks of gestation. Sadly, premature birth is the major contributor to infant deaths...

Supporting the rehabilitation of elderly patients

St. Vincent's Hospital is one of Sydney's leading public hospitals providing over 320 medical and surgical beds, and treating more than half a million patients from across Sydney and New South Wales each year....

Helping disadvantaged Australians for the last 150 years

Over the next 50 years, the number of people in Australia over 65 will double, and those over 85 will increase fourfold. There will be an increasing number of older people managing chronic health conditions...

Supporting the Royal District Nursing Service

Of all the specialist services provided by RDNS it is the demand for wound care that is increasing most rapidly. Approximately 36 % of all clients now require some kind of wound care, including post-operative...

Together we can help to make a difference

At the recent 2008 Australian Formula One Grand Prix, the Honda Racing F1 Team and the Honda Foundation teamed up to make the world a better place for disadvantaged young Australians through the donation of...

New Medical Equipment for Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre

The Victorian Spinal Cord Service is one of only six such specialist services in Australia. It provides acute management and rehabilitation for people who sustain traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord...

WA sailors qualify for 2008 Paralympics in China

Members of Sailabilty WA, based at the Royal Perth Yacht Club have qualified to represent Australia at the 2008 Paralympics in Quindao, China. Competing at the 2007 World Disabled Sailing Championships in...

Giving newborns the very best chance of a healthy life

The Honda Foundation with the support of Southside Honda was delighted to recently approve sponsorship funding of $20,000 for the purchase of a ECG Machine for the new Mater Mother’s Hospital in Queensland....

“He could hear his own voice for the first time in years”

The Ballarat branch of the Menieres Disease Support Group of Victoria was established in 2002 in response to local demand and the need to offer support and information for family, carers and sufferers of...

Prevention is better than cure. The Mid West Life Education Program

In March 2008, the Australian Federal Government unveiled a new national plan to target the alarming youth binge-drinking culture affecting young people across Australia. Health Minister Nicola Roxon says...

Assistance Dogs support people with a disability

Canine Helpers for the Disabled is a not for profit organisation based in Brisbane that provides highly trained Assistance Dogs to support people with a disability. Assistance Dogs can dramatically improve...

Helping deaf and hearing impaired children have a brighter future

Until quite recently, the lack of suitable diagnostic equipment meant that children were only identified with hearing loss as late as 3 to 4 years of age. This meant that the majority of these children were...

Supporting carer’s and their families - Ingham Parents Support Group

The Ingham Parents Support Group was formed in 1976 to help people with disabilities to participate and be included in community life. Ingham is a small community of approximately 15,000 people located 110...

Discovering the causes of Childhood Diseases

The Gene Therapy Research Unit at the Children’s Medical Research Institute recently sought the support of the Honda Foundation to purchase essential specialist equipment for their research laboratories. They...

Jazz gives birth to a healthy litter.

On the 16th of November Jazz, gave birth to her first litter of 9 puppies, 7 boys and 2 girls. Her mate Herbie, the Goldern Retriever stud dog was really quite proud of his work. Mum and the kids are all doing...

Café Best - Gourmet Café and Catering service

Young adults with disabilities are often disadvantaged in their search for meaningful employment. They can experience limited work opportunities and negative perceptions of their abilities that inhibits...

Enriching people’s lives through the power of music

The healing power of music is an age-old phenomenon. Creative music therapy is based on the belief that every person has the creative potential for responding positively to music and that music can be a...

Furnished by The Honda Foundation

The Leukaemia Foundation of Queensland is a not for profit organisation focused on the care and support of patients and their families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders....

Supporting ground breaking research into Childhood Illness

Marking its 15th anniversary, the Honda Foundation has achieved a significant milestone by making its 500th donation to charities aiding the Australian community. The milestone charity is the Royal...

Honda Foundation Drives Puppy Training

The Honda Foundation has teamed up with Assistance Dogs Australia to provide support and much-needed freedom and independence to physically disabled people. The Honda Foundation sponsors Assistance...

New rescue boat for North Wollongong Surf Life Saving Club

The North Wollongong Surf Life Saving Club was established in 1908 and currently has over 200 senior and junior active members. The Club has been the venue for two Australian Surf Life Saving Championships,...

Life saving equipment for Helicopter Emergency Service

Early diagnosis is a crucial ‘window of opportunity’ for lifesaving measures to be undertaken, as every minute saved can shape a patient’s recovery. Each year the Emergency & Trauma Centre at The Alfred...

Sunrise Health Service

In October 2002, the Fred Hollows Foundation, in partnership with the Sunrise Health Service successfully applied for funding from The Honda Foundation to undertake a regional program to address the...

St.John Ambulance - Goulburn Division

St John Ambulance Australia is a charitable organisation dedicated to helping people in sickness, distress, suffering or danger regardless of race, colour or creed. “What an absolute thrill it was last...

Starlight Fun Centre’s for Australia’s largest Children’s Hospital

“Looking after a child with a chronic or life threatening illness requires a comprehensive ‘total’ approach to care, a healing environment that includes entertainment, diversion, fun, laughter and joy....

Honda Foundation gift provides vital equipment for RFDS

The Honda Foundation has donated $60,000 to the Royal Flying Doctor Service for crucial medical equipment used on the service’s emergency aircraft. The donation will buy four ventilators used to...

New outreach trailer for Launceston City Mission

The Launceston City Mission’s outreach service in Tasmania has been operating for 10 years on the streets and in the parks of Launceston CBD and surrounding suburbs. Operating late at night on the...

Supporting the next generation of Guide Dogs for Victoria

The Honda Foundation and sponsoring partner Yarra Honda are thrilled to learn that Guide Dogs Victoria has selected Jazz, to be part of the highly selective Guide Dog breeding program. Only Guide Dogs who...

Braille opens up a world of information

For many of us, sight is so much part of our lives that we don’t appreciate it until it’s gone. Yet as our population ages, vision loss is something that many of us will experience if not first hand, then...

Virtual support rooms for Lifeline Canberra

In 2004 the Mission Australia National Youth Survey revealed that 34% of young people in the ACT and New South Wales regard suicide/self harm as an issue affecting their lives. In the same period, the Kids...

Securing Jacaranda Gardens

Calvary Health Care Bethlehem is a very special environment that cares for the sick and dying, providing support for patients, their families and their friends. Last month The Honda Foundation, with support...

I've graduated...

Dear Honda Foundation I am writing with wonderful news! I have officially passed all of my Guide Dog training, and now have a new partner. We're currently completing our matching training...

Horse Riding develops Ability

Riding for the Disabled offers life enhancing horse riding activities for physically and emotionally disadvantaged people, mostly children, who are not normally able to engage in the fun and games their peers...

Sutherland Early Support Services

The Sutherland Early Support Service is an early intervention program which provides free home visits by trained volunteers to support mothers with new babies and children up to 3 years of age. Supporting...

Hoist gives a lift to hydrotherapy patients

On the 5th of June, 2007 the Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre launched a new ceiling hoist, designed to lift patients directly from their wheelchair and lower them into the centre’s hydrotherapy pool. The...

Assisting Cancer Support Groups

Being told you have cancer can be a very worrying and confusing time for patients, their family and friends. There are many decisions to make about the treatment and care to consider. Being part of a support...

Awesome for All Arts Festival

Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds often lack access to arts experiences and arts festivals due to financial constraints, transport issues and a variety of social factors. These young people may feel...

A friend in need

A quiet Irishman, and an organization called Heartkids based at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, have enlisted The Honda Foundation’s help to combat one of the most frightening experiences children...

Helping the Dicky Beach Surf Life Saving Club protect lives

For more than 50 years the Dicky Beach Surf Life Club on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has proudly served the community. Patrolling ten kilometres of beautiful coastline every weekend, over 150 Surf...

Life saving equipment for Premature Babies

The neonatal unit at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne specialises in the intensive care of premature and sick newborn babies. In 2006, the neonatal unit treated almost 1,500 babies with 240 of these...

Westside Circus

“The day it hit me, that we were making a big difference to these young people lives was when I arrived one day with a bus full of circus gear, a young Ethiopian boy came running down the driveway to greet me...

Save the Children Queensland

For the last 17 years, Save the Children has worked in partnership with local community agencies in Queensland to deliver the Future Parents Program, providing young people with the opportunity to develop...

Breakaway SWINGS into Action

Breakaway was established in 1982 to enhance the lives of children and adults with physical disabilities. It is a place where people with disabilities can enjoy a break from the institution in which they live...

Bringing the sun, surf and sand to people with a disability

Northcott Disability Services has been supporting children and adults with a disability in New South Wales since 1929. Today Northcott provides services to more than 6,000 individuals and families across the...

One in five teenagers leave school without completing Year 12

Every year 1 in 5 Australian teenagers leave school without completing Year 12 and for a significant group this can mean long periods of unemployment, low wages and limited social engagement. The City...

New wheelchairs for the Australian Red Cross

The Bundaberg Branch of the Australian Red Cross in Queensland provides a wheelchair hire service for people recovering from surgery, illness and injuries, and for patients in palliative care at the Bundaberg...

Preventing S.A.D. Teens

For the second time, Scotts Honda and the Honda Foundation have donated much needed funding to Dr Kidman’s S.A.D. Kids Program. Coordinated through the University of Technology, Sydney and delivered by the...

Honda Foundation supports disadvantaged kids

The Honda Foundation and Peter Warren Honda are supporting 250 disadvantaged children through a $15,000 donation to the Fairfield Community Resource Centre’s (FCRC) Roving Childcare service. The money will...

Honda lends a Hand

The Honda Foundation recently made a $8,000 Grant to Concern Australia's - Hand Brake Turn Program, on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Over 90 young people a year undertake the Automotive program with...

Puppy Love

The Honda Foundation and Yarra Honda, have recently sponsored a Guide Dog puppy with a donation of $25,000. This sponsorship support will allow a seven-week-old pup named 'JAZZ' to undertake the necessary...

'Indy', on his first official visit

Indy, Guide Dogs Queensland's new poodle pup recruit, put his people skills to the test when he paid his first official visit to his corporate sponsor - Northside Honda at Nundah. Seven-month-old Indy is one...

Doggedly determined

The Honda Foundation means many things to many people - and to Guide Dogs Queensland, it also means a special new recruit. Check out your signs of the zodiac and you’ll see that among the traits of the...

My first bike!

Alexander sports a grin about a kilometre wide - and no wonder. The four-year-old from Sydney’s north has just discovered the thrill of motion on two wheels. Luca looks a little more circumspect, but hey, this...

Glenleighden School - a growing garden for growing children

Silence may be golden, but not if it masks a child’s distress at being unable to cope with language, the currency of daily life. Soon a unique Australian school will have a garden in which its...

Cutting edge research into Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, representing up to 70% of all cases. It is characterised by a progressive loss of memory and intellect, and accompanied by changes in personality and...

On a wing & a prayer

Check your purse or wallet and see if there’s a 20-dollar note in there. If there is, take a close look at the man whose face features on one side of the note. Now for some mental arithmetic. How many $20...

The Honda Foundation helps Canberra victims

In March 2003, The Honda Foundation announced a donation of $100,000 to assist the victims of the bushfires that imperilled Canberra at the end of our long, hot summer. The submission on...