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.
Ardoch is a children’s education charity focused on improving educational outcomes for children and young people in communities facing disadvantage.
To support children and young people from disadvantaged communities to engage in learning and believe in a future of possibilities.
Every child’s potential is realised through full participation in education.
Thanks to you, our wonderful donors and partners, over the past year Ardoch has supported more children and young people living in disadvantaged communities than ever before. In 2019, we partnered with 135 early years centres, primary and secondary schools, mobilised 1,773 volunteers, delivered over 30,585 program participations and helped improve educational outcomes for 18,815……
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……
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……
