Foundation Review
2021–2023
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Our History James and Diana Ramsay Our Work The James and Diana Ramsay Foundation Executive Director's Report Kerry de Lorme Grant Highlights Arts Grant Highlights Health Grant Highlights Youth Programs Grant Highlights Capacity Grants Our Partners Foundation Partners 2021–2023 Foundation Partner Event February 2023 Our People Board of Directors and Staff
James and Diana Ramsay Diana May Ramsay AO (1926–2017) was a member of the well-known South Australian Hamilton winemaking family. Diana grew up in Adelaide and was schooled at Woodlands Church of England Girls Grammar School in Glenelg. After leaving school Diana commenced voluntary work with the Red Cross, which led her to study social science at The University of Adelaide. In 1955, Diana moved to Sydney and worked in various hospitals, including The Women’s Hospital in New South Wales and Prince Henry’s Hospital in Victoria. Diana returned to Adelaide in 1963 with her husband James, whom she married in 1960, and started work as a social worker at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Diana loved playing hockey and was a member of the South Australian State Women’s Hockey team from 1945–47. Later she become a keen golfer and was an active member of the Royal Sydney and Royal Adelaide golf clubs. Diana was extremely proud to be the founder of the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation, which was launched in December 2009.
James Stewart Ramsay AO (1923–1996) grew up in Launceston, Tasmania, son of pioneering surgeon, Sir John Ramsay CBE, and Lady Ramsay. Sir John was surgeon superintendent of the Launceston General Hospital between 1896 and 1912; founder of his own private hospital St. Margaret’s in Launceston in 1912, which is now owned by Calvary; and co-founder of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. The Ramsay name is also synonymous with the famous boot polish company KIWI, which was founded by James’ uncle William Ramsay. James is also the nephew of the famous artist Hugh Ramsay. James attended Scotch College in Launceston and later Geelong College in Melbourne. James was extremely keen to serve his country and applied to become a soldier in the Australian Military Forces during World War II. Whilst ill health prevented him from serving on the frontline, he was a wellrespected finance officer within the military. After a very happy and accomplished life, James lost his battle with cancer in 1996.
It is well known that James and Diana were great admirers and benefactors to the performing and visual arts, and were also very generous in providing funds for medical scholarships, funding medical work in rural regions, as well as supporting young people at risk. James and Diana made the most of their 36 years together and enjoyed travelling around the world to experience other cultures and especially to see the arts. James and Diana Ramsay were both appointed as Officers of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1992 for their extraordinary philanthropy and service to the arts and the community.
The James and Diana Ramsay Bequest Fund Art Gallery of South Australia One of the most extraordinary Australian cultural gifts ever made was announced in November 2019. A $38 million bequest to The Art Gallery of South Australia from the estates of James Ramsay AO and Diana Ramsay AO. The Felton Bequest was James and Diana’s inspiration for their philanthropic journey; however, they would not have known at the time that their own legacy would rival the famous Felton Bequest that has been so transformational for the collections at the National Gallery of Victoria. Under the terms of the James and Diana Ramsay Bequest Fund, this capital fund will continue to grow and allows only a portion of the annual interest to be allocated for the acquisition of major works. The vision and foresight of James and Diana is inspiring, and such legacies make an exceptional impact on collections, careers and communities. Cover image: Good Job by Carly Snoswell. Photo: Sam Roberts. Base left: Patch Theatre, Sea of Light. Photo: Clare Hawley, Nicole McKenzie Base right: The Art Gallery of South Australia. Photo: Saul Steed.
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Purpose and Mission Our Purpose To honour the legacy of the founder, Diana Ramsay AO and her husband James Ramsay AO, and their spirit of generosity.
Our Mission Guided by our purpose, we will:
Champion a robust arts sector, increase accessibility to the arts and create career pathways Encourage opportunities to explore and progress health innovations Support programs to promote wellbeing and resilience in young people
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Impact Summary Project
Arts
Adelaide Festival
Health
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Education
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Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation
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Adelaide Film Festival
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Adelaide Fringe
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Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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Adelaide Youth Orchestra
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The Art Gallery of South Australia
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The Art Gallery of South Australia - Ramsay Art Prize
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The Australian Ballet
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Australian Cultural Fund
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Australian Schools Plus Batyr Australia Limited
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Body Confident Collective
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Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation
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Carclew Inc
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Friends of the Womens and Childrens Hospital Inc
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Helpmann Academy
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Holiday Explorers Inc
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Leaders Institute *
Operation Flinders Foundation
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Paperboat Ventures
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Patch Theatre Company Inc
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Pembroke School
Raising Literacy Australia Inc
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Recitals Australia
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Restless Dance Theatre
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South Australian Council of Social Service
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South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute State Opera of South Australia
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State Theatre Company South Australia
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Youth Opportunities
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Youthinc
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James and Diana Ramsay. Portrait by Anna Platten
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Philanthropy Australia
University of South Australia
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Neurosurgical Research Foundation
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Guildhouse Inc
The Mill Inc
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Concordia College
Illuminate Adelaide Foundation
Capacity
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Executive Director's Report
In February 2023, the board and staff of the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation were thrilled to host an event to bring together our partner organisations, sector colleagues and friends of the Foundation to celebrate a milestone of $20M in grants distributed since it’s establishment in 2008. At the event, I emphasised that our focus extends beyond mere numerical figures, it’s about our partner organisations and the work that they do, and the people that they serve – they are bringing the Ramsay financial resource to life. Our guests said it was wonderful to hear directly from the people and organisations who benefit from funding from the Foundation and to hear about the work that the Foundation does outside of their respective sectors. Another occasion to be celebrated in 2023 is the centenary of the birth of James Ramsay AO, who would have turned 100 in July 2023. In the second half of 2023, we will honour James’s philanthropic vision, which is fundamental to the Foundation’s existence. To acknowledge this centenary, we have commissioned a few projects and supported some extraordinary ones. One is a book on the history of the Ramsays, their families and the establishment of the Foundation. It will highlight the power of perseverance and service to community, not only from James and Diana, but also their own pioneering and big-hearted families. We are hoping to launch this in the first half of 2024. We were thrilled to support The Australian Ballet Company in their dynamic new vision of a timeless classic, Swan Lake, which will be the highlight of their 60th-anniversary celebrations in October 2023. We are honoured that they will dedicate the Adelaide season of Swan Lake to James Ramsay AO, a fitting tribute to a man and his vision for the arts.
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The largest share of support from the Foundation is directed to the visual and performing arts, and despite various Covid-19 restraints, Adelaide was extremely fortunate to be able to stage some wonderful productions, exhibitions and arts festivals in 2022 and 2023 - and to record audiences! A great result for artists, organisations and audiences alike. The Studio at The Art Gallery of South Australia celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2023. This program has been an outstanding success and offers a free, hands-on activity space for children and their families. Over the past ten years, almost 300,000 people have used the facilities in The Studio. I am thankful that we have such a diverse and active array of people around us, and thank the wise counsel of our board members, Nicholas Ross, Melissa Yule, Tim Edwards and Richard Jasek, and to those who have expertise in their respective fields who sit on our sub-committees. My personal thanks to Kiah, our grants manager who goes above and beyond and is the front-line person for many of the Foundation’s activities. We have a tremendous amount of respect for the organisations that we support and the people who are making a difference in our community, and we look forward to continuing to celebrate the success and impact of our partner organisations. Philanthropy is about the impact of personal stories, not statistics, and we always learn something new when we come together. We look forward to being on the ground with our partners over the coming years. - Kerry de Lorme Executive Director
The past two years: 2021–2023 Capacity 5% Youth 17%
Distributed over $3.8m to our partner organisations Grants by Category
Health 20%
Arts 58%
Approved $4.5m in new grant funding
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PROGRAMS SUPPORTED
NEW PROJECTS FUNDED
Top left: Kerry de Lorme, Executive Director. Photo: Liam West.
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Grant Highlights: Arts The Art Gallery of South Australia Ramsay Art Prize 2023 Open to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium, the Ramsay Art Prize has become one of the most generous art prizes in Australia, offering a lifechanging and highly sought after opportunity. A panel of judges selects the finalists, whose works are shown in a major exhibition at The Art Gallery of South Australia. The winning work is acquired by the Gallery and the artist is awarded $100,000. The Ramsay Art Prize 2023 winner was Ida Sophia, who won the prize for Witness, a performance-based video. Informed by the South Australian artist’s early childhood experience of observing her father’s baptism, Witness was shot in a single take at The Pool of Siloam in Beachport in regional South Australia. The single-channel video work depicts the artist in performance, undergoing a repetitive and intense series of submergences that take a single baptism to the level of relentless obsession. The work was chosen from more than 300 entries from across the country and the judges were unanimous in their decision.
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They described the winning work as sophisticated in concept and deeply emotive in subject. The 2023 panel of judges comprised of Aaron Seeto, Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Nusantara, Jakarta; Perth-based visual artist and creative producer Erin Coates; and Nici Cumpston OAM, Artistic Director of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at The Art Gallery of South Australia. The exhibition also awards a People’s Choice Prize worth $15,000, supported by sponsor LK Law, and decided by public vote. The winner for 2023 is Zaachariaha Fielding with his work titled Wonder Drug. To date, the Ramsay Art Prize has enabled 95 artists the opportunity to display their work in a state gallery, increasing their profile and further elevating their career as an artist. Many have gone on to be finalists and winners of other notable art prizes, and to tour their work nationally and internationally.
Grant Highlights: Arts
Left: Rhana Devenport, Kiah Elsworthy, Kerry de Lorme, Ida Sophia and Richard Jasek. Photo: Sam Roberts Right, clockwise from top left: Ramsay Art Prize media preview. Photo: Sam Roberts Nick Ross announcing winner. Photo: Sam Roberts Ida Sophia with her work Witness. Photo: Saul Steed Kiah Elsworthy, Richard Jasek, Melissa Yule, Nick Ross, Kerry de Lorme, Tim Edwards, Rhana Devenport, Aaron Seeto, Erin Coates and Nici Cumpston OAM. Photo: Sam Roberts The Hon Andrea Michaels, Minister for Arts, Vincent Namatjira OAM, Ida Sophia, Rhana Devenport and Kate Bohunnis. Photo: Sam Roberts Ramsay Art Prize judges: Aaron Seeto, Erin Coates, and Nici Cumpston OAM. Photo: Sam Roberts
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Grant Highlights: Arts Guildhouse and Popeye Ramsay Floating Art Commission: Good Job In February 2023, for the first time in its 88-year history, one of Adelaide’s iconic Popeye boats became a floating work of art, receiving a unique artistic and lighting makeover. South Australian artist Carly Snoswell was commissioned to create the artwork in celebration of the 100th anniversary of James Ramsay’s birth. Her work, titled Good Job, floats proudly on the River Torrens (Karrawirra Parri) and features colour, sequins, stars and lighting. The Foundation was looking for a unique way to celebrate the anniversary while providing a significant opportunity for a local artist to engage South Australians and visitors in an inspiring artistic experience. Guildhouse facilitated the artist commission process, which saw five artists invited to submit proposals. The Ramsay Floating Art Commission celebrates the special relationship James and Diana had with South Australia and the visual and performing arts throughout their lives. James and Diana were avid supporters of the arts community and of South Australia in general, and many South Australians have their own connection or memory of the iconic Popeye.
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Carly's floating artwork, Good Job, is a celebration of simple daily pleasures and accomplishments, basking in the nostalgia of the iconic Popeye boat. The work features gold stars, a symbol of a job well done, epitomising the small achievements in people’s lives and the happy moments, turning those tiny glimmers into giant wins. Carly worked in consultation with Kaurna and Narungga man Jack Buckskin to realise the artwork’s references to Kaurna language and culture. She said stars held significant meaning to Kaurna people. The river, a mirror of the Milky Way, sparkles with reflected stars in the natural landscape. 'Marngumarngu', or 'speckled', highlights the many circles of the stars, the glimmering reflection of the water and the sequins, which bring the artwork together. This striking visual artwork showcases the new Popeye, which is unabashedly proud and joyous on the River Torrens. Carly said working on the project, focusing on celebration and joy was very special. ‘It's a privilege to be given the opportunity to explore my work in this way, which I would not have been able to do without the support of this project... Being able to realise my work in such a large-scale, high-profile way is something I've always dreamt of.’
Grant Highlights: Arts Adelaide Fringe Arts Industry Collaboration Project To aid a robust arts sector in South Australia, the Foundation supported Adelaide Fringe to pilot an Arts Industry Collaborations project. The collaborations enabled the Adelaide Fringe to nurture and increase connectivity between South Australian small-tomedium arts organisations and festivals.
Many of the projects delivered a public facing outcome (eg exhibition or performance) for organisations that had not previously been a part of the Adelaide Fringe.
The project allows organisations and artists to share resources with the Adelaide Fringe to build new audiences, increase contact with experienced practitioners, and create new development and employment opportunities in support of sustainable creative careers that keep artists in South Australia. The pilot project collaborated with 13 art organisations on 20 different projects, including artist residencies, mentorships, capacity-building initiatives, increased employment opportunities and dedicated venue spaces for multicultural communities.
Helpmann Academy Creative Investment Fellowships The Foundation supports Helpmann Academy to present up to five Creative Investment Fellowships each year. The Creative Investment Fellowships assist emerging creatives with ambitious projects and professional development programs to transform their practice and provide a launchpad for their careers.
The Foundation also supports Helpmann Academy with an in-kind office space in Adelaide.
Each fellowship aims to fund significant opportunities tailored specifically to individual artists or collectives who can then pursue customised professional development programs, larger-scale projects, or a combination of both. The self-directed programs may encompass a range of activities, such as engaging in residencies, specialised training, participating in long-term workshops, or securing internships with recognised institutions or professional practitioners. Left: Artist Carly Snoswell with Good Job, on the Popeye. Photos: Sam Roberts Top right: Signal A Theatrical Mixtape (ActNow Theatre) Photo: Sam Wannan. Base right: Mark Curtis and the Flannelettes. Photo supplied.
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Grant Highlights: Arts Arts in Education In line with our focus on accessibility to the arts, the Foundation supports a number of organisations that offer young people the opportunity to engage with art. These organisations deliver workshops, performances, STEMthemed arts, and trips to the theatre for children from Port Lincoln to Mount Gambier and everywhere in between. Here we detail some organisations we support, and the work they are doing in schools and for students. The Art Gallery of South Australia has a range of programs for young people, including the Foundationsupported Start and Studio programs. Start at the Gallery is an exciting introduction to art for children aged three to 12 and their families. Held on the first Sunday of every month, Start is a free, family-fun day that includes art activities, tours, live performances and entertainment. Each monthly event is themed around current exhibitions or the general collection, and there is an annual START art prize. The Studio is the Gallery’s free, hands-on activities space for art lovers of all ages. With a range of creative and art-focused activities on offer, each iteration of The Studio is themed to current exhibitions or curated by of-the-moment artists. Students and families can draw, paint, weave, sculpt and more in this creative and dynamic space. In 2023 it marked the ten-year anniversary of The Studio, a project which Diana Ramsay was proud to be a part of from inception. Adelaide Youth Orchestras provides world-class development programs and career pathways for South Australia’s brightest young emerging musicians. It offers professional music pathways for young musicians, as well as school incursions and concert programs, which enable ensembles to present interactive concerts and workshops in schools and concert halls to inspire over 3000 students per year to engage with music. Patch Theatre Company has been making professional theatre for children from four to eight years old and their families since 1972. Patch Theatre has produced over 100 unique works and provides inspirational and design-rich theatre experiences to over 40,000 children each year. The regional touring program in South Australia allows Patch to reach new audiences, often with their very first theatre experience.
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Grant Highlights: Arts Adelaide Festival Centre is South Australia’s principal performing arts venue, welcoming more than one million people of all ages, experiences and cultures into its theatres, restaurants and gallery spaces each year. Its Arts for All Program gives school students, often with socioeconomic disadvantage, the opportunity to experience hands-on arts programs. The program provides the opportunity to have performers visit schools and work with students through the Songlines project: a reconciliation program, which also offers a First Nations artist mentorship.
The Adelaide Film Festival is South Australia’s annual film festival, raising the profile of arts and screen culture in South Australia. AFF Youth is a program designed to directly engage South Australian students with the creative industries as learners, makers, creators, and as engaged audiences. Activities include a screening program, a Creative Industries Day and Expo, and industry sessions and workshops.
Adelaide Festival is celebrated each March, and audiences delight in an outstanding mix of internationally acclaimed theatre productions, an array of world-class musicians, dance pieces, renowned writers and striking visual artists. Festival Connect is an inclusive equity program that covers the cost of transport to Festival performances for high school students in South Australia. The program also subsidises both transport and accommodation for remote and regional students who would otherwise be unable to attend. The Australian Ballet is Australia’s national ballet company, and one of the world’s premier ballet companies, having delivered extraordinary performances for over 60 years across Australia. The STEAMDANCE program uses a dance-education approach to learning about STEAM subjects: science, technology, engineering, arts and maths. Students are inspired to use movement as a fraction, choreography to create patterns, calculate the angle of an arabesque or how you might balance weight when you lift a partner. This program tours metro and regional South Australia with the Foundation’s support. Restless Dance Theatre is Australia’s leading creator of dance theatre by dancers with and without disability. Restless Dance brings artists with diverse minds, bodies and imaginations together to create contemporary dance theatre from everyday lived experiences. Restless Dance Theatre is a place where diversity is celebrated, and all artists thrive creatively. Its Education Outreach Program, delivered to South Australian schools, consists of workshops that introduce participants to the ‘Restless Dance Theatre Method’, which combines physical techniques and contemporary dance.
Left, top to bottom: START art prize awards. Photo: Sam Roberts. The Studio at AGSA. Photo supplied. Adelaide Youth Orchestras. Photo: Skye Jeffries. Patch Theatre's SPARK. Photo: Roy VanDerVegt and Nicole McKenzie Right, top to bottom: Opening Night at the 2023 Adelaide Festival. Photo: Andrew Beveridge. Airplay at the 2023 Adelaide Festival. Photo: Roy VanDerVegt. Adelaide Film Festival 2022_Embrace Kids cast with Mat Kesting and Taryn Brumfitt. Photo: Naomi Jellicoe and Victoria Cnotek. Adelaide Festival Centre's Songlines. Photo supplied.
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Grant Highlights: Health University of South Australia ifarmwell.com.au Ifarmwell is a free resource designed to encourage farmers to embrace life and overcome everyday challenges, regardless of their circumstances. Its mission is to equip farmers with tools that reduce the negative impact that stressful situations have on their lives, so they have more time and energy to focus on the things that make them happy, and ensure they can focus on their farming business. The Foundation has supported ifarmwell to increase awareness and engagement with the program, as well as developing a new module for fire-affected farmers. A/Prof Gunn was awarded the Farmer of the Year Award for Excellence in Agricultural Research by ABC Rural/ Kondinin Group in 2022.
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute Bioinformatics Team SAHMRI is South Australia’s flagship independent health and medical research institute, existing to deliver better, more equitable health care through four major research themes: Aboriginal health equity, lifelong health, precision cancer medicine, and women and kids. The Foundation supports the Bioinformatics team at SAHMRI, who work across Universities, SAHMRI and the South Australian Genomics Centre. Bioinformatics aids precision medicine by analysing data from genome sequencing. The ability to analyse and interpret ‘big data’ from genome sequencing is crucial for the advancement of disease research and clinical decision-making; over 700 leukaemia patients have been screened through the facility in the last two years, of which nearly 300 have had genomic analysis. 12
In 2020, after five years of support, the Ramsay Fellow of Bioinformatics was established. Dr Paul Wang is the current recipient, appointed in June 2023.
Grant Highlights: Health Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation Youth Suicide Prevention Program In partnership with the Breakthrough Mental Health Research Foundation, the Foundation has supported Advanced Clinician and Clinical Psychologist Susan Num to deliver group therapy programs for young people and their families. Aimed at people aged 16 to 24 who have engaged in or are at serious risk of self-harm, these group programs aim to increase skills in mindfulness, improve tolerance of difficult situations and emotional pain, and focus on mood management and strengthening family and other relationships.
After a successful three-year pilot project, the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network has formally adopted the family program into their funded services. For the Foundation, the progression from providing seed funding, to impact reporting and the project now being adopted by government is a great success story. The family group therapy program is a six-month program where young people and their family member attend group therapy each week and learn dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) skills.
We have incorporated mindfulness in our home exercises…we are now half way through the program, we got home from the therapy and were excited to share with other family members…group is a safe place.
- Parent, group participant
It’s a second language now, when I can’t find the words, it helps express how I feel to Mum and Dad. - Group participant
Left: Kate Gunn, ifarmwell. Ramsay Bioinformatics Fellow Dr Paul Wang with Kerry de Lorme, Kiah Elsworthy and Dr Sen Wang at SAHMRI. Photos supplied. Right: DBT handbook. Youth group therapy facilitators. Photos supplied. 13
Grant Highlights: Youth Programs Grandcarers SA Village Program Grandcarers SA is a South Australian organisation working to provide comprehensive support to grandcarers through financial assistance, personal support, information provision, and advocacy. It aims to empower grandcarers to achieve positive outcomes for themselves and the children in their care. Grandcarers and kinship carers are often caring for young people due to an emergency or circumstances out of their control, and Grandcarers SA works with them to ensure both the carers and young people are supported. The Village Program was developed to enable carer advocates to provide carers with a safe space to meet in their local area, giving them the opportunity to connect, exchange ideas and information, and access familiar, more accessible services. Grandcarers SA has clients spread across South Australia, many in regional locations, who are well supported by the Village Program.
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In 2023, with matched funding from CMV Foundation, the Foundation was able to assist Grandcarers SA in the purchase of a new Toyota RAV4, which will allow them to deliver their programs far and wide in South Australia.
Grant Highlights: Youth Programs Youth Opportunities Project Prosper Youth Opportunities works in partnership with schools and the community to develop the personal leadership skills of young people. Its programs provide young people with the enterprise skills they need for future education and employment success, along with tools to increase confidence, self-worth, and motivation, helping them to build the optimism and resilience to overcome adversity throughout their lives. The Foundation has supported Youth Opportunities to deepen engagement with graduates of its core 10week program, by offering additional support and opportunities for a further two years. This includes workshops, leadership opportunities, program development and specialised mentorship and support. Over the three-year pilot period, 240 workshops were delivered to 2522 graduates, 94% of who reported they learnt new skills that can help with further education or employment.
batyr Australia batyr@school Batyr, meaning ‘hero’, is named after the famous talking elephant in Kazakhstan, and ‘exists to give a voice to the elephant in the room – mental health’. Batyr believes that every young person in Australia should feel equipped and empowered to take charge of their mental health and wellbeing. By training a generation of young people with the tools, education and support systems to navigate challenging times, they can thrive and grow into independent, confident and happy adults. The Foundation has supported batyr since 2021 in growing its programs across South Australia, where it is currently reaching over 2200 students each year. Program attendees have reported increased helpseeking behaviours and a reduction in self-stigma as a result of the program. Left: Grandcarers SA, winners of the DHS Andamooka Community Project Award for Grandcarers SA Village Program, May 2023. Photos supplied. Right: Youth Opportunties participants. Photo supplied. batyr Australia community forum. Photo supplied.
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Grant Highlights: Capacity Grants Adelaide Fringe Festival Leaders Institute of South Australia Community Fund The Governor’s Leadership Foundation Program The Governor’s Leadership Foundation Program is a 10month program focused on maximising an individual’s outward impact throughout their career. Through immersive experiences alongside fellow participants from diverse backgrounds, participants develop the leadership knowledge, lasting connections and deep awareness essential to effect genuine and widespread positive change. To date, the Foundation is proud to have supported many professional development opportunities for South Australian not-for-profit leaders who continue to apply these valuable learnings for the benefit of the charitable sector.
Connecting Leaders in Youth and Wellbeing In February 2022, the Foundation convened a workshop for leaders of our grant recipient organisations working with young people and in the mental wellbeing space. Facilitated by Paul Mayers, the purpose of the event was to deepen the understanding we have of the issues that young people are facing, our partners and the work they do, and to facilitate connections between leaders.
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While the Foundation provides financial support, we are conscious that our partner organisations are the experts in their fields, in this case, delivering programs directly to young people in South Australia. To meet with the leaders of these organisations in an informal setting was truly valuable, and we gained further knowledge of their goals, programs and challenges. Many of our attendees have now connected further as a result of the workshop.
Our Partners Thank you to our partner organisations from 2021–2023.
Left, top: Her Excellency the Honourable Frances Adamson AC, Governor of South Australia; Leigh Robb (JDR Foundation Scholarship Recipient 2022); Todd Roberts. Photo: Adrienne Worrell JDRF youth focus group. Photo supplied.
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Foundation Partner Celebration
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Foundation Partner Celebration
Left, top to bottom: Panel discussion: Abigail Henderson, Susan Num, Heather Croall, Paul Mayers. Nick Ross, Susan Num, Heather Croall, Abigail Henderson, Kerry de Lorme. Susan Num, Kirsty Roderick, Kate Gunn. Paul Mayers. Right, clockwise from top left: Rhana Devenport, Anthea Reeves, Richard Jasek. Kerry de Lorme, Paul Mayers, Gillian Mercer, Richard Jasek, Kiah Elsworthy. David Wark, Tim Edwards, Megan Edwards, Fred Heidt. Julian Hobba, Alison Beare, Eira Swaine. Michelle Ryan, Geoff Cobham. Melissa Yule, Jo Carrick. Jen Duncan, Janet Leske. Photos: Matt Byrne
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Our People The members of the James and Diana Ramsay Foundation's Board each bring a wealth of experience from their relevant professional fields. The Board has placed great importance on good corporate governance practises, which it believes is vital to the Foundation's wellbeing.
Chair
Executive Director
Directors
Grants Manager
Nicholas Ross
Timothy Edwards Richard Jasek Melissa Yule
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Kerry de Lorme Kiah Elsworthy
Acknowledgement of Country We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land where we work and live. We pay our respects to, and celebrate the stories, culture and traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders of all communities who also work and live on this land.
James and Diana Ramsay Foundation Board and Staff. L-R: Nicholas Ross, Kerry de Lorme, Melissa Yule, Kiah Elsworthy, Tim Edwards, Richard Jasek Photo: Matt Byrne
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