Skills-based volunteering allows Woodside employees the opportunity to give back to the community while also exercising, developing and improving their professional skills.
Northam Gun Club exists to provide a safe and enjoyable venue for social and competitive clay target shooting. They were seeking help to update and improve their website as they knew an enhanced website would encourage more people to join the club, learn more about clay target shooting and grow the sport overall.
Volunteering WA (VWA) is the peak body for volunteering in WA and sends teams of corporate volunteers out to volunteer at community organisations. Each year they send out 450+ Woodside staff on team days as well as hundreds of other corporate volunteers.
To support Red Cross volunteers at their Job Café, Red Cross wanted to run a ‘Preparing for Employment Project’ which would utilise the knowledge and expertise of a small team of corporate volunteers to teach Red Cross volunteers from a non-HR background about common themes and issues occurring in employment. This would better equip the Job Cafe volunteers with the skills and knowledge to better perform their roles and address client needs more effectively.
City West Lotteries House (CWLH) has a small team of three staff, two of which are part time receptionists. CWLH’s receptionists were using Excel at a basic level to calculate their end of month tenant charges and were keen to upskill staff so they could work more efficiently and consistently.