• Compassionate Ballarat

    Compassion moves us to go out of our way to help people experiencing difficulties. 

    It calls upon our sense of fairness, strengthens our relationships and underpins flourishing 

    communities and effective organisations.

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Compassionate Ballarat


Compassionate Ballarat is a volunteer organisation encouraging compassionate decision-making and actions in our city. We provide forums for discussion, promote compassionate actions by residents, publicise the wide range of support services available in the city to assist people in need, and produce timely publications to help people cope with crises such as the COVID lockdowns. In short, we try to get people talking and acting from a viewpoint informed by compassion.


If you can influence your community, organisation or workplace to take a compassionate stand in Ballarat, please contact us.


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Latest News & Updates

Think Equal pilot program launched in Ballarat

By Gemma Kelly • April 2, 2026
Building Compassion in Early Childhood: Think Equal Launches in Ballarat

Compassionate Ballarat Featured in Global Conference

By Lynne Reeder • June 3, 2025
The Charter for Compassion recently held its first ever global conference and Compassionate Ballarat was accepted to present. This conference served as a vibrant platform for sharing insights, and actionable ideas to foster a more compassionate and equitable world. You can listen to the presentation on the history and work of Compassionate Ballarat

New Need Help Brochure

By Compassion Ballarat • May 2, 2025
Do you need help or know someone who does? If you do, then this booklet is for you as it brings together all the food, shelter, support services, and learning services across Ballarat into one place. To make it easier in these cost of living times this booklet provides direct contact details, so in most cases you won’t need to go online. This 2025 version has been updated and so provides many more services than our previous brochure. Let’s look after each other in Ballarat.
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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation, those of the past, present and future.

With gratitude and respect, we recognize their continued relationship, custodianship and bond with the land and waters throughout the ages.  We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

If you would like to give...

Compassionate Ballarat is aware of the growing need for support and resources in our city. 


We will continue to develop and provide what we can and draw upon the global Charter for Compassion for assistance and inspiration that we can share to Ballarat residents.


If you would like to contribute financially to our work, we are grateful to receive donations which can be made via the following link.