History

The Fund was established on 1 July 2000 as a non-profit, ancillary gift fund by the Coordinating Cat Council of Australia (CCCA) with a working party formulating initial guidelines.

It was launched on 21 July 2001 in Canberra and approved it’s first research grants in 2007.

In 2018 the Fund adopted a new Trust Deed which:

• updated the Deed to reflect a new model deed preferred by the ATO
• increased the number of Trustees to seven
• removed the need for the CCCA member to be present in order for the Board of Trustees to be quorate
• included an Australian Cat Federation member as one of the Trustees

The success of the Fund has been made possible by the contributions of a large number of organisations and individuals, including, but not limited to: