The Charlie Perkins Children’s Trust was formed in 2002 in the memory of the late Dr. Charlie Perkins AO. For more information about Charlie Perkins click here.

The Trust was initially set up to assist Indigenous children in the following areas:
	improving the health of Indigenous children
	educating and training Indigenous children
	researching into improving the status of Indigenous children
	addressing the welfare of Indigenous children
	making donations to cultural organisations that promote issues relevant to Indigenous children.

In recent years, the Trust has assisted with the funding of:
	a dialysis unit in Kintore in the Northern Territory
	swimming pools in Kintore and Maningrida in the Northern Territory
	prizes for Indigenous students at Sydney University and an annual oration since [2000]

In October 2008, the Trust’s purposes were expanded to include the education of students as well as children and the Trust was renamed the Charlie Perkins Trust for Children & Students.

The Charlie Perkins Trust for Children & Students

The Trust has been working with the University of Oxford to establish two annual Charlie Perkins Scholarships for Australian Indigenous students to study at the University of Oxford from 2010.
Find out more about the Charlie Perkins Scholarships

The Trust has also been working with the Aurora Project to jointly publish The Indigenous students’ guide to postgraduate scholarships in Australia and overseas, which includes over 120 postgraduate scholarships across all disciplines. Find out more about the Indigenous Students' Guide Pick up a copy of the guide at the Indigenous Higher Education Unit at your university or download an order form in PDF (598KB) or Word (30KB) formats.