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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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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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.

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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.

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