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.
For the fourth year in a row the Drilling and Completions team headed out to Kalamunda to help repair and maintain mountain bike trails. Many of the volunteers from this group frequent the tracks and what better way to spend their volunteering day but to repair the trails they use!
The Drilling and Completions team visited the North Perth Community Garden for the second year in a row. The community garden serves to promote gardening within the City of Vincent by providing garden bed lots for hire, workshops on gardening and a warm and welcoming environment to meet people. The team assisted by helping build shade cloth structures, oiling fences and posts, propagating plants and pulling the leaves off fruit trees.
The projects team enjoyed a day at Juniper Rowethorpe helping to sand and oil tables, working with residents to create house numbers, knitting and crocheting squares to make quilts, as well as weeding and doing some pruning in the gardens. The day finished off with a BBQ and a game of lawn bowls. The team described the day as “rewarding”, “uplifting”, “awesome” and providing multiple opportunities for “great team work”.
The Audit team visited Kanyana Wildlife on a very sunny and pristine day in March. Kanyana Wildlife is located in Lesmurdie and is a not for profit organisation committed to the protection and welfare of native wildlife. The centre has a purpose built hospital and training and education centre. It is run by volunteers from the local community who provide for all of the needs of the animals and the operation of the centre.