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Thanks A Million to our volunteers!

Thanks a Million!

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National Volunteer Week is Australia’s largest celebration of volunteers. Today there are over 6 million people volunteering annually in Australia, representing 36% of the adult population.

Eastern Volunteers is hosting a luncheon to celebrate the contribution of our volunteers.  Our volunteers provide administration support and transport, providing inclusiveness for vulnerable members of our community.

Volunteering is a great way to learn new skills, meet new people and achieve positive community outcomes.

A selection of recent Corporate Volunteering Activities

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A selection of Corporate Volunteering Days organised by Eastern Volunteers.

  1. Irabina Autism Childhood Services with an extensive gardening working bee. Volunteers also got to work alongside some autistic children at the same time.
  2. Animal Aid shelter for cats and dogs. Duties included walking and grooming cats and dogs, helping out at the vet clinic and cleaning of kennels.
  3. Donwood Community Aged Care facility by painting a 50m paling fence. The aged care residents loved the new fence as it gave the centre a real facelift.
  4. Chirnside Park Community Centre with a ‘Backyard Blitz’ of their garden. Duties included cutting back and clearing overgrown shrubs, extensive weeding, pruning, mulching etc.
  5. Monkami centre to help with painting their centre
  6. The RSL to help prepare for their Anzac Day appeal.
  7. Breastscreen Victoria helped to clear the overgrown garden in preparation for a new ‘zen’ garden. This new zen garden will be a quiet space for women coming to terms with their cancer diagnosis.
  8. Melba Support Services with a general ‘Spring clean’ working bee. A group of Yarra Valley Water staff travelled up the mountain to Mt Evelyn to help.
  9. Salvation Army with a working bee at one of their community centres.
  10. Fundraising e.g. shaking a tin at the Melbourne and Caulfield Cup races, at CBD train stations, busy intersections or door knocking to help raise money for charity.
Staff from MEGT volunteering for the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal

MEGT Volunteers for the Red Shield Appeal

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Some employees from MEGT were given the opportunity to volunteer for The Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal.

Staff from MEGT volunteering for the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal

Staff from MEGT volunteering for the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal

Over two days, twelve employees went around the streets of Ringwood and Heathmont door knocking and collecting money for The Salvation Army. They managed to cover a huge area of the suburbs and in doing so collected well over fifteen hundred dollars. It was great to have them help out and it will definitely make a huge impact in the lives of people who are in need of assistance in their lives.

MEGT collecting donations for the Salvation Army The Red Shield Appeal

MEGT collecting donations for the Salvation Army The Red Shield Appeal

Each year The Salvation Army helps thousands of people in the city of Maroondah with assistance in many different ways. Every single dollar goes a huge way to impacting somebodies life.

The staff of MEGT definitely helped The Salvation Army to continue to provide help and support for those in our community who need it the most. They cannot be thanked enough for the effort and enthusiasm that they put in over the two days that they helped us out.

Employees from Cummins Box Hill at Tarralye

Cummins Box Hill Volunteering Day at Taralye Centre of Learning for Deaf Children

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Some of the employees from Cummins Box Hill had the opportunity to volunteer 50 hours of work to Taralye Learning Centre for Deaf Children located in Blackburn. Taralye’s mission is to partner with families, other providers and the community to improve the linguistic, educational and social outcomes of deaf children by promoting early diagnosis and response to hearing loss through innovative early childhood intervention services, research and advocacy.

Employees from Cummins Box Hill at Tarralye

Employees from Cummins Box Hill at Tarralye

Cummins believes a company is only as healthy as the communities where we do business. Corporate Responsibility is one of Cummins’ six core values: serving and improving the communities in which we live. Improving our communities implies a broader level of involvement, engaging in dialogue around problems, building coalitions around solutions and giving resources and skills to build the capability of our communities.

With the help of Eastern Volunteers and the Cummins Box Hill Community Involvement Committee, ten employees volunteered to assist Taralye with a mail out for one of their major annual fundraising events. The Cummins employees sorted, folded and enveloped a total of 3500 newsletters, providing a saving of around $2000 to Taralye. Staff at Taralye were wonderfully warm and welcoming and very accommodating. The extent of their generous hospitality was evident when the Cummins employees were given a private tour of the centre by the CEO and enjoyed home baked cupcakes for morning tea!

The Cummins Box Hill Community Involvement Team looks forward to a continued relationship with Taralye Learning Centre.

Employees from Cummins with the finished newsletters prepared for Tarralye

Employees from Cummins with the finished newsletters prepared for Tarralye

Whitehorse Volunteer Expo 2012

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