Joyful Foundation

22/05/2026

So grateful to Cowboys Leagues Club for giving us the opportunity to fundraise for the Joyful Foundation.
We always have great support from some of our very special volunteers, who continue on the legacy of their mother, grandmother and Great Grandmother Joy Donnellan. Included in the photo is Joy's daughter Lorren Muggleton, her son Sebastian and daughter Evie, and Sebastian's daughter Callie.

We have started the year also with our new Joyful Foundation shirts. Fourteen years running now and we have refreshed our shirts with brighter colours.

We will continue to make children's lives brighter, and provide those basic school requirements that no child should miss out on.💙💙

18/05/2026

Come along to the Cowboys Leagues Club for some great food, and help the Joyful Foundation fundraise to help local disadvantaged school children forge a brighter future and provide the basics of a better education. There are plenty of prizes to be won. Tuesday night 19th May between 6.30pm to 7.30pm😇😇

This National Volunteer Week, we’re shining a light on the incredible local organisations making a difference in our community.

DAY 1 💙 JOYFUL FOUNDATION
Joyful Foundation is helping North Queensland students thrive by providing essential school supplies to those who would otherwise go without. Because every child deserves the tools to learn, grow and succeed.

👉 Support them this Tuesday night at the Club from 6:30pm with our Charity Raffles, with all proceeds going directly to the Joyful Foundation.

13/05/2026

Hello friends and families.

I need your support by voting for Ethan to win the 7News Young Achiever Queensland 2026 People’s Choice Award.

🗳️ Cast your vote here in this link: https://awardsaustralia.app.do/2026-7news-young-achiever-awards-qld-people-s-choice-award.

Then scroll the album, click on Ethan's photo and send your vote.

🔁 Vote once a day, every day until the poll closes at 11:59pm on Monday, 15 June 2026.

The Finalist with the most votes will be announced as the People’s Choice Award winner at the Gala Presentation Dinner on Friday, 19 June 2026, and will receive a special prize.

26/02/2026

Thankyou for your appreciation post. Our positive feedback we receive from the 100 schools that we support throughout North Qld, is proof that the Joyful Foundation is making a difference, and achieving our aim of making children's lives better when it involves their education and their future.😇😇😇

✨ Thank You for Your Generosity! ✨
A heartfelt thank you to Joyful Foundation for donating stationery supplies to support our students.

Your generosity helps ensure every child has the tools they need to feel prepared, confident and ready to learn. We truly appreciate your support of our school community. 💜

24/02/2026

is so proud of all the work do for our Charity, supporting our Annual Stationery Pack delivery to 100 schools throughout North Qld. Thankyou for enabling the wonderful work that Ron Donnellan initiated and grew in honour of his daughter Joy Donnellan. 14 years now and still going strong.😇😇😇

21/02/2026

Thankyou so much to the for your appreciation letter.This is recognition knowing that our Charity we formed 14 years ago to honour Joy Donnellan, is still working and going strong.😇😇😇

11/02/2026

Joyful Foundation's partnership with Soroptimist International Townsville Breakwater sees this amazing project of the creation of about 850 Library Bags made to fit our stationery packs. Thankyou also to the for your appreciation post. It is wonderful to see our Charity continue to help N Qld school kids forge a brighter future.😇😇😇😇

We are grateful to the Joyful Foundation for your generous donation of stationery packs. A big thank you also goes to Soroptimist International Townsville Breakwater for your thoughtful contribution of library bags. We truly appreciate receiving these items each year to support our students at Hermit Park.🙏

10/02/2026

Such wonderful feedback from one of the many schools that we have been supporting in North Qld over the last 14 years, . All monies raised and donated to the stay in North Qld, always supporting our local Community. As we are all volunteers, 100% of the monies raised go towards our cause, and not in administration or wages costs. We are all very passionate at the Joyful Foundation, and it is the positive difference that we are making in young children's lives and their schooling which is our reward. Our founder Ron Donnellan formed this Charity in 2012 knowing that: "It is in giving that you truly Receive". 😇😇😇😇

A huge thank you to the Joyful Foundation, a generous organisation that gives back by supporting students with essential back-to-school items. Your kindness eases financial stress for families and shows students that their community cares about them. Delivery of all packs is supported by Ergon Energy. A representative of Ergon Tully delivered the packs. Thank you all for your support.

04/02/2026

Listen to Ethan Cavanagh's inspirational talk about how he is making a difference to local disadvantaged children locally, by providing backpacks not only filled with stationery and school supplies, but also filled with hope. Giving something special to those children that come to school with nothing, can make all the difference in their education.😇😇😇😇

03/02/2026

Ethan Cavanagh, founder of 'Bags of Kindness' and 'Bags for Stars' has come on board this year and helped our Charity by providing 126 backpacks filled with quality stationery, and school supplies to local NQ schools.
Ethan has been doing this since the age of 10, and has been recognised twice as Young Citizen of the Year and recently has received an Order of Australia Association (Qld) Secondary School Citizenship Award.
Thankyou Ethan for all your hard work and dedication. Because of your efforts, 126 disadvantaged children from schools that the Joyful Foundation support, will have something special this year😇😇😇😇