Team Based Success Stories

Woodside Logistics at Meerilinga (Woodvale)

Meerilinga’s Woodvale centre heard of the news that there were Woodside teams eager to lend a helping hand to the community and decided to seize the opportunity and host the logistics team for their team volunteering day. The staff and children of the Meerilinga Woodvale centre had put a wish list of various projects they wanted done which the Woodside team were eager to help with! The day ended with the children and volunteers getting together to celebrate the new space by planting plants in the relocated garden bed. The children yelled out a big thank you to the team and really enjoyed watched the team in red transform their playground.

Mixed team at Ride to Conquer Cancer (Event Set Up)

A call out was put out to Woodside employers to help with the setup of the Ride to Conquer fundraising event. The MACA Ride to Conquer Cancer is a cycling journey, a fundraising crusade, an event in which Woodside is proud to be a part of. Spread over two days and 200 kilometres, riders take to Perth’s majestic countryside in solidarity and promise to show that cancer is no match against their conviction to conquer it. Riders join a team raise funds to help benefit Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. The team of 7 traded their morning in the office to help set up the sign in and registration tents by setting up tables, taping table cloths to the tables, hanging up signs and posters, setting up the street fencing and setting up the water stations.

PICOT at Friends of Yellagonga Regional Park

A large group of 33 volunteers from PICOT (Process, Instrument, Controls and Operations Technology) team came together to volunteer with Friends of Yellagonga (FOY). The motivation for the team volunteering day was to give back to the community while building their relations between each other. The team also wanted to focus on inclusion and diversity and connection to the land. Seeing as the team were about to move into Woodside’s new campus Mia Yellagonga, it seemed fitting to support an organisation who focus on conserving, rehabilitating and protecting Yellagonga Regional Park. FOY formed in 1993 and works in tandem with the Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPAW). The group are a group of local enthusiastic conservation volunteers who desire to protect and restore the bio-diversity of Perth’s northern suburbs regional parks for current and future generations to enjoy. Yellagonga regional park covers 13 Kilometres including, 3,500 acres of land and 1,400 acres of wetlands which include; Lake Joondalup, Beenup Swamp, Walluburnup Swamp and Lake Goolllelal.

AOU/FPSO at Dismantle

The AOU and FPSO were the first group from Woodside to volunteer with Dismantle - a local organisation aiming to mentor at risk youth through the use of bike mechanics workshops. Dismantle’s aims to enable and empower vulnerable young people to live their life in a self-directed way. One of Dismantles main initiatives is BikeRescue, a dynamic youth development program that uses hands-on skill-building to engage and mentor young people in need of support. BikeRescue builds knowledge, social skills, confidence and teamwork through various mechanical and mentoring activities. During BikeRescue, participants fully strip and rebuild two bikes each. The first is donated to charity, which earns them the second one to customise and keep for themselves.