In keeping with our new focus on measuring our community impact, we decided to review our charitable activities. This involved developing and launching a new charity strategy, coordinating our charity activities nationally, targeting shared value opportunities, and keeping employees more engaged and aware in the process.

The new strategy has allocated budgets for national and regional charity partners.

The new strategy has allocated budgets for national and regional charity partners (which will be reviewed every two years in alternate years), workplace giving, donation matching and crisis support (which this year included donating to emergency appeals for Vanuatu, Nepal and the NSW floods). We will also continue our partnership with the Property Industry Foundation (PIF) to keep youth off the streets.

To implement the strategy, we’ve also set up a new Charity Committee, made up of individuals across all areas of the business and all states, elected by the Executive Leadership Team.