JFA Noske Christmas Fund

The JFA Noske Christmas Fund offers small grants to support adults on a low income with an eligible disability to enjoy the festive season.

These grants can help with the cost of:

Christmas gifts for loved ones.
Food for Christmas celebrations.
Travel related to Christmas.
Clothing for the festive season.

The fund was established in 2009 in memory of the late Mr Noske, who generously set aside funds to help share the joy of Christmas with others.

Application guidelines

Applications for the JFA Noske Christmas Fund are currently open and will close 12pm on Monday 28 September, 2026.

Further information

Applications for the 2026 NOSKE Christmas Fund are now open.

Read our Frequently Asked Questions for more information about this grant, including eligibility criteria.

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Frequently Asked Questions

To be eligible for our Noske Christmas Fund grants you must:

Be over 18 years of age
Live in South Australia
Be on a low income (e.g., receiving a Disability Support Pension or equivalent)
Have one of the following:
- An acquired brain injury
- A degenerative neurological condition
- A physical disability that:
  - Impacts mobility, requiring day-to-day support (e.g., personal care, mobility aids, assistive technology)
  - Is lifelong, either from birth, early childhood, or resulting from an accident or certain illnesses

The funds for our small grant programs were originally connected to Julia Farr Services. This means, the grants are limited to supporting the types of disabilities experienced by the former residents of Julia Farr Services. JFA Purple Orange is legally required to ensure grants are distributed to individuals who live with a physical disability that meets the eligibility criteria.

The nature of eligible physical disabilities is limited to:

A physical disability that impacts your mobility so that you have day-to-day support needs, for example for personal care, mobility aids (such as a wheelchair) or supports or assistive technology in your home. This will be a lifelong physical disability either from birth, early childhood or resulting from an accident or certain types of illnesses.

Because of the restrictions on the use of the funds, the following disabilities are not eligible: disability caused by chronic health conditions, age-related conditions (including arthritis and dementia), intellectual disability, mental illness, or autism or ADHD.

Our Noske Christmas Fund grants support you to cover some of your Christmas expenses. This can include:

Christmas gifts for loved ones
Food for Christmas celebrations
Travel costs linked to Christmas
Clothing linked to Christmas

We do not fund costs that are not linked to Christmas celebrations.

We do not fund alcohol or other drugs.

If the item you want to purchase costs more than the maximum value of the grant of $150, you will need to pay the difference yourself, or secure the extra money from elsewhere.

You can apply for more than one grant, but we will only award one grant per person, per year. If you apply for more than one grant at a time, we will only consider one application.

Yes – but please don’t assume that you will receive a grant just because we have given you a grant before. If we receive more applications than we can support we will not be able to fund all eligible applications.

Our team will review your application to make sure it is complete, you are eligible for funding and your request is for costs related to Christmas that we can fund under this program.

If we have more eligible applications than we can fund, we will select successful applications through a lottery.

Applications generally close at the end of September. Grant applicants are contacted by the end of November to be advised if they have been successful or not.

These timelines are subject to change.

We ask you to provide bank details in your application form. If you are awarded a grant, we will pay the grant direct into your bank account.

If your finances are managed by the Public Trustee or by Equity Trustees, please provide these details on your application. If you are successful, we will make the grant payment to the Trustee account.

Please contact us as soon as possible and give us your new bank details. You can contact us at grants@juliafarr.org.au or by calling our office on 08 8373 8388.

We try to be flexible, but we cannot promise that we will be able to consider late applications.

Please contact us at grants@juliafarr.org.au or by calling our office on 08 8373 8388. We will let you know whether we are able to consider a late application. This will depend on how late your application is and whether we have already received more applications than we can support.