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Let’s Make a Difference Together.
At Sportsbet, we’re all about backing the communities we’re part of. Through team volunteering we can Do More Together to give back all year round.
The OnHand team is available to help organise your next team volunteering activity – so simply select the experience that you’re interested in from the list below and click on the button to send an email,
stating your team size and preferred dates.
As a reminder, all Sportsbettors have two paid volunteer days each calendar year and we want to see as many of our
team members out supporting the community as possible. The OnHand team will take care of all the
arrangements, including payment of any fees associated with volunteering.
Watch your Sportsbet teammates in action and get inspired to make a difference.
Salvos Magpie Nest Cafe
Where: 69 Bourke Street Melbourne Enter via Westwood Place Laneway, which runs alongside the building
Time: 8:1 5am-2pm
Number of Participants: Up to 12 people
About the charity:
The Salvation Army’s Melbourne Project 614’s Magpie Nest Café provides free breakfast, lunch and hot drinks to people from all walks of life, especially those living on the margins of society.
Project 614 supports individuals who are experiencing homelessness, those suffering from serious mental health issues, people affected by a range of addiction issues and many suffering from social poverty.
The Salvation Army Melbourne Project 614 also works with clients to help create pathways out of their current state of marginalisation. These pathways include training, volunteering, employment and accommodation options.
Volunteering Experience:
Teams of enthusiastic, 'can-do' volunteers undertake tasks including table service, taking and delivering orders, preparing tea & coffee, plating meals & basic food prep, welcoming clients, clearing & wiping down tables, washing dishes and assisting with end of day cleaning.
Pinchapoo
Where: 19/63-71 Bayfield Rd E, Bayswater VIC 3153
Number of Participants: Up to 15 people
Time: 9.30am - 2pm or 10am - noon
About the charity:
Pinchapoo (slang for Pinch-a-shampoo) is a cheeky hotel toiletry ‘pinching’ movement. Since inception in 2009, they have redistributed more than 11 million personal hygiene products in partnership with leading organisations, community groups and government institutions to hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged men, women and children nationally each year.
Volunteering Experience:
Spend the day at PooHQ packing personal hygiene packs at the warehouse.
West Sunshine Warehouse
Time: 10am -2pm
Where: Unit 6, 42-46 Vella Drive
West Sunshine
Number of Participants: 6-13 people
About the charity:
Welcome West Wagon supports people seeking asylum and refugees to rebuild their lives by providing white goods, furniture, appliances, food, and clothing to enable them to establish a comfortable home. Since inception in 2014 they have helped thousands of people seeking asylum and refugees.
Volunteering Experience:
Sorting donations, picking and packing for clients, assembling furniture and *wrapping Christmas presents for clients.
Fareshare Abbotsford Kitchen
Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm, 1:15pm – 5:00pm or 1:30pm – 4:00pm
Where: 1-9 South Audley Street, Abbotsford
Number of Participants: 16-25 people
About the charity:
FareShare transforms rescued, donated and our homegrown food into millions of delicious, healthy meals for Australians experiencing hardship. Their healthy meals are given away free to frontline charities such as soup vans, homeless shelters, women’s refuges, First Nations organisations and groups providing disaster relief.
Volunteering experience:
Meal preparation and production - volunteer crews will be involved in various kitchen tasks including food preparation and cooking and packing meals at scale.
Clean Up Australia
Where: Various Locations
Number of Participants: No limit
About the charity:
Clean Up Australia inspires and mobilises communities
to improve and conserve our environment,
eliminate litter and end waste. More than 22 million Aussies have participated in Clean Up Australia activities and events over the past three decades. Over that time the organisation has evolved to provide practical solutions to help all Australians live more sustainably every day of the year and today their focus is as much on preventing rubbish entering our environment as it is removing what has already accumulated.
Volunteering experience:
Organise your own suitable location, day and time; register your event on line (can register for multiple sites) via the Clean Up Australia website and receive a kit for up to 10 staff including gloves and materials to help guide event
Join a Clean Up event: register to online via the Clean Up Australia website to join an existing event.
Greyhound Adoption Program (GAP)
Time: 10am -2pm
Where: 298 Goulburn Valley Hwy
Seymour
Number of Participants: 5-10 people
About the charity:
The Greyhound Adoption Program (GAP) finds loving family homes for retired greyhounds. Established in 1996 by two veterinary nurses, GAP is owned and managed by Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV) and is the largest greyhound rehoming agency in Australia. It operates out of a facility in Seymour, located 90 minutes north of Melbourne’s CBD (NB. there is also an adoption centre located in Tullamarine, but that does not offer corporate volunteering).
Volunteering experience:
Spend time walking, grooming and cuddling greyhounds at the GAP Seymour facility.
Meals With Impact
Time: 10am -2pm
Where: Meals with Impact Café Shop 1-2/747 Collins Street Docklands
Number of Participants: 10-13 People
About the charity:
Meals with Impact is a work-integrated social enterprise that empowers women from refugee and migrant backgrounds to
find meaningful employment through food and opportunity. As a secondary purpose, they also provide culturally appropriate food relief to support food insecure
communities across Melbourne.
Volunteering experience:
From ingredient processing through to the final product seal. This is an engaging team building experience, fun & impactful with the bonus of skill development working alongside
qualified chefs
Food For Change
Time: 10am -2pm
Where: The Briars, 450 Nepean Highway, Mt Martha
Number of Participants: Up to 20 people
About the charity:
The Food For Change Mornington Peninsula Farm grows fresh food for those in need locally and across Victoria, supplying Peninsula and Frankston organizations and sharing big harvests with Secondbite to feed communities statewide.
Volunteering experience:
Depending on the season, a day at the farm could include a range of tasks such as harvesting crops, weeding, mulching, planting seeds or seedlings, building & preparing veggie beds and general farm maintenance. They have BBQ facilities available at request and the farm itself is a beautiful setting for a corporate day.
Cooking For a Cause
Time: 9am - 12pm or 1pm - 4pm
Where: Unit 3, 49 Bertie Street Port Melbourne
Number of Participants: 8-30 People
About the charity:
OzHarvest, Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, drives its mission to “Nourish our Country” by saving 250 tonnes of food weekly from 2,600 donors and delivering it to 1,500 charities, while fighting food waste, feeding those in need, educating the nation, and pushing to halve Australia’s food waste by 2030.
Volunteering experience:
A unique team building activity where OzHarvest chefs teach participants zero-waste cooking skills, while you transform rescued ingredients into gourmet meals to support vulnerable communities.
DV Collective domestic violence support
Time: 10.30pm - 2.30pm or 10am - 2pm
Where: Seaford or Brunswick
Number of Participants: 8-10 people
About the charity:
The DV Collective unites Australia’s domestic violence support services, providing urgent crisis aid, safe housing, and recovery resources, while partnering with frontline groups and communities to ensure every woman and child gets help when they need it most.
Volunteering experience:
DV Collective has a range of team volunteering opportunities with domestic violence support agencies, including ‘Pick and Pack’ – helping assemble kits containing the essentials, for mums and kids fleeing domestic violence in a hurry; ‘Assemble the goods’ – sorting, organising and preparing new and pre-loved household goods to furnish a home for women fleeing crisis accommodation … and more.
Lifeblood
Where: Lifeblood Donation centre, Level 1, 367 Collins Street, Melbourne
Time: Flexible
Number of Participants: No limit
About the charity:
Lifeblood collects, processes and delivers lifesaving blood, plasma, platelets and stem cell donations, ensuring hospitals around the country have the critical supplies they need to save lives every day.
Volunteering experience:
Book in for your team to donate blood or plasma together – when doing so a reminder to ask to be registered under the Sportsbet ‘team’ so that we can capture the impact of your donations.
Living Legends
Where: Woodlands Dr, Greenvale (next to Tullamarine Airport)
Number of Participants: Up to 20 people
About the charity:
Living Legends is Australia’s premier retirement home for champion racehorses, providing them with a dignified and comfortable life after their racing careers end.
Volunteering experience:
Your day at Living Legends will feature a range of activities to help maintain the property, including fence work, painting fences/stables/horse jumps, tree planting and other gardening work, helping with the new cross country course and more. The day can also include horse brushing for those happy to work up close with the horses.
Is there something you're interested in arranging that isn’t listed here? Just email groupvolunteering@beonhand.co.uk with the details and the OnHand team will investigate this for you.
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Lead: Nerida Crake
Contact: nerida.crake@sportsbet.com.au