Partners & Supporters
Since 2002, Desert Pea Media has been invited by more than 100 First Nations communities to make 200+ projects together – stories told through film, song, and collaboration. This work has been backed by governments, foundations, businesses and – most importantly – the communities listed on this page.
Past and Current Funders
Community Partners Who Have Engaged DPM
Aboriginal community-controlled organisations, local services, and institutions who have engaged DPM to work with their communities and programs.
In-Kind Supporters and Delivery Partners
Businesses and sector peers who have valued our work enough to directly donate their resources, goods and services.
Project Partners and Upstream Funders
Communities lead our projects and bring their supporters with them. DPM acknowledges the organisations below, and the funders who backed their collaborations with us.
Yawarj Mara – Strong Pathways and the Narragunnawali music video, Canberra 2024–25
Chief Minister's Charitable Fund
Kuku Bakal Kaykayanda – Wujal Wujal and Mossman 'Still Believing', 2025–26
Arts Queensland
Cabbage Tree Island flood-recovery song 'Wanna Go Home', 2022
Regional NSW Children and Young People Wellbeing Recovery Initiative
'Heartbeat', Wilcannia 2019
Aboriginal Environmental Health
ARC Linkage health research partnership, 2021
Ntaria/Hermannsburg songwriting across three generations, 2019
Djabugay-led creative project with YouthLink Kuranda, 2026
Community Partners
Local organisations who have hosted, co-created and guided DPM projects on Country.
2CuzFM
Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service
Apollo House
Art Informal Gallery (Manila)
Arts North West
Australian Theatre for Young People
Baja Baja Youth Centre
Bathurst Local Aboriginal Land Council
Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre
Bathurst Regional Council
Bathurst Women & Children's Refuge
BMEET (Barkindji Maraura Elders Environmental Team)
Bourke Shire Council
Bularri Muurlay Nyanggan Aboriginal Corporation
BushMob Aboriginal Corporation
Cabonne Council
Cairns Community Hub
Centacare – Communities for Children (Dubbo)
Clowns Without Borders
Condobolin Family Support
Cook Shire Council
Cowra PCYC
Creative Recovery Network
Dakila (Philippines)
Deniliquin LALC
Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Djelk Rangers (Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation)
Dubbo PCYC
Enhance Consultancy & Training
Enngonia CWA
FaHCSIA
Fig Tree Descendants Aboriginal Corporation
Galamaay Brothers
Girudala Community Co-operative Society
Githabul Rangers
Gordon Neighbourhood Centre
The Greenhoose (Lockhart River)
Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation
Headspace Tweed Heads
The Hope Project (Cunnamulla)
Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre
InCite Youth Arts
Jagun Elders Group
Jetty Beach House (Coffs Harbour)
Jilamara Arts & Crafts
Just Reinvest NSW
Lachlan Shire Youth Services
Lockhart River Aboriginal Shire Council
Leader In Development
Mallee Family Care
Maningrida Greats Youth Service
Maranguka Community Hub (Bourke)
Meriam Dance Group
Miyay Birray Youth Service
Moree Plains Shire Council
Muli Muli Local Aboriginal Land Council
Mullumbimby & District Neighbourhood Centre
Murrawarri LALC (Enngonia)
Music NT
My Pathways
Narromine Community Skills Project
Ntaria Choir
Orange City Council
Outback Arts
Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council
Palm Island Community Company
Parkes Wiradjuri Language Group
Rhinoceros Records
Rotary Club of Parkes
Rous County Council
Song Division
Speakout
St Louis University Cultural Performance Group
Strong & Deadly Community Festival
Stylin Up Festival
Torres Health Indigenous Corporation
TSIMA
Trangie LALC
Tweed Byron LALC
The Ub Ubbo Project
Uncle Alfred Smallwood's Mentoring Group
Uniting Dubbo–Ngurambang Child & Family Services
Vibe Australia
Wakakirri Storytelling Festival
Walgett LALC
Walgett Shire Council
Walker Wayland NSW
Wilcannia River Radio
The Wiwa Project
Wujal Wujal Community Justice Group
Yabun Festival
Yarn Australia
Yoorana Gunya Family Healing Centre
YouthLink Kuranda
…and the many local Elders groups, language groups and community organisations acknowledged in each project's credits.
Schools We’ve Worked With Since 2002
More than fifty schools and colleges – many in Australia's most remote communities – have hosted, co-created, and in several cases directly funded DPM projects.
New South Wales
Ballina Coast High
Baryulgil Public
Bathurst High
Blayney High
Boggabilla Central
Bourke High*
Broken Hill High
Collarenebri Central
Condobolin High
Coomealla High
Coonamble High
Cootamundra High*
Deniliquin High
Eden Marine High
Forbes High
Kelso High
Lake Cargelligo Central
Maclean High
MacKillop College (Bathurst)
Macleay Vocational College
Melville High (Kempsey)*
Mian School (Dubbo)
Moree Secondary College
Oberon High
Parkes Public
Portland Central
Red Bend Catholic College (Forbes)
St Francis Xavier School (Lake Cargelligo)
St Ignatius Parish School (Bourke)
St Mary's High (Wellington)
Trangie Central
Walgett Community College
Warren High (Warren Central)
Wilcannia Central
Woodenbong Central
Queensland
Ayr State High
Cairns State High
Cloncurry State School
Cunnamulla P-12*
Heatley State School (Townsville)
Kuranda District State College
Lockhart State School
Richmond Hill Primary (Charters Towers)
Shalom Christian College (Townsville)
St Teresa's College (Abergowrie)
Tagai State College (Torres Strait, incl. Murray Island campus)
Northern Territory
Jabiru Area School
Katherine High
Maningrida College
Milikapiti School (Tiwi)
Ntaria School (Hermannsburg)
St Joseph's College (Katherine)
Western Australia
Tjuntjuntjara Remote Community School
* These schools have directly funded DPM projects.
Partner With Us
"We knew that a different approach was needed to address mental health in Indigenous communities…Desert Pea Media's unique program has enabled this."
– Andrew Harvey, CEO, Western NSW Primary Health Network
Every project on this page started with a yarn. If you would like to join us in our community-led storytelling, we would love to talk.