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IWA Fundraiser 2026

2026 IWA English Book Fair for Charity

Each year, the IWA collects funds for selected local charities through its Annual English Book Fair. You can see the charities we have supported in the past here.

In 2025, we raised 1,500 euros for Kinder.Leben auf Zeit, an organisation that accompanies and supports children and teenagers with life-threatening illnesses throughout Styria. 

We will collect funds for a selected charity at our next English Book Fair in October 2026. The exact date and charity are still TBA, so please watch this space.

You can also click here to donate to our IWA charity fund – everything you contribute goes to a good cause!

Please donate now!

In 2024, the IWA donated 1,500 EUR to the TARA Counselling Centre.

TARA is an organisation in Graz that provides:

  • Crisis support: advice and support for women and girls aged 16 and above who have suffered or fended off sexual violence.

  • Psycho-social counselling: help finding the right options that enable women to cope with this difficult situation.

  • Advice for relatives, companions, involved teachers and social workers.

  • Legal process support: advice and support when filing a complaint with the police and with court proceedings. TARA’s lawyers and counsellors accompany the affected woman or girl in court and during the court case.

Read more about TARA’s work in their English information sheet and see the announcement of our donation in Der Grazer. TARA provides help for girls and women throughout Styria and is flooded with requests. Our donation helped the team provide even more support.

Learn more about TARA

IWA Charity Work

The IWA actively raises funds and provides assistance throughout the year for the benefit of community and charitable organisations.

These organisations:   

  • ...are primarily based in Austria
  • ...generally benefit women and/or children
  • ...have no or less state funding or support
  • ...provide services that educate and/or empower women
  • ...strengthen the local community
  • ...support the mission of the IWA
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"Thank you very much for thinking of the girls at the Mafalda JA.M Girls' Centre and providing your generous donation!"
Four women holding books
― Ursula K. ―Director of the J.AM Mädchenzentrum (2014)
"Sincere thanks from all of us at Haus Rosalie for the generous donation, which will help us purchase heating oil for the winter and support project costs"!"
IWA Graz charity Haus Rosalie
― Mathilde U. ―Haus Rosalie - VinziWerke (2020)
"Our warmest thanks to the IWA for their generous donation, which we will use to continue to support great programmes like bicycle training and language courses for women!"
Two women on bikes
― Marianne H.-B. ―DANAIDA (2021)