Local non-profit Macquarie Home Stay (MHS) is asking growers across the region to make a "grain donation" to their 2025 Grain Drive.

For those who don't know, portions of grain post-harvest can be donated to support deserving local and non-profit organisations like MHS, simply by growers presenting the MHS NGR registration number at the time of donation.

Proceeds from the 2025 MHS Grain Drive will contribute to the third stage of the organisation's accommodation expansion, which will build five family units for the many patients with their families who travel to Dubbo from regional and remote communities for medical care.

Managing director Rod Crowfoot said these five family units will provide an important addition in support of families who stay, often for many weeks at a time.

"MHS provides essential and sometimes emergency medical accommodation for patients from throughout Western and Far Western NSW. Dubbo, for some, is the closest major hospital facility that caters for patients' medical needs," he said.

"These needs can include the safe delivery of babies and assistance for mums and their families, children requiring paediatric appointments or surgery and families coming together for a whole range of other medical treatments which can be achieved here in Dubbo."

Most patients access assistance through the NSW Government subsidy IPTAAS, reducing out of pocket costs for families for the time they are away from home, he added.

For more information on donating to the grain drive, contact Macquarie Home Stay.