Where you grow up and your family’s resources can strongly influence your access to critical educational opportunities and services from early childhood through to adulthood.
Ardoch seeks to change this.
Who we are
Ardoch is a children’s education charity focused on improving educational outcomes for children and young people in communities facing disadvantage.
Our purpose
To support children and young people from disadvantaged communities to engage in learning and believe in a future of possibilities.
Our vision
Every child’s potential is realised through full participation in education.
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Latest news
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CEO Autumn Message
Life is difficult for many people right now and children in Australia, indeed around the world, are beginning to experience mass disruption to their education, with the potential of more to come. However, life for many of the children and young people that Ardoch support has always been difficult, and their education disrupted long before……
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Meeting Andy Griffiths
The morning of March 5 was particularly wet in the city of Melbourne, but no amount of rain was about to dampen the enthusiasm of 170 children from four Ardoch partner schools visiting the State Library that day. In the world of Australian Children’s books, author Andy Griffiths has superstar status. There was no mistaking……
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Ardoch’s New STEM School Readiness Program
More than 1800 kindergarten children across Dandenong, Melbourne’s South East, Melbourne’s Western suburbs, and Geelong received an early education boost in late 2019 through Ardoch’s innovative new STEM school readiness program, and we are pleased to report on a highly successful debut program. Ardoch’s new STEM (science, technology, engineering & maths) based program assists children……