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Flipside Circus Among Recipients of Brisbane Airport’s Biggest-Ever Community Fund

Flipside Circus, based in Hamilton, is among 16 organisations to share in Brisbane Airport’s largest ever Community Giving Fund, with $125,000 distributed across grassroots groups this year.

Read: Flipside Circus Opens Brisbane Circus Centre, Its New Home At Northshore Hamilton

Flipside Circus received funding to support a program providing First Nations youth with access to professional mentorship and training in the creative arts, including circus and acrobatics.

The 2026 round was the largest since the fund launched in 2015, surpassing last year’s $100,000 to coincide with 100 years of Brisbane Airport. The grant program provides financial support to grassroots community organisations working across education, environment, health and inclusive initiatives, with a new community sport category added this year to recognise the role local sporting clubs play in health and wellbeing.

Photo credit: Facebook/Flipside Circus

Brisbane Airport CEO Gert-Jan de Graaff said the airport played an active role in supporting local communities. “By supporting community-led initiatives, we’re helping organisations deliver the services, programs and opportunities that matter most to those communities,” he said.

Other funded organisations work across health, education and community services. Baby Give Back, a Queensland charity that provides clothing, nappies and other material basics to vulnerable families, will use its grant as a co-contribution to reopen its Brisbane warehouse and update the fitout to hold more supplies. Variety Queensland will deliver a financial literacy education programme across 10 special or high needs schools in Brisbane, reaching between 250 and 300 students.

Photo credit: Facebook/Flipside Circus

Brisbane Airport Community Engagement Manager Portia Allison said the fund had attracted a diverse range of applications. “From youth programs to grassroots sport, there are organisations and groups across every corner of Brisbane delivering important work to support their local communities,” she said.

Read: Brisbane Airport Fires up Record Community Giving Fund for 2026

Since 2015, Brisbane Airport has donated more than $655,000 through the Community Giving Fund to community groups and non-profit organisations. The airport also supports the community through its annual Lost Property Auction, Community Giving Globes, Containers for Change recycling, and aeromedical partnerships with the Royal Flying Doctor Service and LifeFlight.

Published 22-April-2026

Flipside Circus on Track for 2022 Opening at Brisbane Circus Centre

Video Still Credit: Flipside Circus / Vimeo

A successful fundraising event puts Flipside Circus right on track to open at its permanent home at the Brisbane Circus Centre in Northshore’s Riverfront Event Space this 2022. 

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Flipside Circus celebrates the successful holding of its inaugural Giving Day – a 12-hour fundraising event that was organised to help fund the construction of its new purpose-built centre – held on 4 November 2021. As donations and messages of support came pouring in, generous supporters matched each donation, doubling the amount raised that day to $115,240. 




The Australian Government also invested a total of $1 million for the project through the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development’s Community Development Grants Programme. Whilst an additional $290,000 in funding was also received from the State Government through the Arts Queensland’s Strategic Infrastructure Fund. 

Photo credit: Flipside Circus / flipsidecircus.org.au

The project, located at 221 MacArthur Avenue in Hamilton, will create an estimated 48 jobs and a further 25 jobs once operational. The state-of-the-art space is poised to become the largest circus centre to be built in Queensland, enabling Flipside Circus to train more than 55,000 participants and accommodate around 110,00 visitors a year.

Photo credit: Flipside Circus / flipsidecircus.org.au

Also, the custom-built centre will be unique in form and function in that it will utilise modular, prefabricated materials, shipping containers and canvas.

“Both the form and the function of the space will revolve around circus, and we’ll be able to put it up and build it in stages. So we can be using it straight away because of the fact that it’s modular and flexible, and that marriage of form and function is really exciting for us,” Kronk said.

Brisbane Circus Centre – Flipside Circus new home from Flipside Circus on Vimeo.

Read: Northshore Hamilton Prepares to Transform for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics

You can still donate and help the organisation complete the Stage 1 construction of the Brisbane Circus Centre through this link.

About Flipside Circus

Flipside Circus is a not-for-profit organisation that was established in 1998. Starting from community-based workshops run by circus artists and families, Flipside Circus has since grown to be the largest youth arts organisation in Queensland.

It offers a variety of classes and workshops, catering to ages 18 months old to adults, from all skill levels, and all abilities. There is also an artistic program of performances created by, for and with young people.

The organisation also offers workshops for Outside School Hour Care providers and school excursions and incursions and provides support for upcoming and professional circus artists. Their current circus space is located at 33 MacArthur Avenue, Hamilton.