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2015_Sustainability_Review
2015_Sustainability_Review
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Better Communities<br />
EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERING<br />
Our businesses provide financial donations<br />
to local charity and community groups, aligning<br />
with causes that reflect our business objectives<br />
and employees’ wishes.<br />
Every Brambles employee is entitled to three days of volunteer leave per<br />
year to community‐based not-for-profit, educational and environmental<br />
organisations.<br />
During the year, more than 1,400 employees volunteered more than 12,500<br />
hours, an increase of approximately 10% from FY14. Some examples of<br />
volunteer activity include:<br />
• Food bank activities<br />
• Enactus projects<br />
• Environmental activities such as Clean Up Australia Day<br />
• Tree planting for National Tree Day in Australia and Tree Canada events<br />
• Educational mentoring<br />
• Literacy programs<br />
• Career days for school students<br />
• After school programs and other community events<br />
1,400<br />
employees volunteered more than<br />
12,500 hours<br />
10% increase from FY14<br />
Gary Ziebell, CHEP<br />
service centre manager in<br />
Wodonga, Australia, uses<br />
end-of-life pallet timber<br />
to create bird boxes for<br />
native birds with the local<br />
community group Men’s<br />
Shed and school.<br />
CHEP provides financial support through our Helping Hand program<br />
to purchase nails and glue. Gary uses his volunteer leave to coordinate<br />
the project. So far, the completed bird boxes have been provided<br />
to local schools, environment groups and Birdlife Australia for their<br />
Birds in Backyards program.<br />
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