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CategoryA collection of our favourite Awesome Foundation funded projects from Newcastle and around the world. Awesome Newcastle is a chapter of The Awesome Foundation. The Awesome Foundation was created in 2009 and has provided over $2.2m in grants via 114 chapters in 26 countries.
March winner update – Newcastle Art Prize
Newcastle Art Prize took home the title of Awesome Newcastle Winner and the $1,000 cash in March this year.
At our March event, Gwendolin Lewis told our bo..
June 2016 Winner – Adopt a Singer
June’s Awesome Newcastle took place last Thursday behind the big blue doors at The Village of Useful. Finalists and board members gathered once again to choos..
Awesome Newcastle May Winner – To The Edge High Performance Centre
Our May Awesome Newcastle took place last Thursday night at the heavenly Wine Selectors Headquarters in Honeysuckle. All gathered in the private tasting room ..
Hunting for Awesomeness
We’re on the search for something awesome. Not something ‘ok’, cool, or just interesting enough to get me away from Facebook for 30 seconds. We’re on the hunt..
February winner OneWave update!
Since their February Awesome Newcastle win, OneWave have had a huge program re-vamp and are going great guns! For those who do not know about OneWave, it is a..
Love wins over cats and views at Awesome Newcastle!
Last night at The Edwards on Parry Street, the Awesome Newcastle crew gathered for the April event. For the first time ever, Awesome Newcastle had all female ..
Awesome show from our November winner!
James Chapman from Tantrum Theatre wants to use theatre to bring attention to male mental illness in Newcastle.
Let us take you back to a scorching night ..
October winners update us on Awesome progress
Youth Street is a community group that provide a safe hangout space for youth aged 6-18 where they can stay out of trouble by playing sport, doing art and mak..
Two Permanent Board Positions Open
Last year we created Awesome Newcastle, a local chapter of the global Awesome Foundation. In the first six months we’ve helped community projects with $6,000 ..
Say hola! to our March grant winner, Newcastle Art Prize
Awesome Newcastle’s March gathering was last Thursday evening at Casa de Loco, in the east end. Our regular board, guest board members and nervous but determi..