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

Last December, Forbes Australia announced their latest "30 under 30" list of high achievers, and Phoebe Britten was on it! The article focused on the non-profit that Phoebe founded, Inspire Tomorrow Education. “You can’t be what you can’t see,” she says. That idea would become the foundation for Inspire Tomorrow Education: a free tutoring and scholarship-writing support platform for disadvantaged students.” Read the full article at https://www.forbes.com.au/news/30-under-30/t

We are delighted to share that the NSW Bar Association has selected Sosan Rahimi as the recipient of the Katrina Dawson Award for September 2025. Sosan studied a combined Bachelor of Law (Honours) and Bachelor of Science (Psychology) at the University of New South Wales, and was admitted to practice in December 2019. Highlights of Sosan’s career (so far) include stints with state government agencies (the Department of Finance, the Crown Solicitor’s Office and the Department

We were delighted to continue our partnership with the Aurora Education Foundation, helping support five wonderful women go on the 2026 International Study Tour to the United States: Angel Hayward (a proud Noongar woman based in Perth); Cianna Walker (a proud Gumbaynggirr and Walbunja/Yuin woman from Sydney); Luca Codi Sawyer (a proud Wiradjuri woman from Sydney); Ronnella Onyeajum (a proud Kaanju, Barrunggam and Kuku Yalangi woman from Brisbane); and Shahnaz Rind (a proud Ba

Adele Burke (centre), with Nikki and Angus Dawson. Image credit: Sam Mooy. After almost 11 years of operating, we had the opportunity to enhance our impact by partnering with the General Sir John Monash Foundation, an organisation empowering outstanding Australians to pursue postgraduate studies at the world’s best universities and create meaningful impact for Australia. We are thrilled to announce Adele Burke as the inaugural recipient of the 2026 Katrina Dawson John Monash

We have two extra-special performers joining the line-up this year: Annabelle Traves , KDF Concert Founder and international award-winning violinist, and Emily Edmonds , mezzo-soprano with Opera Australia. They join an already impressive group of performers showcasing the talent of past and present Women’s College students. We hope you can join us! Tickets are available here .

Thank you to Charli Dwyer for a wonderful fundraising event at College! KDF Scholar Charli Dwyer (2023–25), together with her mother Kylie Dwyer, hosted a community fundraiser at The Women’s College on 20 October 2025. The event brought together six generous hairdressers, all of whom donated their time and talent to provide haircuts for the girls at Women’s. College students were able to book in for haircuts, with 100% of their payment going directly toward the KDF scholars

As has been the trend in our partnership with The Smith Family Learning for Life Program, we keep seeing so many promising candidates that we have expanded our giving yet again to a record number of 16 prizes this year. We love the work that the Learning for Life Program achieves every year, and we are so pleased to be able to work with them in this small way. The aspirations of the girls are varied and far-reaching – read more about some of the KDF High School Prize recipien