Local money. Local causes. Going back where it came from.

A stallholder fee at the Chamber managed market, a donation from a business down the road, a few hundred dollars raised at a Chamber event — on their own these might not seem like much.  Pool them together and put it in the hands of the people already doing the work, though, and they go a long way.

That’s the motivation behind the Whitsundays Chamber Community Fund. 

We offer grants of up to $5,000 to the not-for-profits, community groups, and volunteer organisations that make this region a place people want to live, work and visit.

Most of what makes the Whitsundays such a great place to live isn’t run by business at all.

It’s powered by volunteers and small community committees, often doing incredible work with very limited budgets. So we’ve built a way to help get more money into their hands: a share of stallholder fees from the Airlie Beach Cruise Ship Markets and Proserpine Community Markets, donations from local businesses, and funds raised through Chamber events — all pooled together and distributed as grants of up to $5,000.