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This is an unforgettable corporate team building experience in Sydney & Melbourne, offering team-building, problem-solving, and networking activities, whilst supporting vulnerable children and their families!

Meet our Barnardos Amazing Race hosts and your competitors at the starting point for a briefing and receive your first team clue. From there you and your colleagues will navigate through various team building challenges and tasks, spread across checkpoints on route to the final destination.

Teams must rely on their problem-solving skills, creativity, teamwork, and navigation abilities to complete each challenge successfully and progress to the next one. The race is completed on foot and covers approximately 3-5kms of total walking distance (approx. 2 hours), before concluding at a secret location, where the winning team will be announced and participants can debrief and mingle in a social setting.

Spots are limited, so seize this opportunity to encourage collaboration, critical thinking, and friendly competition among your departments, offices, and territories.

The Australian Mutuals Foundation is proud to be one of Barnardos Australia’s top corporate partners.

Volunteers from the Australian Mutuals Foundation had the exciting opportunity to accompany children from Barnardos Australia to the 2023 Sydney Special Children’s Christmas Party held at Rosehill Gardens on 6 December 2023.

The Australian Mutuals Foundation proudly supported the day with a total of 9 volunteers from Australian Mutual Bank, Unity Bank, First Choice Credit Union and G&C Mutual, providing assistance to a group of children supported by Barnardos Australia to enjoy a day of Christmas cheer.

At the event, the children were treated to a special day of live music, yummy food, fun rides, interactive games, face painting and many more activities. There was a special appearance from Santa and each child went home with a show bag and toy.

The Special Children’s Christmas Party aims to give marginalised children the chance to enjoy the magic of Christmas in a safe and welcoming environment. It provides a unique experience for children with special needs or those from disadvantaged circumstances who may otherwise miss out at Christmas time.

While the focus of the event is to provide a fun day out for the children and their families, it was also a heartwarming and rewarding experience for the volunteers who made a real difference and helped put smiles on the children’s faces.

The team at our Auburn Centre welcomed over one hundred children and parents to the Auburn Christmas Fair last week. Activities included children’s entertainment, games, dancing, a candy floss machine, and a special visit from Santa himself!

We’d like to extend a special thanks to Genevie Pham from Genesa, who led a group of volunteers and donors from Advanced Lending and Co, Global RE and An Viet Group. The group provided and wrapped Christmas gifts for all the children at the event, as well as those who were unable to attend. They also delivered and served delicious halal Vietnamese food and barbecued sausages for the children, parents, and staff.

Genevie and her associates connected with several of our Program Managers at the event and learnt about the support services that Barnardos Centres provide to local communities, which reinforced their pledge of support in the new year. We look forward to growing our partnership with the group and are excited about what we can achieve through this collaboration next year!

Last Friday, teams from Prime Video and Barnardos Australia went head-to-head to compete in the inaugural Barnardos Amazing Race event.

Despite the heat, participants worked together to complete tasks and activities that required skills in collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving.

Whilst both teams had fun throughout the afternoon, Prime Video were victorious and left the day with trophies to celebrate their win!

Prime Video launched their partnership with Barnardos earlier this year, with the Empower with Flowers campaign, in collaboration with Floraly. Prime Video provide generous support for our Domestic and Family Violence services and crisis accommodation.

Each year HSBC organises a wonderful Christmas party for the children from our Barnardos Yurungai Learning Centre – and this year was no different! When the children arrived at the Barangaroo Head Office, they were given the VIP treatment and escorted to a wonderfully decorated festive room. There they were served a delicious Christmas meal, cooked by the onsite chef, and received wonderful, personalised gifts.

HSBC have been partnering with Barnardos for over 20 years. Employees regularly volunteer their afternoons to attend one of our Centre’s Homework clubs, where they assist children with their schoolwork and literary and numeracy skills. This year HSBC also introduced a quarterly Homework Club at their Head Office, which not only supported children in their studies, but also provided them with the opportunity to experience the workplace and speak to staff about their roles, careers and education pathways. One of the children has regularly voiced his determination to become the CEO of HSBC – watch out Antony! 😉

Sandra Powell and Catherine Ellershaw have been volunteering at the Centre for many years and have developed strong bonds with the children and Program Managers. As such, they were able to identify personal gifts for the children at Christmas. We’d like to offer a special thanks to Sandra and Catherine for their commitment to the Yurungai Learning Centre and for making Christmas extra special this year!

Women’s Week Celebration (Sydney)

Friday 8^th of March 2024

This empowering community event focuses on educating and providing resources for women and girls who have experienced or are currently experiencing Domestic and Family Violence (DFV). We expect over 100 attendees.

The event will feature different educational workshops throughout the day around self-care activities, yoga sessions, garden picnic and service stalls offering a wealth of vital information and resources.

We are looking for a corporate sponsor to support this event. Your corporate donation will go towards the costs of running the event (eg: set-up, catering, self-care activities) and contribute to our DFV support services. We invite your employees to volunteer their time to help with activities and catering.

Please email partnerships@barnardos.org.au to explore this fantastic corporate sponsorship opportunity.