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NAB partners with hundreds of community organisations to help us provide meaningful volunteering opportunities to our employees who can through their volunteering make a real difference to communities across Australia. Some of our partners are featured below.
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Conservation Volunteers
Since 2004 NAB has partnered with Conservation Volunteers. Hundreds of NAB employees have volunteered on environmental programs across Australia as part of their two days of volunteer leave.
CVA is a not-for-profit, non-political, independent and community-based organisation that manages community involvement in almost 1,500 conservation projects across Australia each year. Activities include tree planting, endangered flora and fauna surveys and walking track construction.
Activities are offered by CVA to our people every month. All activities are managed by trained environmentalists who provide employees with a briefing on the ecology of the area.
Visit: Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA)
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Oxfam
Each year NAB provides volunteers for Oxfam's Trailwalker fundraiser event in Melbourne and Sydney.
Oxfam Australia is an Australian, independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organisation. Oxfam Australia works in partnership with the Australian community to enable poor and marginalised people to control their own development, achieve equitable treatment, exercise their basic rights, and ensure the environment is healthy and sustainable.
Oxfam Australia works in 29 countries in partnership with local communities to overcome poverty and injustice through long-term development projects. During emergency situations Oxfam Australia also works closely with other Oxfams to provide humanitarian assistance. Oxfam Australia is also heavily involved in campaigning for a more just world, campaigning to address the root causes of poverty and injustice.
Visit: Oxfam Trailwalker
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The Royal Agricultural Society of NSW (RAS)
RAS is one of Australia's oldest and most respected institutions, renowned for staging the Sydney Royal Easter Show which is Australia's largest annual celebration and one of the world's great events. The RAS also manages the Sydney Showground exhibition venue at Sydney Olympic Park, amongst other activities.
Having been founded by volunteers as a not-for-profit organisation over 185 years ago, the RAS has always relied on the skills, expertise and resources donated by the wider community to meet its charter of developing Australian agriculture through staging competitions and events and promoting agricultural education. NAB volunteers play an integral role in the success of the RAS and the Show.
Visit: 2008 Sydney Royal Easter Show
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One Umbrella
One Umbrella and NAB volunteers will feed thousands of homeless people in Melbourne this year.
The bank has a formal volunteering partnership with the charity which collects unwanted food from butchers, bakers, caterers, manufacturers and markets and turns it into nutritious meals for the homeless and hungry of the city.
Each year 500 NAB volunteers will work with the charity to prepare food ready for distribution to 40 welfare agencies including soup vans and crisis centres. In the last 12 months the organisation provided 420,000 meals and from 140 tonnes of food that would have ended up in landfill.
Visit: One Umbrella
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Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service
Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service works side by side with people who are disadvantaged or oppressed in any way. It provides a range of services from family counselling to supported accommodation for the homeless, from 'no interest' loans to teenage foster care and from financial counselling to emergency housing for victims of domestic violence.
NAB offers volunteers to assist Good Shepherd Youth & Family Service employees with coaching in basic computer skills, budgeting and planning assistance, office administration and assistance with the No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) loan assessments.
Visit: Good Shepherd Youth and Family Service
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Royal Melbourne Show
Victoria’s largest and longest running annual public entertainment event, The Royal Melbourne Show has been an icon in Victoria’s annual events calendar for 150 years. Providing a vital link between city and country, the Show provides visitors with an unparalleled opportunity to experience the very best Victoria has to offer in a variety of areas including entertainment, agricultural competitions and displays, leisure and lifestyle activities, food, wine, and commercial pursuits.
NAB provides volunteers for a range of activities, including participation in the popular NAB Animal Nursery Discovery Farm, a wide range of animal competitions, art and craft and customer service for Show patrons.
Visit: Royal Melbourne Show
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