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Your donation helps children learn
The Appeal is a Tasmanian initiative, specifically focused on supporting local families experiencing severe financial pressure to manage the everyday costs of family life, while also giving their children the best possible start at school.
$20 = Learning Basics
Helps provide essential stationery so a child can participate confidently in the classroom. Exercise books and stationery items, pens, pencils, erasers and rulers, glue sticks and colouring supplies.
$50 = Classroom Ready
Your generosity helps support a student with the equipment they need for everyday learning. A complete stationery pack
Pencil case and folders
Basic calculator and art supplies
$120 = 1st School Day
Helps ensure children have both learning essentials and practical school items for their education.
School or sports shoes
Stationery essentials
Lunch box and drink bottle
$150 = School Uniform
Helps a child feel included and gives them the ability to attend school with dignity and confidence.
School uniform items
Jumper or jacket for colder months
School socks and hat
$200 = BTS Support
Back to school support provides a child with everything they need to start the school year prepared.
School backpack, complete stationery and art supplies, school shoes, lunch box and drink bottle.
$500 = Family Support
Helps support multiple children in one family with their school needs. School essentials for two to three children. Uniform items and shoes, backpacks and stationery, learning resources to support throughout the school year.
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For many Tasmanian families, it is the difference between participation and exclusion, between dignity and distress.
With donor support, St Vincent de Paul Society Tasmania can ensure that no child starts the school year without the essentials they need to learn, belong, and thrive.
A single mother with severe spinal injuries, I was living on $62 a fortnight after rent and bills, often not eating so my teenage son could. Through Vinnies’ support, my son received school uniforms and access to all school activities, while they supported me with health care coordination and ongoing case management.
School Essentials meant my son could participate fully at school — and I could finally focus on healing.
Brooke, Montrose TAS
After fleeing a violent relationship with my 9 year old daughter and adult son, we arrived in Tasmania with nothing. My son had no income support and we lived in a tent - sleeping rough, we had no home.
Vinnies helped us find stability and support from the School Essentials Appeal helped ensure my daughter could continue her education, despite the extreme instability we were experiencing at the time.
Moira, Scottsdale TAS
SCHOOL ESSENTIALS IS NOT AN "EXTRA"
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What families are choosing between
Families seeking School Essentials support are often choosing between:
Food and school uniformsPower bills and shoes that fit
Medical needs and school participation costs
Transport to school and groceries
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) debt was repeatedly identified as a driver of crisis, with families using it to cover Christmas and back-to-school costs, only to face crippling repayments weeks later.
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