Australian Fan Funds

This site is devoted to all things dealing with fan funds involving Australia. It is intended to be an archive of everything related to Aussie-linked fan funds: ballots, voting details, administrators reports, bits from newszines saying “I’m back and the trip was fantastic…”, trip reports, and so on.

This is envisaged as being a work permanently in progress: comments, corrections, and contributions are eagerly solicited. Any offers to retype or scan material will be accepted with glee.

Please note that this site is not the official website of any Fan Fund.

NEWS

The 2013 FFANZ Race

The call for candidates for the 2013 FFANZ race has been announced. Fans residing New Zealand are eligible for nomination to be this year’s FFANZ recipient, to help them get to Conflux, the 2013 Australian Natcon.

For more information please check out this link. Nomination details must reach the Administrators by 10th February, 2013.

The 2013 DUFF Race

The call for candidates for the 2013 DUFF race has been announced. Fans residing Australia and New Zealand are eligible for nomination to be this year’s DUFF recipient, and will attend LoneStarCon 3, the 71st World Science Fiction Convention, to be held in San Antonio, Texas.

For more information please check out this link. Nomination details must reach the Administrators by 31st March, 2013.

WHAT’S A FAN FUND?

Fan Funds exist as a means to provide closer links between various national science fiction fandoms. They achieve this aim by providing the funds for a well-known fan from one country to attend a major science fiction convention in another country. The Funds exist solely through the financial support and generosity of fandom.

WHAT FAN FUNDS ARE COVERED BY THIS SITE?

Any Fund with an Australian connection. There are four on-going Funds:

DUFF moves people between North America and Australasia. Its current administrators are John Hertz and Dave Cake.

FFANZ moves people between New Zealand and Australia. Its current administrators are Stephen Litten & Jan Butterworth and Edwina Harvey. Ross Temple maintains FFANZ’s homepage.

GUFF moves people between Europe and Australia. Its current administrators are James Shields and Sue Ann Barber & Trevor Clark.

NAFF moves fans within Australia to the Australian National Convention. The current administrators are Grant Watson, Sue Ann Barber and Gina Goddard.

In addition there have been a variety of one-off Funds, including the BBB (Bring Bruce Bayside) Fan Fund.

WHO’S RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS?

The site is managed by Irwin Hirsh, who wishes to acknowledge:

• Jean Weber, who is providing webspace and significant admin support;
• Dave Langford, whose TAFF site has been an inspiration and who allowed me to re-use some of his htmled files;
• Marc Ortlieb, whose publication An Australian Compendium of Fandom was my initial reference;
• Damien Warman, with whom I bounced around some ideas;
• Perry Middlemiss, who provided me with quite a few files and who probably would’ve done something like this years ago but instead got sidetracked by some Worldcon-thingyies; and
• Janice Gelb, Edwina Harvey, Paul Kincaid, Dave Langford, Dave Locke (for the late Jackie Causgrove), Roman Orszanski, Joyce Scrivner, Alan Stewart, and Bob Tucker who have provided documents and/or ‘reprint’ permissions (though not all items are yet on the site.)

TRIVIA

Building this site I began to notice a whole lot of useless information about Fan Funds. To share in this trivia click here.

IF YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS SITE…

…you may wish to make a donation to one of these funds. Fan Funds exist solely due to generosity of fandom. Any donation you may make would be gratefully appreciated and put to good use.

Alternately, you may wish to purchase an item or two that are being sold to benefit the various Funds.

RELATED SITES

The League of Fan Funds.
The Australasian Fan Fund Live Journal.
Dave Langford’s TAFF website.
FANAC’s Fan History website.
Bill Burns’ eFanzines website.
Guy & Rosy Lillian’s 2004 DUFF race website and 2005 DUFF race website.
Janice Gelb’s DUFF website covers the 2000 and 2001 DUFF Races.
Norman Cates DUFF website covers the 2009 DUFF Race.
Jean Weber’s and Eric Lindsay’s GUFF website.

SITE HISTORY

Previous iterations of this website can be found at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

PSST JOE, YOU WANT FANZINES?

This doesn’t have anything to do with Aussie Fan Funds, but if you want to purchase some good fanzines and help out a good fan check out this page.