Team-Based Success Stories

Team-based volunteering is a fun, interesting and meaningful way for Woodside employees to engage with each other in non-traditional settings outside the office. It also gives teams the opportunity to support community organisations by completing a worthwhile project that will last well beyond their single volunteer day.

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Engineering at Native ARC

Native ARC welcomed 17 volunteers from the Engineering team on a lovely November morning. The team were treated to a brief site tour and induction, where they met birds, reptiles, roos, Vinnie the wombat and the dingo pups. After the meet and greet the team were shown the day to day tasks that the regular Native ARC volunteers carry out. The tour provided the team with an opportunity to get a feel for the site, it helped to create an awareness and understanding of who they would be supporting on the day – the animals and Native ARC’s regular volunteers! Dean, Manager of Native ARC emphasised that as the regular volunteers are occupied carrying out the day to day tasks, they often don’t have the time (or skills) to execute the bigger projects work. This is why teams like Woodside are highly valuable over the past 4 years by Native ARC.

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FIFO at Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group

A large crew from the Front line FIFO team were for the first time out at the same site at the same time! This time the site was located south of Perth within the Armadale –Gosnells region and the mission for the day was to support Armadale Gosnells Landcare Group plant as many native seedlings in the wetland area within a few hours. The team chucked on their gardening gloves, grabbed a bucket, filled it with seedlings and dispersed throughout the wetland area. The area was still wet and muddy from the recent months of rain, which made it easy to plant in but very tricky to walk through. Unfortunately no team members lost the balance or slipped as they were all to focus on getting as many plants in the ground as they could

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RESM Forecasting at Bicycles for Humanity

Six people from the RESM forecasting team arrived at the Bicycles for Humanity workshop ready to learn about how B4H help reduce waste by restoring, fixing and pulling apart bicycles. While B4H’s regularly volunteers arrived and propped themselves up at their stations with a bike and their tools, Jamie provided the team with a background of the WA chapter of Bicycles for humanity. He explained how corporate teams like Woodside together with regular volunteers, school groups and work for the dole volunteers assist B4H achieve their goal of supporting a community in Namibia which is where the B4H social enterprise is set up.

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AOU at Homeless Connect Warehouse

A small group from the AOU team visited the Homeless Connect Warehouse to help sort through donations for Homeless Connect Perth. The day started off with Volunteering WA’s CEO Tina Williams welcoming the team at the warehouse and providing the team with a background of HC and its importance to the less privileged. Homeless Connect, a one day event based on a one-stop-shop model of immediate service provision to homeless people, has been held over the last ten years. It connects government agencies, the corporate and community sectors, and volunteers in providing a diverse range of free essential services to people experiencing homelessness.

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