The Tocal Homestead precinct hosts the finest collection of colonial farm buildings dating from the 1830s. The Tocal Building Fund was set up to help individuals and organisations to contribute to the conservation and preservation of these buildings. It is thanks to the generosity of our donors that the Homestead was able to be completely open for interpretation with several rooms restored and refurbished in 2018. While the Homestead still requires interior painting of the stairway and the sitting room, larger projects such as restoring the rotten boards in our tea rooms, repairing timberwork in the old brick kitchen and seeking heritage approval to restore Thunderbolt’s Cottage are also works we need to get started on. Donations of $2 or more are welcomed and tax deductible.

Donors are also welcome to contribute towards the Tocal Prize and Trust Fund which was been set up to support students in various forms and provide the donor with a tax deductible receipt. This ensures that CB Alexander’s legacy of providing financial support to students to further their agricultural study continues. Donations can be of any amount with their donor, amount and how they were used recorded in our prize and trust database. We have had very generous donors providing an amount every year towards a student scholarship while others have left a gift in their will to provide support in perpetuity. All scholarships are awarded to the student in the name of the donor or whomever the donor wishes to record the name of the scholarship in. A register of our scholarships is published every year in the Tocal College Graduation report while the physical funds are accounted for in our audited financial statements as “restricted assets”. We take great pride in being accountable and are able to provide donors with the current balance of their fund, interest received, scholarships paid and any other transactions that have increased or decreased their original donation.