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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.
Dignity (NSW)
About the charity:
By keeping people, families, and community at the heart of everything Dignity do, and providing essential services such as a safe place, nourishing food, new clothes, and education, they walk alongside people on their journey back “home”.
Volunteering experience 1:
Where: Capmbelltown, NSW 2560
Number of participants: 10
Cook4Dignity:
Gather the team and join them on-site for the day to volunteer your time cooking nourishing meals. Corporate volunteering provides a memorable team building experience, while presenting an opportunity to learn more about homelessness in Australia and make a tangible impact. Help them support people at risk of or experiencing homelessness by preparing delicious and nutritious home cooked meals using produce recovered by their charity partners at Ozharvest and SecondBite.
Volunteering experience 2:
Where: Greenacre NSW 2190 (can also be done in-office)
Number of Participants: 10-20
Pack4Dignity:
Strengthen team connections by rolling up your sleeves and helping Dignity pack food relief hampers and essential care packs for individuals and families doing it tough. This is a powerful way to give back as a team, with your volunteering efforts directly supporting their guests and people in the community with the essential items they need most.
Foodbank NSW & ACT
About the charity:
Foodbank is the largest hunger relief charity in Australia. They are the pantry to the charity sector, linking surplus food and groceries to people in need.
Volunteering experience 1:
Where: West Sydney, NSW 2761
Number of participants: 10-32
Pick/Pack:
Your team will be based on their warehouse floor, packing vital food orders that go out to our communities and schools to feed people doing it tough every day. (e.g. our community partners have ordered items from the warehouse, and volunteers go to the shelves to collect those items and then pack them on a pallet for them to deliver to the agency).
Volunteering experience 2:
Where: West Sydney, NSW 2761
Number of participants: 10-23
Food Rescue:
Your team will be helping them label and package a range of grocery items that would otherwise have gone to waste, making quality food available to those who need it most in our communities. (e.g. a truck full of loose produce {potatoes, cucumbers, oranges, etc} is donated and the charity needs to bag them to 2kg weights. Or pallets of an item has a missing ingredient on the label, so the team would then place new labels on them so they can be distributed to Foodbank’s community partners.)
Volunteering experience 3:
Where: West Sydney, NSW 2761
Number of participants: 10-30
Warehouse Support:
Based on the needs of the warehouse, your team will be doing either of the tasks as listed above (Pick/Pack, Food Rescue) for the other days of the week.
Our Big Kitchen
Where: Bondi, NSW 2026
Number of participants: 8-80
About the charity:
Our Big Kitchen is a community kitchen that inspires individuals to come together to help others. With your help, they prepare and distribute more than 250,000 meals each year, support 33+ charities, and help thousands of individuals.
Volunteering experience:
During group volunteering events, you’ll have the opportunity to cook alongside your peers, and package meals together for people experiencing food insecurity.
Through cooking and packaging meals, your team will take part in a meaningful experience together. You will hear inspiring stories from those benefiting from the meals you have made, giving your team a sense of humility and fulfilment.
IndigiGrow
Where: Kurnell, NSW 2231
Number of participants: 8-50
About the charity:
IndigiGrow specialises in propagation and growing of Australian native edible plants in the critically endangered Eastern Suburbs Banksia Scrub (ESBS).
Volunteering experience:
Volunteering activities could include:
• IndigiGrow cultural talk
• Potting up
• Propagating plants and seeds
• Weeding and mulching
• Maintenance in our bushfood farm
• Watering and fertilising plants and gardens
• ESBS education park restoration
Sydney City Farm
About the charity:
Sydney City Farm is an urban agriculture project in Sydney Park, connecting the city with the country.
Volunteering experience 1:
Where: 52 Barwon Park Rd, St Peters NSW 2044, Australia
Number of participants: 7-20
Working Bee:
This 2.5 hour hands-on experience begins with a tour of the farm followed by supervised farm activities tailored to your group. These could include planting out cropping beds, working in the orchard, propagating plants in the nursery, weeding, harvesting food, feeding the worm farm, learning about beneficial insects, or seed saving.
Volunteering experience 2:
Where: NSW 2044
Number of Participants: 7-20
Urban Farm Immersive:
This 3.5 hour urban farm immersive experience starts with a tour of the farm followed by supervised farm activities tailored to your group. These could include working on cropping beds, in the orchard or nursery. The session could also include weeding, harvesting food, tending to the worm farm, learning about insects or saving seeds.
Oz Harvest ‘Cooking For a Cause’ & ‘Waterloo Market’
Time: Monday-Friday, 9am-12pm or 1pm-4pm
Where: Warehouse G3/G4, 46-62 Maddox St Alexandria
Number of participants: 8-80 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:
‘Cooking for a Cause’ – 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; ‘Waterloo Market’–volunteers help to replenish shelves, chat with patrons, and provide customer service to the market’s 200+ daily customers. It's a great way to experience firsthand the community that has been built around this innovative space.
Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation
Time: Weekdays, 9:30am-3pm
Where: Randwick Sydney Children's Hospital
Number of participants: Up to 8 people
About the charity:
Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation is a charity dedicated to ensuring that all children have access to the best possible healthcare, regardless of their circumstances.
Volunteering experience:
Volunteers will help facilitate art stations in the hospital foyers and distribute activity packs to patients in wards.
DV Collective domestic violence support
Where: Penhurst & Taren Point
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 Centres – Sydney CBD and suburbs
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.
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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Lead: Nerida Crake
Contact: domore@sportsbet.com.au