Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy and Fertilisers (WesCEF) is offering grants of up to $5,000 to not-for-profit groups in Kwinana and Rockingham to deliver Aboriginal community engagement, environmental sustainability, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education initiatives.
Applications for the WesCEF Community Grants Program are open until 3 March 2026 and community groups, schools and other not-for-profit organisations can apply online via WesCEF’s website.
Now in its fifth year, WesCEF’s grants program has distributed around $150,000 to local organisations in Kwinana and Rockingham, supporting grassroots groups across the areas.
WesCEF Managing Director, Aaron Hood, said the grants were a valuable way for WesCEF to give back to the community it had operated in for many decades through its businesses CSBP and Kleenheat.
“WesCEF is proud to support the communities we operate in and give back by supporting local volunteer-led and not-for-profit groups to deliver valuable programs and services within the community,” Mr Hood said.
“Last year, we supported Ngalla Yorga Waangkan Aboriginal Corporation to expand their equipment and supplies for their women’s gathering and yarning activities, and Gilmore College to help establish a new STEM Centre.
“We were also pleased to support local environmental initiatives, including the Rockingham Regional Environment Centre – Naragebup.”
Naragebup volunteer, Pauline Whitehead, said WesCEF’s Community Grants had contributed to the centre’s successful loggerhead turtle rehabilitation operations and education programs.
“As a not-for-profit run entirely by volunteers, grants like this from WesCEF make such a difference and enable us to continue doing the important environmental work that we do,” Ms Whitehead said.
“Between March and September each year, turtle hatchlings are washed onto beaches down the coast, and we are one of only three organisations in South Western Australia who rehabilitate these hatchlings.
“Over several years, WesCEF’s support has contributed to education programs and helped provide food and electricity needed to keep our endangered turtles alive and thriving until they are big enough to be released back into their natural habitat up north.”
To be eligible for the WesCEF grants program, organisations must be not-for-profit, operate within Rockingham or Kwinana, and be either incorporated or partnered with an incorporated organisation or affiliated to an incorporated organisation willing to host the donation on their behalf.
Applications close 3 March 2026. More information is available at www.wescef.com.au/grants