At a Gala dinner at the UTS Grand Hall Ralph Kelly Founder and Director of the Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation received the Community Alumni Award.
Each year the University of Technology Sydney formally recognises and celebrates the outstanding achievements of UTS alumni as well as graduates from our six antecedent institutions.
The UTS Alumni Awards showcase the breadth and depth of UTS’s alumni community and the extraordinary ways in which UTS graduates are contributing to their profession and society as a whole.
The recipients of the 2015 UTS Alumni Awards were announced on Thursday 22 October 2015.
Our composer Phillip Wilcher was deeply shaken by this event and like so many composers turned to his art for solace, but also with a view to giving some comfort to the Kelly family and to the world at large. He chose Gerard Manly Hopkins’s poem, Heaven-Haven, and used it to inspire a string quartet that bears the same name.
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Ralph and Kathy Kelly call on NSW Government and society to take a stand on alcohol fuelled violence; the Kelly's have updated their change.org petition with specific new measures to address alcohol-relating offending.
The parents of king-hit victim Thomas Kelly have stepped up their campaign to get the NSW Government to tackle the issue of alcohol-fuelled violence.
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![The Foundation A Year in Review 2013]()
To all our dear friends,
We would sincerely like to thank all of our partners who have so generously given so much of their time to support our foundation and cause. Without your help none of what we have achieved in the last 12-months would have been feasible. We are truly blessed to have your support and recognise every single persons input as invaluable.
The board of directors of the foundation will focus our attention on changing attitude in our youth to pre-fuelling, binge-drinking and the current opinion that its "cool to be drunk". Associated within this is alcohol-fuelled violence which led to the tragic death of our beautiful son Thomas in July 2012 that has left our family decimated.
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THIS is a national tragedy.
2013 was another year of senseless violence on our nation's streets and most of it was fuelled by alcohol.
Despite the well-publicised tragedy of Thomas Kelly, 18, killed in 2012 out on his first night on the town, the king-hit assaults continued this year.
In NSW, there are more police fighting the war on alcohol than there are troops left fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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For Immediate release: Monday 09th December 2013
NEW CCTV CAMERAS TO HELP PREVENT VIOLENCE IN SYDNEY ‘HOT SPOTS’
The Thomas Kelly Youth Foundation, welcomes today the City of Sydney’s swift action in supporting an additional ten (10) CCTV cameras to be located in the Kings Cross area, the CBD and Surry Hills. They will add to Sydney’s existing 87 Street Safety CCTV cameras.
Since Thomas’ death, Ralph and Kathy Kelly have been strong advocates for additional CCTV cameras in key “hotspot” areas identified across the city and Darlinghurst.
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