By giving to the TLC Foundation, you're helping to protect Tasmania’s natural treasures forever.
The TLC Foundation is our endowment fund – a secure, long-term source of income that supports the management of TLC reserves now and into the future.
Protecting land is only the beginning. Our reserves need ongoing care to ensure their ecosystems and wildlife continue to thrive. The Foundation helps provide the reliable funding needed to manage these places for the long term.
How the TLC Foundation works
Established in 2009, the TLC Foundation is designed to provide long-term funding for the care of our permanent reserves.
Gifts to the Foundation are invested ethically, with the aim of preserving the capital while generating sustainable income for conservation. That income helps fund essential reserve management and ecological monitoring each year.
Our long-term aim is to ensure every TLC reserve has the funding it needs to thrive.
We estimate the ongoing management needs of our reserves and continue to monitor both their condition and the effectiveness of our conservation work. As management priorities change, costs evolve or new reserves are protected, we can adjust our long-term funding needs.
The TLC Foundation model links long-term funding with ongoing conservation management and monitoring.
This approach helps ensure the places we protect today can continue to be cared for well into the future.
What Foundation income supports
Every dollar generated by the TLC Foundation supports conservation action on our reserves.
This includes:
- long-term ecological monitoring
- visual and acoustic wildlife monitoring
- weed and feral species control
- fencing, firebreaks and access roads
- other essential reserve management and restoration work.
This reliable source of income also gives TLC the ability to plan for the long term – helping us understand how our reserves are changing and respond as their conservation needs evolve.
Find out more about our ecological monitoring.
Help nature thrive forever
When you give to the TLC Foundation, your contribution becomes part of an endowment designed to generate income for conservation for generations to come.
There are several ways you can contribute:
1. Establish a named fund
Individuals, businesses and trusts can establish a named Foundation fund with a minimum tax-deductible contribution of $10,000.
A named fund can honour a loved one, reflect your organisation’s values or celebrate a personal connection to Tasmania’s wild places. You and others can add to the fund at any time, helping it grow and increase its long-term impact.
Email us to find out about establishing a named fund.
2. Contribute to an existing fund
You can make a tax-deductible donation to one of the named funds already established within the TLC Foundation.
Explore our named funds.
3. Leave a gift in your will
By including TLC and the Foundation in your will, you can make a lasting contribution to conservation beyond your lifetime.
Find out more about leaving a gift in your will.
Learn more
If you are considering establishing a named fund, making a significant contribution or leaving a gift in your will, we’d be very happy to talk with you about the options available.
Email us at info@tasland.org.au or call +61 3 6225 1399.
’In 2017 I wanted to do something in memory of my husband Cameron Blackburn who died of leukaemia in his early 20s. A Fund in the TLC Foundation seemed the perfect memorial. I approached Cameron’s family and his brother Gerald was enthusiastic about joining me in this venture. It is wonderful to have the Cameron Blackburn Fund to contribute to protecting Tasmania’s unique land and seascapes that Cameron loved so much.’
Sue Blackburn
Photo: Eddie Safarik
