Individual
Support
Your donation to Four Winds will help us continue to enrich and nurture our whole community through the power of music in nature. All amounts, small or big make a difference – Join us!
THE POWER OF YOU
Four Winds has always been a place of transformation. Inspirational music experiences and a deep respect for place, culture and community is in Four Winds’ DNA. A combination of funding helps to: keep concert ticket prices accessible for everyone; enable free music programs for children and aspiring musicians right across the region, support First Nations collaboration and initiatives, and host artist residencies for celebrated musicians to take time out to create and collaborate surrounded by nature.
The Four Winds Foundation, Government grants and partnerships provide up to 70% of the cost of Four Winds programs, and the rest must be raised through donations from individuals.
This is where YOU come in!
2026 end of financial year donations will support Four Winds work to revive the South Coast Music Camp.
Ways to Support
Four Winds invites your support at whatever level you are able to. Every dollar adds up to make a fairer, more cohesive and musically connected community. Here are the ways you can get involved.
Chorus Of Supporters
Whether you’re new to Four Winds or have been part of our community for years, we invite you to join us! Donations can be made as a one-off, or recurring (monthly, quarterly or annual).
Annual contributions up to $1200 will add your voice to our Chorus of Supporters.
Circle Of Friends
The Circle of Friends is a continuation of the community support that created Four Winds over thirty years ago. An annual donation of $1200 or more will connect you to the Circle with invitations to special insider events, to meet musicians and to connect with other like-minded, passionate music-lovers.
The Circle ensures that Four Winds remains a place of creativity, connection, and inspiration for generations to come.
Program Patrons
Become a Super Friend! Annual contributions of $3,000 or more connect you into the Circle of Friends and enable you to direct your support towards one of Four Winds’ core initiatives:
i. Create and Inspire Patrons support music tuition, mentorships, camps and scholarships for talented and enthusiastic young musicians of the south coast region.
ii. Barragga Yangga Patrons support Four Winds wonderful program of cultural celebration led by First Nations curator Cheryl Overton (nee Davison).
iii. Residency Patrons support highly sought-after and well supported residency opportunities for Australian musicians, giving acclaimed and emerging musicians the rare chance to take time away from busy performing schedules to revive, create new work, and collaborate, in pristine natural surrounds.
Ambassadors
Four Winds Ambassadors make a minimum donation of $10,000 per year with a multi-year commitment. Ambassadors are true champions of Four Winds: enabling access to world-class music, unique cultural events, and enrichment through education and participation for the entire south coast region 🙌 !
LEAVE A LASTING LEGACY
If your visits to Four Winds and the transformative experience of music in nature has enriched your life and you would like to ensure it is around for future generations to enjoy as you have, consider making a gift to Four Winds in your Will.
In doing so you will be following the example of one of Four Winds most-loved founders , Neilma Gantner , whose legacy gift helped Four Winds become the place of creativity and inspiration it is today.
For a confidential discussion about including a legacy gift to Four Winds in your Will, contact Development Manager, Georgia Shepherd.
OUR DONORS
We are so grateful for the generous support of our donors, thank you!
Ambassadors
Manuela Darling
Michael Darling
Geoff Steel and Christine Poulton
Anonymous (1)
Barragga Yangga Patrons
Christina Kennedy
The Sutherland Foundation
Hayley and James Baillie
Tony and Sue Morrison
Georgina Ward
Simon Bragg
Four Winds Patrons
Charles Nicoli
Stephen Mills and Helen O’Neil
Leigh Small and William Zappa
Sprogis/Woods Family
Create & Inspire Patrons
Michael and Manuela Darling
Kate Jorgenson and Lynda Napier-Morris
Timothy Pilgrim
Through the power of individual donations (making up almost 25% of our income), Four Winds has become a beacon of regional excellence. We invite you to join us.
Circle of Friends
$1,200+
Don and Veronica Aldridge OAM
Stuart Absalom and Philip Mawer
Sarah Benjamin and Phillip Keir
Martin Booth
Greg Brackenreg and Jennifer Woodhouse
Cox Family
Roger and Pamela Davis
Giles Ellingworth
Raoul de Ferranti and Merilyn Sleigh
Cathy Griff
Rob and Sally Hawkins
Louise Herron AM and Clark Butler
Rhyl Hinwood AM CF and Georgia Shepherd
Michelle Holton
Leslie Loble AM and Frank Muller
Annmaree O’Keefe AM and Christopher Greene
Honor and Tim Northam
Blair Palese and Enrico Coiera
John Pearson and Mark Clark
Ingrid Petts
Anna Piatkowska and Peter Rosenfeldt
David Rogers
Louise Rose and Garry Fry
William Southwood and Margaret Kenny-Levick
The Sutherland Foundation
Anonymous (2)
Chorus of Supporters
$1,000+
Ethinvest
Mumbulla Foundation
The Bega Group
Marisa Giuffre – in memory of Geoffrey Giuffre
$500+
Sheena Boughen OAM and Bill Caldicott
CWA Bermagui
Nancy Futrell
Naino Groen – in memory of Neilma Gantner
Margaret and Peter Janssens
Siân Morgan Hall and Nigel Hall
Janet Nash and Alan Hauserman
Morna Whiting
$250+
Nancy Black
Philip Flood AO and Carole Flood
Catherine Hawkins
Mal and Helen Holmes
Mary Lightfoot
Sue Ludwig
Karen Rudd
Robin Scott-Charlton
Suzanne Simon
Robert Tacheci and Katrina Heding
Bruce Wilson and Cathie Doherty
Anonymous (1)
$100+
Andrew Bell
David and Meg Butler
M Carmody
Joan Cornish – in memory of Paul Payten
Mirabel Fitzgerald
Michael Ebstein
Suzanne Halliday
Angela Keith
Lachlan Kennedy
Katrin Lee
Laurel Lloyd-Jones
Fiona Mills
Seth Molinari
Ken Neilsen
Sheelagh Noonan
Georgia Shepherd
Gay Staurup
Dr Brett Stevenson
Claudia Tasche
Gabrielle Trainor AO
David Tregear