🚨 Last chance to make a difference! 🚨

Today is the FINAL day to donate to the Boot Bash! You can support rural and regional students on their education pathway with every dollar helping provide essential funding for accommodation, groceries, and study supplies—giving these students a fair go at further education.

Donate now and be part of the impact! Visit the link in our bio 💙🎓#cefbootbash

The countryeducationfoundation and Galah are good friends. We`ve supported each other for a few years now, and so when they agreed to be our official charity partner for the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Prize, well, we were thrilled.

Galah and CEF`s mission is ultimately very similar: to make a positive contribution towards more vibrant and thriving regional communities.

Last year, the CEF awarded over 700 individual grants and scholarships to young people from across regional Australia, supporting them in accessing education in so many different ways. From grants to help young people relocate for study, complete compulsory work placements, start an apprenticeship or traineeship or buy a laptop, the CEF and their network of local foundations work unbelievably hard to ensure they support as many young people as possible achieve their goals.

If you`re coming along to our prize party at neramuseum on Friday 2 May, you might even meet a CEF student and hear their story for yourself, and you will definitely have the opportunity to hear about the incredible impact CEF has on hundreds of young people across regional Australia every year.

Image: The Roo by Rachel Mounsey, a finalist in the 2025 Galah Regional Photography Awards. rachel_mounsey_

#galahregionalphotographyprize #galahpress

We are thrilled to welcome @johnxxiiicollege_anu to the family - our first accommodation partner in Canberra!

From 2026, we will be offering two 50% accommodation scholarships for CEF students who have a place at John`s and ensures that more rural and regional students can access quality accommodation, financial support and a welcoming college community as they navigate university life.

You can read more about this exciting new partnership in our link in bio.

👢 It’s time to step up! Boot Bash is your chance to show your support of rural and regional youth.

If you haven`t yet, donate to the Boot Bash campaign to help us raise awareness and ensure rural and regional youth have a fair go at further education.

Donate by 31st March at www.cefbootbash.org.au #cefbootbash

There`s still time to donate to our Boot Bash campaign!

Donate before 31st March to help provide CEF students with increased direct financial assistance and give education inequity the boot!

Visit cefbootbash.org.au to make a donation today and give rural and regional students a fair go at further education.

#cefbootbash

Despite the challenges, 72% of CEF students hope to return to regional communities after their studies. Your support today helps them bring skills, knowledge, and opportunities back home.

1 week left to donate and to invest in a students future! 👢💙.

To find out more and donate visit cefbootbash.org.au #CEFBootBash

🎓 Almost half (48%) of metropolitan students attain a Certificate IV or above, compared to just 34% in regional areas.

The financial strain rural and regional students experience is real—but we can help level the playing field!

Visit cefbootbash.org.au and donate by 31st March to show your support of rural and regional youth. 👢💙
#cefbootbash

We love seeing our volunteers and their students out and about!

CEF Orange & Districts students, Lily and Alex, joined their buddy, Lyndall, at the Order of Australia Member, Central West NSW group at their meeting on Sunday. Lily and Alex answered questions about how CEF supports them, as students from regional areas, to engage in post school education. They mentioned the support they receive from CEF financially, as well as the emotional and practical help they receive from the CEF Orange & Districts’ buddy system.

Both students are enrolled at Charles Sturt University Bathurst with Lily in her first year of a Bachelor of Nursing and Alex in his second year of Bachelor of Education (K-12) PDHPE. Their CEF grants help pay for study resources and equipment. Most importantly, their funding also assists with students’ travel, accommodation and living expenses, all of which are significantly higher than what their metropolitan peers encounter.

We`re pleased to report that the OAM group were impressed by the conversations had with these two outstanding students!

Photo: (L to R) David North, Director of Order of Australia Association NSW, Alex, Lyndall Harrison and Lily.

📢 Did you know? 3 in 4 CEF supported students must leave home to pursue further education? Yet, only 1 in 5 receive financial support from their families.

The cost of relocation is a major barrier—but together, we can help!

💪 Visit cefbootbash.org.au and donate by 31st March to make a difference #cefbootbash

Thanks to her grants from CEF Grenfell, Heather was able to get a laptop, textbooks, stationery, and even help with accommodation costs, giving her the support she needed to focus on her studies. But our commitment goes beyond financial aid; it’s about a whole community standing behind every student!

Funds raised through the #cefbootbash will provide CEF students with increased direct financial support—helping to kick education inequity to the curb! 🎓

You can support the students by donating until 31st March. Visit cefbootbash.org.au

We’re throwing a party in Armidale, NSW on Friday, 2 May, at neramuseum , and you’re invited. 

Help us celebrate the finalists and winners of the Galah Regional Photography Prize at the 2025 exhibition party. 

Tickets now available via the link in our profile. Please share this invitation with your friends far and wide and help us spread the word.

There’ll be music, dancing and the best of food and drinks – all included as part of the $90 ticket.

Friday 2 May 5-10pm. Winners will be announced at 6.30pm.

I firmly believe that vibrant, diverse communities are key to making regional Australia strong and an effective way to bump up the vibrancy is to celebrate and support artists who call regional Australia home.

We have an incredible collection of 42 images from photographers from Tom Price, to Lismore, to Bendigo. All we need is you to help us grow this event into one of Australia’s most prestigious prizes that can have a meaningful impact on the careers of photographers living in regional Australia.

Ticket includes:

* Drinks: a welcome cocktail, followed by wine, beer and non-alcoholic shrubs thanks to huskrum, theweldersdog_armidale and chalouwines .
* Music by the theversaceboys. Bring your dancing shoes.
* A delicious standing dinner, canapé style by Laura Swan swanfinefoods with baking and shrubs by cathy.e.armstrong.
* Charity Partner countryeducationfoundation

The exhibition will be on display at NERAM for eight weeks from 11 April - 8 June 2025. Entry is free (with the exception of the party night) during the gallery’s opening hours.

NERAM Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm *Closed Mondays, Good Friday, Easter Sunday

Thank you to our partners visitarmidale countryeducationfoundation goodweekendmag youfoundreggie ausculturalfund nerammuseum
#neramart #nerammuseum #NERAM #visitarmidale #whatsonarmidale #galahregionalphotographyprize #galahpress

"The Bush is Calling" by Angela Stirling.