The Connellan Airways Trust is pleased to announce the outcomes of Round 2 of our 2026 General Grants program.

Thirteen grants totalling $50,612 have been approved, eight to organisations and five to individuals, supporting education and health access in remote and very remote communities across the Northern Territory, Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales.

We received 42 applications this round, seeking a combined $318,333. Every application was read closely, and the assessment committee had genuinely difficult decisions to make. Our thanks to everyone who applied.

Grants to organisations.

Alice Springs School of the Air (Alice Springs, NT) — $10,000
Interstate excursion to Melbourne for Year 5 to Year 9 students, extending learning beyond the home classroom and reducing out-of-pocket costs for families.

Carnarvon School of the Air P&C Association (Lyndon, WA) — $7,700
Creating connection from beyond the home classroom — supporting 11 students from Years 4 to 6, travelling from across the Gascoyne and Pilbara, to attend a shared program in Canberra.

Julia Creek Primary P&C Association (Julia Creek, QLD) — $5,000
A curriculum-linked Canberra camp for Year 5 and 6 students from remote North West Queensland.

Meekatharra School of the Air (WA) — $5,000
2026 Canberra Camp for 11 students, two staff and two parent volunteers, travelling from remote Western Australia for a week of civics, history and culture.

Louth Isolated Children's and Parents' Association (Louth, NSW) — $5,000
Bush Kids Swim Camp — an intensive week of accredited swimming lessons in Dubbo for children whose nearest learn-to-swim provider is a 400km round trip. Thirty-five children are registered for 2026.

Theatre Kimberley (Broome, WA) — $5,000
Dragonfly Outreach: Derby — a 10-day circus arts program delivered to 120 students at Holy Rosary School, culminating in a performance for the whole community.

Galiwin'ku Women's Space Aboriginal Corporation (Galiwin'ku, NT) — $2,520
Waterlilly – Dhatam — three community-led women's wellbeing and primary prevention workshops, reaching around 50 women.

Mungindi Hospital Auxiliary (Mungindi, QLD) — $1,500
Continuing a volunteer-run community bus service that gets elderly residents to shopping, services and social activities in Moree and Goondiwindi.

Grants to individuals.

Minnie Zischke (Longreach, QLD) — $2,711
Travel costs for professional placements in her Bachelor of Education (Primary), studied online while working as a teacher aide. Her placements require a 1,478km journey.

Elke Robertson (Central West QLD) — $2,500
Travel costs for the final year of an Agribusiness qualification at Marcus Oldham College in Geelong.

Jessie Hayson (Broome, WA) — $2,000
Accredited training in asbestos air monitoring and clearance inspections, a qualification currently held by no one in the Kimberley, requiring assessors to be flown 2,300km from Perth.

Katy Hayes — $1,231
Flights home for a son at boarding school 1,000km away, so he can spend the Term 3 holidays with family and return in time for Term 4.

What this round tells us.

Four of our eight organisational grants went to schools of distance education and remote P&C associations funding students to travel to Canberra, to Melbourne, and to swimming pools. Another three grants funded individuals travelling for study, placement or training. The single most common barrier our applicants described this round was not the absence of a program, but the distance and cost of reaching one.

Round 3 opens 1 September. Guidelines and application details are available on our website.