Make a Tax-Deductible Donation

Your gift funds tutoring, mentoring, school essentials and the steady presence that keeps a young person in their education. It also tells them something they may not hear often enough: that their future matters.

A Start in Life has stood beside students facing financial hardship since 1923. We’re a small, focused team, so your support reaches students quickly and is shaped around what each one needs.

Every donation of $2 or more is tax-deductible, and you’ll receive a receipt for your records.

Your gift funds tutoring, mentoring, school essentials and the steady presence that keeps a young person in their education. It also tells them something they may not hear often enough: that their future matters.

A Start in Life has stood beside students facing financial hardship since 1923. We’re a small, focused team, so your support reaches students quickly and is shaped around what each one needs.

Every donation of $2 or more is tax-deductible, and you’ll receive a receipt for your records.

A student supported by donations to A Start in Life

Giving you can trust

73%

goes direct to students

$2+

gifts are tax deductible

1923

supporting students since

DGR1

ACNC-registered charity

Not every child arrives at school on equal footing. In Australia, students from low-income families are, on average, two to three years behind their more advantaged peers by the time they reach Year 9, according to the Grattan Institute (2020). That gap doesn’t close on its own. It takes real, consistent, targeted support.

Behind every figure below is a real student. A kid who has never been on a camp. A teenager who finally gets one-on-one time with a mentor who sees their potential.