FAQs

Giving Day is the biggest day of the year for Pets Of The Homeless, when every donation is tripled by generous matchers. That means that every dollar you give has three-times the impact. It’s called “Never Tear Them Apart” to highlight our mission: keeping vulnerable people and their pets together through times of hardship.

This year, we’re celebrating a decade of keeping best friends together, and we need your help to reach our biggest goal yet: $450,000 to change more lives than ever before.

Giving Day will take place on Wednesday 12 November 2025.

If you'd like to help kickstart our appeal before that, any donations you make from 29 October to 12 November 2025 will be tripled by our generous matchers. 

In times of hardship, we often turn to our best friends for love and support. And when a person’s only lifeline is their pet, that bond becomes more important than ever. But if a rough patch in life means they have to be separated, wouldn’t you want to step in and help keep them together? That’s our driving purpose here at Pets Of The Homeless. 

Your generosity will allow us to provide essential veterinary care and pet food, because a person’s financial position shouldn’t prevent their pets from receiving the care they need. And because we believe that no animal should ever have to be surrendered due to homelessness, your support will help us continue to provide emergency pet boarding and foster care to give people in crisis the opportunity to get back on their feet.

This year we are aiming to reach our biggest goal yet: $450,000.

It’s ambitious, but achieving our target on this single day will ensure we can focus all of our efforts on helping people and pets for an entire year. Your support can make a huge difference.

On Giving Day, our matching partners have pledged to match every donation two times in addition to your original gift up to our goal of $450,000. This means that your $1 becomes $3 in real impact. 

So for example:

• $41= $123 to help feed three pets with nurtitious meals for a month.
• $66 = $198 to provide a whole week of safe shelter to a pet in need.
• $128 = $384 to help keep three pets happy and healthy with a routine veterinary check up.
• $325 = $975 to help ensure three pets will receive life-saving emergency veterinary care.

We are deeply grateful for our Giving Day gift matchers including our Major Patner, Scratch.

Our other wonderful gift matchers include The Paw Grocer, About A Dog, Gillies Foundation, Sunraysia Foundation, Henry and Cecilia Foundation, Birchall Foundation, Forster Family Foundation, Sheehan-Birrell Foundation, and many other friends of Pets Of The Homless who committed to contributing to our gift matching pool. 

Our gift matchers for 2025 are now allocated, but if you would like be a gift matching partner for our 2026 Giving Day Appeal by making a donation of $1,000 or more, please contact us at donation@petsofthehomeless.org.au

Yes! Pets Of The Homeless is a registered charity with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. So donations of $2 or more are tax-deductible within Australia. 

A donation receipt will be emailed to you once you donate.

You can donate online via our Giving Day online donation portal here. During the appeal you’ll see the gift match applied automatically, and your donation will be added to our overall fundraising tally. 

If you would prefer to donate via bank transfer, please use the below details - however please note that your donation will not automatically be tripled by our gift matchers and added to our overall Giving Day tally.

When you make your EFT deposit, please email accounts@petsofthehomeless.org.au with your name, donation date and amount so we can send you a tax deductible receipt. Please note that receipts will be issued to you the month following your donation.

Bank: ANZ

Acc Name: Pets of the Homeless Ltd

BSB: 013472

Acc No: 300315346

Yes! You can set up your own fundraising page or sign up your pet as an ambassador in support of the appeal. For more information, visit our Fundraise page. 

Go to our Fundraise page and click 'Get Started'. You’ll then be prompted to fill in your details (name, email, etc), set up your online fundraising page. 

Once registered, you’ll receive more information and your very own fundraising page link to share with your friends and family. 

All funds you raise via your fundraising page from 29 October to 12 November will be tripled by our gift matchers and added to our overall Giving Day tally.

You can see how your efforts compare to others by checking out our Fundraiser Leaderboard on our main Giving Day page.

They sure will! When people give through your fundraising page within Australia, they receive a tax-deductible receipt from Pets Of The Homeless.