CORPORATE VOLUNTEER - 2014 NSW Corporate Volunteer of the Year Kate Boyle Employer: National Australia Bank (MLC) Kate volunteers with: Life Changing Experiences Foundation Inc Kate is the Chair of Life Changing Experiences Foundation, a service which helps Australia’s most marginalised girls grow into successful women. Kate originally started as a volunteer Big Sister for the SiSTER2sister program, which is the Foundation’s core initiative. The majority of girls needing mentors have suffered abuse or neglect and need a positive role model in their lives to help stop their downward spiral. She has been extremely dedicated to her Little Sister for the past 7 years despite many obstacles. Kate’s unwavering involvement has literally saved her Little Sister’s life and helped provide a safe environment for her Little Sister’s children to live. With Kate’s help, her Little sister is now studying and her two little girls are happily in Day Care. Kate’s Little Sister will be the first person in her family to study and work so this is a phenomenal result. Kate’s work did not stop at being a Big Sister, In 2008, Kate secured the pro bono services of Logicca to audit the organisations financial results, saving them $70,000. Kate is now leading the roll out of the charity to Victoria in 2015 and plans to take the highly successful SISTER2sister program to New Zealand. Kate has raised almost $100,000 for the Foundation over the past 7 years. She has been a key player in organising charity balls more than 500 guests. Kate has also played an integral part in launching the organisations first fundraising model called SASSI (Sisters Aiding the SISTER2Sister Initiative) where workplaces form a committee and raise fund for the program. Kate’s expertise has led to the charity winning the 2011 Sydney Business Awards in the Community and Social category and in 2013 the organisation won a national award for outstanding prevention initiative in the National Play your Part awards. WEB: www.volunteering.com.au | PH: 02 9261 3600 Level 3, 40 Gloucester St, The Rocks, NSW 2000 | ABN 28 002 416 024 CORPORATE VOLUNTEER TEAM- 2014 NSW Corporate Volunteer Team of the Year Tradies’ Volunteers Sutherland District Trades Union Club There are 94 members of the Tradies’ Volunteers team - which is 63% of all Tradies’ employees. As part of the volunteering program, staff are told about volunteering opportunities available and they can choose to help. Each week, the volunteers commit more than 20 hours to volunteering to Meals on Wheels, Joshua’s Kitchen, Dandelion Support Network, the local Blood Donor Centre café and the Carringbah Day Club. Staff wear their Tradies’ uniform while they volunteer and it makes both the team and the Club very proud. The Tradies’ volunteers use their own cars to deliver meals as part of the Meals on Wheels program. They deliver meals three days a week from 11.30am to 3.30pm. At Joshua’s Kitchen, a soup kitchen run by a local church, two volunteers spend two hours every Wednesday helping prepare, serve and clean up. Another two Tradies Volunteers spend time every Wednesday helping the Dandelion Support Network. This organisation collects clothes and equipment for babies and toddlers, including cots and car seats and delivers them to financially disadvantaged families in the local area. The Tradies’ volunteers spend 2-3 hours at the collection centre sorting through donations for packing so that deliveries can be made quickly to family. These are just some of the volunteer work the Tradies’ Volunteer Program does every week to help others in the Sutherland Shire community. WEB: www.volunteering.com.au | PH: 02 9261 3600 Level 3, 40 Gloucester St, The Rocks, NSW 2000 | ABN 28 002 416 024 .