Canon Oceania has announced the winners of its 2025 Grants Program, a cornerstone of its long-term community engagement strategy, which provides funding and technology to grassroots organisations.


The winners of the Canon Oceania’s 2025 Grants Program: (L-R Top) Medical Pantry, Cockburn Integrated Health; (L-R Bottom) Ambulance Wish WA, Farrer Primary School. (Source: Canon.)

Since its inception 19 years ago, and guided by Canon’s Kyosei philosophy of living and working together for the common good, the Canon Grants Program has worked to ensure these organisations do not go unseen. To help this year’s winners amplify their work and expand their impact, Canon is awarding each organisation $5,000 in funding and technology, across the categories of Community, Education, Environment, and First Nations. This year’s winners are:
Community: Ambulance Wish Western Australia
For those in their final days, it is often the little things that mean the most. Ambulance Wish Western Australia was created to fulfil these simple, final wishes. Run by a dedicated team of medically trained volunteers, Ambulance Wish provides the specialist transport and care needed to bring a person home one last time, to let them feel the ocean breeze, to attend a child’s wedding, or to say goodbye to a beloved family pet. By providing a moment of joy, Ambulance Wish helps clients enjoy a final, lasting memory for families to cherish. The grant will provide a camera for each of the charity’s three ambulances, ensuring these irreplaceable stories are captured with the care they deserve.
Environment: Medical Pantry
Medical Pantry was born from two interconnected problems: the immense waste in the healthcare system and the lack of medical access in vulnerable communities. The not-for-profit rescues surplus medical supplies and redistributes them, having already saved over 15,000 tonnes of equipment from landfill since 2021. The grant will now fund their ‘Plastic Map’ initiative. Using a Canon camera, volunteers will photograph and document over 500 types of medical plastics, creating an open-source visual map to expose the true scale of the waste problem and advocate to manufacturers and policymakers for change.
First Nations: Cockburn Integrated Health
Middle ear disease disproportionately affects Aboriginal children, with one in two impacted by their first birthday, causing hearing loss that has a lifelong effect on development and education. Cockburn Integrated Health provides a community-led service to close this gap. In partnership with local health services and universities, their Aboriginal Ear Health Program provides free ENT, audiology, and speech pathology services to over 400 children a year. Canon’s grant will provide cameras and printers to create therapy resources and capture the high-quality visual evidence needed to demonstrate the impact of their work.
Education: Farrer Primary School
Farrer Primary School is embedding local Indigenous history into the heart of its identity by creating a new school song in the Ngunnawal language. To bring this commitment to life, the school is partnering with composer Dan Walker and local Ngunnawal Elder Tyronne Bell. This project is about more than music; it is about giving students a living connection to local culture and empowering them to grow in their identity and confidence. The grant will provide a camera and microphone to document the entire creative process, capturing the workshops, interviews, and rehearsals to create a lasting cultural resource for the whole community.

More information about Canon Oceania’s 2025 Grants Program, including current and previous winners, is available on Canon’s website at: https://www.canon.com.au/about-canon/community/grants