The FKG Group
FKG Group provides integrated construction, civil and development services for the property, resources, infrastructure and government sectors across Australia AND support The Lighthouse Toowoomba to enhance the lives of children in our community and improve their literacy skills.
Rockville
State School
The Lighthouse Toowoomba is in a very proud partnership with Rockville State School, providing unique opportunities focused on storytelling, books, and support to the incredibly dedicated team of stafff.
Adapt Mentorship
Adapt (Young Bruthas mentorship) is a catalyst of change. We want every young person to feel part of our community, no matter who they are or where they're from. Life can be challenging, we are here to help you see your potential!
Momentum
Mental Health
As strong proponents and advocates of the 5Ways to Wellbeing, Momentum supports the community with innovative and engaging programs, and access to anyone who needs their services. It is a grassroots community organisation. Our collaboration with art events further strengthens the ambitious idea of creating a community where no-one slips through the cracks!
Book Links QLD
Book Links mission is to link people and groups throughout the community with stories and experiences to build literacy and learning, so as to enrich lives. The Lighthouse Toowoomba contributes our vibrant, imaginative and artistic spaces to nurture children, whilst demonstrating we value stories and their creators. We also help them in their endeavour to create events for the community and promote authors, illustrators and storytellers for children and young people.
NCACL
Australia’s literary past, present and future are preserved in the National Centre, through the stories that touched our hearts and stirred our imaginations as children.
It documents and shares the creative process and inspires the next generation
of readers with research collections, exhibitions and outreach activities.
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Emerge
Every day Emerge works with the most vulnerable young people in the Toowoomba community – kids that are left behind, fallen through the cracks, forgotten. A tough cohort of kids that are both resilient and brilliant.
YouBelong
Mort & Co
From humble beginnings, Mort & Co has evolved to become Australia's largest privately-owned beef cattle lot feeding, management and marketing company - and is a major supporter of The Lighthouse Toowoomba. With their generous support, in the first year of operation for TLHT, enough money was raised for 57 workshops - or a years worth of content!
Newtown
Community
Hub
The Community Hubs at Newtown State School and Darling Heights State School, with the insightful management by Ricky Adams, creates a pathway for providing resources (books / author visits / workshops / events) in a timely and effective manner. This, combined with the Harlaxton Community Hub provides access to 1200 of our communities most culturally and linguistically diverse cohort, at the lowest end of the ICSEA scale.
First Nations Arts and Culture Collective
The First Nations Arts and Culture Collective guide and mentor local artists, develop education programs, and bring the cultural richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to the community.
WEYN
Wilsonton Early Years Network
Over 50 educators are part of this network, all focused on the best possible outcomes for Under 5's. WEYN distributes books for The Lighthouse via their Under 5's celebration, and educators regularly source books for their children on a needs basis ensuring books in homes. Communication is via email and monthly meetings.
iNSPIRTEK
A tech company with heart! iNSPIRTEK are working with The Lighthouse team to develop a tech solution for some of the admin associated with organising volunteers and organising workshops. With a focus on mental health and wellbeing, the idea is 'we look out for you so you can be the best you can be for others!'
Motamo
Motamo collaborates with writers, teachers, and workshop presenters from around the globe to create a body of work for each biennale of children's literature in Belgium.
The Lighthouse Toowoomba is a proud member of
The International Alliance of Youth Writing Centres
The Alliance was conceived in the summer of 2018, when about 20 youth writing labs from around the world convened in Amsterdam. The leaders of these centres agreed there was a need to unite under one loose banner, while of course remaining independent. It wouldn't be a burdensome central bureaucracy, but rather an acknowledgement that all share a mission and, wherever possible, work together on international projects to multiply the effect any of our centres could enjoy on our own.