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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.
Visit #Do More Together!-Sportsbet to see Sportsbet teammates in action and get inspired to make a difference.
Foodbank Melbourne
Time: 8:30am-2:30pm
Where: 441-459 Kororoit Creek RdAltona VIC 3018, Australia
Number of participants: 8-20 people or 6-10 people
About the charity:
Foodbank Australia is a charity that provides food relief to people in need. It is Australia's largest food relief organisation.
Volunteering experience:
Your team will be hands on in Foodbank Melbourne’s Yarraville or Brooklyn warehouses, helping pick and pack orders of pantry staples and fresh produce for distribution to their charity partners across Victoria.
Port Phillip Eco Centre
Where: 55A Blessington St, St Kilda VIC 3182
Number of participants: 20-60 people
About the charity:
The Port Phillip EcoCentre has been transforming the way Melbourne understands wildlife, waterways and climate change since 1999.
Volunteering experience:
You will be helping the Port Phillip EcoCentre and their project partners with litter collections, litter audits, and planting native vegetation to help restore biodiversity and protect urban wildlife.
Helping to remove invasive plant species and planting native vegetation helps combat erosion and creates healthy habitat for local wildlife species.
CERES
Where: Stewart St & Roberts St, Roberts St, Brunswick East VIC 3057
About the charity:
CERES is an environmental education centre, community garden, urban farm, and social enterprise hub spread across four locations, linked by the Merri and Darebin Creeks on Wurundjeri Country, Naarm (Melbourne).
Volunteering experience 1:
Time: 9:15 am-3:30 pm
Number of participants: 7-20 people
CERES Main site:
Get your hands dirty at CERES’ 10 acre organic farm, environmental education centre and, community hub in Brunswick East.
Volunteering experience 2:
Time: 9:15 am-1pm
Number of participants: 7-20 people
Joe's market garden:
Be a farmhand for the day on CERES’ urban farm on the bank of the Merri Creek in Coburg.
The Lost Dogs Home
Time: 9am-12pm or 12pm-3pm
Where: 2 Gracie St, North Melbourne VIC 3051
Number of participants: 10-15 people
About the charity:
The Lost Dogs Home cares for lost dogs, cats, and other companion animals. They reunite lost pets with their families, find new homes for others, and always seek the best possible outcomes for all animals that come into their care.
Volunteering experience:
The Lost Dogs Home’s corporate volunteering program involves helping various departments, which will be allocated according to the daily requirements of the shelter. This may involve helping their Facilities team in gardening and other maintenance tasks, or helping their Shelter teams prepare kits for their foster carers. They also set time aside to include some cuddles with animals in their care, which certainly is a highlight to everyone’s day!
Salvos Magpie Nest Cafe
Time: 8:15am-2pm
Where: 69 Bourke Street Melbourne Enter via Westwood Place Laneway, which runs alongside the building
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
Time: 9.30am-2pm or 10am-12pm
Where: 19/63-71 Bayfield Rd E, Bayswater
Number of participants: Up to 15 people
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: 9am-12:30pm, 1:15pm-5pm or 1:30pm-4pm
Where: 1-9 South Audley Street, Abbotsford
Number of participants: 16-25 people
About the charity:
Fareshare transforms rescued, donated, and 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 the 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 the 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 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 organisations 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: 10:30am-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
When: Flexible
Where: Lifeblood Donation centre, Level 1, 367 Collins Street, Melbourne
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, 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.
Empower Australia
Time: 8am-12pm or 1pm-3pm
Where: 412-430 City Rd, Southbank VIC 3006
Number of participants: 5-30 people or 2-5 people
About the charity:
Empower Australia’s main purpose is to serve and support vulnerable individuals within the community, empowering them to achieve their fullest potential and to be active contributors to society.
Volunteering experience:
Empower Australia offers a diverse range of activities including manual food handling/packing; preparing produce and food items for their Food Relief Centre recipients; inventory and stock management
Cancer Council Australia
Time: 9am-3:30pm
Where: VIC 3026
Number of participants: 2-8 People
About the charity:
Cancer Council Australia is a national, non-profit organisation dedicated to reducing the impact of cancer in Australia.
Volunteering experience:
The Team provides various services to the organisation including:
- Receipting and storage of bulk material (Retail stock, brochures, event
merchandise)
- Despatch Function (Picking and Packing)
- Bulk Mail Outs and Merchandise Kit preparation
- Reverse Logistics (event merchandise management)
- Logistics function (courier advice/assistance)
- Retail order picking and despatch.
ROOP
Time: 9.30am - 12.30pm or 1.pm - 4pm
Where: 15A/20 Commercial Road, Melbourne VIC 3004
Number of participants: Up to 20 people
About the charity:
Reading Out of Poverty (ROOP) is a Melbourne-based non-profit organization dedicated to improving early literacy in low-income communities. They aim to break the cycle of poverty by providing children with books, educational resources, and literacy support to build confidence and joy in reading
Volunteering experience:
Get involved in hands-on activities, including sorting books and packing literacy kits, which are gifted to families in need across Victoria. Each session runs for approximately 3 hours and is designed to be fun, engaging and rewarding for your team.
Our Village
Time: 9.30am - 4pm
Where: 14 Winterton Road, Clayton
Number of participants: 5-30 people
About the charity:
Our Village (formerly St Kilda Mums and Geelong Mums), relies on the support of donors and volunteers to provide essential items that keep babies and children safe. They work closely with social workers and maternal health nurses to support Victoria’s most at-risk families and prevent valuable nursery and children's items from ending up in landfill.
Volunteering experience:
This hands-on volunteering experience supports local families by helping prepare essential items for mothers, babies, and young children. Volunteers clean and assemble nursery equipment, pack clothing bundles, sort books and toys into activity kits, and prepare toiletry packs ready for distribution — making a direct, practical impact for families facing challenging circumstances while working collaboratively to support the community.
Yarra Riverkeeper
Where: Princes Bridge, or from South Yarra, Hawthorn or Templestowe & Princes Bridge
About the charity:
The Yarra Riverkeeper Association's mission is for a river that is Healthy, Protected and Loved. They believe that everyone has a contribution to make to improve the river.
Volunteering experience 1:
Time: 10am-12pm or 1pm-3pm
Number of participants: 20-50
Canoe on river Cleanup:
Canoe cleanups can start from the rowing sheds near Princes Bridge, or from South Yarra, Hawthorn, or Templestowe.
Volunteering experience 2:
Time: 10am-12pm or 1pm-3pm
Number of participants: 15-50
Walking Cleanup:
Walking litter cleanups meet in the city by the rowing sheds near Princes Bridge.
Do More Miles - World Cup Edition
Date: 1st - 31st of May
Charity: Australian Skin Cancer Foundation (ASCF)
Move more this May with Do More Miles – our virtual charity fitness and wellbeing challenge – as we tour the world’s World Cup locations together!
We’re setting off on a global journey inspired by the upcoming World Cup, and every kilometre logged moves us further along the route.
Choose your challenge distance then walk, run, cycle or wheel your way throughout May to complete it and earn a Do More Together medal.
- Sportsbet will donate $500 to the ASCF for every finisher.
- Team members can opt in to do their own personal fundraising for the ASCF.
- Anyone who completes the challenge is eligible to log 1 day of volunteer leave in lieu.
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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Contact: domore@sportsbet.com.au