As an organisation, Pure Finance is committed to putting 5% of revenue to work for good via our impact giving model: Pure Community. This 5% is split between three main impact areas:
PAY THE RENT (1%)
For the agency, autonomy and self-determination of First Nations people and communities.
PLANET (1%)
For resourcing environmental protection, resilience and climate activism.
PEOPLE (3%)
For YOURS, our new NFP providing no-cost, no-interest loans that enable participants to meet economic needs or realise personal and professional goals with dignity and autonomy.
Let's take a look at where Pure Community redistributed funds for the second half of 2025.
PAY THE RENT (1%)
Mudgin-Gal
Mudgin-Gal (‘Women’s Place’) is a community-based Aboriginal service located in Redfern/Gadigal, that is managed and staffed by Aboriginal women, for Aboriginal women. They deliver support, referrals and community-based services to Aboriginal women and families and, since opening in 1992, remains the only service of this nature in the Metropolitan Sydney area.
A leader in domestic and family violence prevention, Mudgin-Gal promotes an anti-violence message in all of its work, with its award-winning model and programs having been adapted state-wide.
Led by CEO Ashlee Donohue, a proud Dunghutti Woman, Mudgin-Gal acts as a safe haven and provides active support to women, girls and their families through a peer-to-peer approach. While offering a drop-in centre, where women can safely access essential goods and services, such as laundry & shower facilities, sanitary products, internet access and fresh food, they also provide a wide variety of parenting programs, playgroups and art classes, all designed to provide a source of positive cultural and social networking. Through their important work, Mudgin-Gal is equipping women and young girls with the self esteem, confidence and life skills they need to become role models for their own children and families and, by extension, for their community.
More recently, Mudgin-Gal launched their groundbreaking podcast and research project, ‘Mudgin-Gal Yarns’ – a five-part podcast series, providing a platform for inner-city Aboriginal women to speak openly about their experiences with the systems that are supposed to protect them: police, government, and services. Their candid conversations, featuring voices rarely heard in the national conversation, explore what works, what fails, and importantly, what needs to change. You can listen to ‘Mudgin-Gal Yarns’ here.
Mudgin-Gal is currently run through the efforts of volunteers, and receives intermittent funding from state and federal government sources on a project-by-project basis. As such, the breadth, depth and continuity of the services they provide are under constant threat, with day-to-day administration and other critical requirements unfunded.
PLANET (1%)
Australian Climate Case - Appeal Fund
Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul are Guda Maluyligal Traditional Owners from Boigu and Saibai Islands in Zenadth Kes (the Torres Strait). With the Uncles and their communities faced with rising sea levels, tides flooding their homes, sacred land eroding into the sea and soil becoming too salty to grow food, they took the Australian Government to court in 2021 for failing to act on, and prevent, climate change. Their argument? Due to this failure, the Federal Government has negligently and unlawfully breached its duty of care to the Torres Strait community.
In July this year, the Federal Court handed down its decision on the case in Gumuy/Cairns. In it, Justice Wigney found that the Torres Strait Islands, people and culture are being “ravaged by human induced climate change” and that climate change poses “an existential threat to the whole of humanity”. He said that the Australian Government does not “currently” have a legal duty of care to protect Torres Strait people from climate harm and that it is not open to a “single judge of this Court to expand the Australian common law of negligence”.
On behalf of us all and backed by an army of supporters right across the country, the Uncles are set to challenge this decision in the Full Federal Court. Their legal team will argue that the judge erred in several of his legal conclusions, and put to the court that: the Commonwealth does owe a duty of care to Torres Strait Islanders in relation to climate change; the Commonwealth’s additional emissions are a legal cause of harm to Torres Strait Islanders; and cultural harm is compensable under Australian law.
In the Uncle's own words:
“Since the decision, we have sat with community on our islands and listened to the rhythms of our mothers, Boigu and Saibai. We have sat at our kitchen tables with our children as climate change ravages Country and takes their future piece by piece by piece…The moral burden of this case has been heavy, but we know we are not alone.”
FOLLOW:
PEOPLE (3%)
YOURS
There was also an additional $26,046 added to the YOURS lending pool this round.
On behalf of the entire Pure Finance team, we’d like to thank the people, communities and organisations that are working hard to make our world a more just and equitable one. It’s an honour to be able to support your important work.
If you’d like to learn more about Pure Community, you can visit the designated website here. If you have any questions, you can get in touch with us here.
Unless otherwise stated, Pure Community and Pure Finance have no direct affiliation with the organisations and initiatives listed above, or on the Pure Community website. We simply appreciate the work that they do, and choose to show our appreciation by lending our support.