In 2017, Annabelle Traves, an award-winning concert violinist who was a Women’s College resident at the time (and who, since graduating, has toured with André Rieu, Bruce Springsteen and Michael Bublé, amongst others), came up with the idea of a fundraising concert, held at Women’s, in support of The Katrina Dawson Foundation. Since then, eight concerts have been held, raising over $30,000. We were incredibly honoured to have Women’s College alumnae, Annabelle and Emily Edmon

We are so grateful to The Drinks Association (and its Embrace Difference Council) for selecting us again as their charity partner for their annual International Women’s Day fundraising lunch. Thank you to Georgia Lennon and everyone else at The Drinks Association for your continued generosity – raising a record $22,000 this year! Phoebe Britten (2024-25 KDF Scholar) talked at the lunch about what the KDF Scholarship meant to her: “I didn’t grow up surrounded by barristers,

We are delighted to introduce you to our 2026 Scholars – Violet FitzSimons and Abbie Correll – our first scholars to benefit from the increased scholarship amount that we introduced late last year. This takes our total number of KDF scholarships given out to 29. L to R: Abbie Correll and Violet FitzSimons Abbie and Violet join Zoe Weddin, Hayley Fraser and Lily Heraghty at Women’s College this year and are wonderful additions to the KDF Scholar ‘family’. Read more about Abb