Minnie May Gates MBE aka Mrs Edmond Gates born Minnie May Forsyth (13 September 1878 – 30 August 1966) was an Australian community worker who helped create the Big Sister Movement and who was the treasurer of the National Council of Women in New South Wales.
[2] By the 1930s the ambition grew to open a hostel for women in Bligh Street in what is now the Sydney central business district.
[3] In 1941 she was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in recognition of her work with the Big Sister Movement and as treasurer of the New South Wales branch of the National Council of Women of Australia.
[4] Gates served on the Royal North Shore Hospital's board throughout the 1940s and 1950s (as her father and grandfather had done).
In 2018 it was distributing $500K to other community groups in Sutherland Shire which included money to assist the homeless.