Small Business of the Year Finalist 2025
Recognized for our impact in supporting Australia’s first responders
Warrior Strength
True strength is not enduring trauma alone.
Bellator Fortitudinem is a safe place for first responders, offering peer-led, lived-experience support that fosters connection,
recovery, and hope.
Peer Support
Lived experience understanding
Bellator App
Coming soon' 24/7 connection, support, and pathways to help, when it matters most.
Events & Workshops
Peer-led connection, learning, and recovery — together, in community.
Resources
Understanding, tools, and
referral pathways to support
recovery.
Who
We Are
Bellator Fortitudinem means Warrior Strength — and to us, that means having the courage to show up honestly, stand beside one another, and never leave our own behind.
We are a peer-led community built by first responders, for first responders. There is no rank here. No judgement. Just people who have walked through the fire and understand what it means to carry grief, trauma, moral injury, burnout, and loss, and to keep going anyway.
I founded Bellator from lived experience. After more than two decades as a NSW Police Officer, I know what it’s like to show up to the worst day of someone else’s life and then be expected to return home and function as if nothing happened. I know what it’s like to carry those moments quietly, and to feel let down by systems that were meant to protect us.
Bellator exists to change that.
This is not about box-ticking or surface-level self-care. It’s about meaningful connection, peer support, and creating the kind of backup many of us needed but never received, during service, through transition, and beyond the uniform.
If you’ve worn the uniform, stood behind the badge, or carried the weight of someone else’s trauma, you belong here.
This is Bellator Fortitudinem.
We’ve got you.
Nick White
CEO, Founder & Director
Aligned with Australia’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy
Bellator operates under a robust governance framework, with a skills-based Board, clear decision-making processes, risk management, and transparent reporting. This ensures accountability, sustainability, and trust with members, partners, and funders.
We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint and promoting sustainable practices across our operations. From green procurement to energy efficiency and waste reduction, we aim to lead by example and support a transition to a more sustainable future.
Our programmes are designed to create lasting positive change in local communities. We work with members, volunteers, and partners to deliver training, employment pathways, and support services that strengthen resilience and opportunity for all.
Bellator Fortitudinem is a proud organisational member of Suicide Prevention Australia, reflecting our
commitment to best-practice, evidence-informed, and lived-experience-led suicide prevention.
Our work is directly aligned with the National Suicide Prevention Strategy (2024–2034) and its three core
domains: Prevention, Support, and Critical Enablers.
We believe in the power of working together. Through strategic partnerships with government, business, and the voluntary sector, we combine resources and expertise to achieve outcomes that no single organisation could deliver alone.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We invest in learning, development, and wellbeing so that staff and volunteers can thrive. A supported team means better support for the communities and members we serve.
We continuously invest in new ideas, technology, and ways of working to improve our impact and scale what works. Our innovation fund and partnerships with research and industry help us pilot, learn, and grow so we can serve more people better.
At Bellator Fortitudinem, we see you — not just the role you serve, but the human underneath. Whether you’re seeking support, looking to give back, or want to stand beside those who protect our communities, there’s a place for you here.
You Belong Here
Become a Member
At Bellator Fortitudinem, we see you — not just the role you serve, but the human underneath. Whether you’re seeking support, looking to give back, or want to stand beside those who protect our communities, there’s a place for you here.
“You don’t have to earn your place here. You already have one.”
Donate or Partner with Us
Your contribution helps us deliver life-saving programs, develop our 24/7 app, and provide emergency support when it matters most. Every dollar goes toward creating safer, stronger support systems for first responders.
Are you an organisation, business, or individual who believes in our mission? We’re actively seeking values-aligned partners to help us expand our reach, amplify our message, and co-create change.
“Let’s build a future where support for first responders is the standard, not the exception.”
Bellator Fortitudinem App
The Bellator Fortitudinem App is being built to ensure that no first responder faces distress alone — especially in moments when support feels hardest to reach.
Designed with lived experience at its core, the app will provide 24/7 connection to peer-informed support, clear referral pathways, and trusted services for first responders and frontline workers across Australia. It will act as a central access point for help, guidance, and next steps — whether someone is in crisis, navigating recovery, or supporting someone they care about.
To bring the Bellator App to life in 2026, we are working to raise $100,000 to support development, safety, governance, and rollout. Your donation directly contributes to building a tool that strengthens early intervention, connection, and suicide prevention for those who protect our communities every day.
Together, we can put support in the hands of first responders — when and where they need it most.
Voices from the Frontline
Real words from first responders and individuals we’ve supported
Your Support Saves Lives by Strengthening Connection
Suicide prevention does not happen by chance — it requires sustained investment in community, connection, and care.
Bellator Fortitudinem relies on the generosity of donors, partners, and funders to deliver peer-led recovery programs, education, referral pathways, and suicide prevention initiatives for first responders and frontline families across Australia.
Your support directly enables frontline workers to access safe, understanding, and life-saving support — often at the moments they need it most.
Together, we can ensure that those who protect us are never left without protection themselves.