Heartbeat December 2023 Edition
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Heartbeat September 2022
Welcome to the fourth edition of the HBCF Heartbeat. We are proud to report a lot of great stuff has happened since our last edition in March on our journey to growing stronger communities together.
In this edition:
November 2021
Our grants are open!
We’re excited to announce that the Charitable Foundation’s third round of grants is now open! The total amount to be given out in grants will be $85,000.
The grant funds are to be used to support the overall costs of a specific program that has a proven track record of creating impact in one of our three focus areas:
- Positive educational and alternative pathways to help at-risk children and teenagers;
- Health care services for vulnerable Australians and their families; and
- Support for the economic and social wellbeing of people in regional, rural and remote communities, including in times of natural disasters.
For more information on the grant process please visit our Apply page. If you have a charity you’d like to encourage to apply, please share this newsletter with them.
Workplace Giving
We marked Heritage Bank's Our Shout Workplace Giving Team reaching 100+ donors!
This generous group from Heritage now donates about $24,000 per year to the Foundation through their payroll donations. The generosity doesn’t stop there as Heritage Bank matches all workplace giving donations from team members.
Thanks to the awesome members of Team Our Shout, the Foundation will grow by at least $48,000 this financial year due to Workplace Giving!
PHOTO: Heritage Workplace Givers Judith, Jen and Marie celebrating in style!
Business of Beef
Our Business of Beef Fundraising Lunch was a huge success!
Thanks to the very generous support of everyone in the room we raised over $14,500 to assist the Foundation further support our charity partners.
What made this event even more special is that all our wonderful prizes were 100% donated – a true example of the community coming together. Many thanks to:
- Mort & Co
- The Blyth Family
- Stone & Wood Brewing
- Port Office Hotel
We would also like to thank our fantastic guest speakers Carly Fradgely, Baby Give Back CEO and Charlie Mort, Executive Chairman Mort & Co.
PHOTOS:
1. Carly Fradgely (Baby Give Back)
2. Charlie Mort (Mort & Co) and Paul Olds (Heritage Bank Charitable Foundation)
Volunteering
Heritage Bank team members have been nice and busy volunteering for the Foundation’s charity partners. They hit the phones to help Hummingbird House, Gold Coast Hospital Foundation and Wishlist raise much needed funds at their Giving Days.
The Member Experience Leadership Team supported Baby Give Back by packing 20 Safe Start boxes. Each Safe Start box contains essential items for newborns and their mums packed beautifully and gifted to them when they leave hospital.
The Baby Give Back team were super organised, engaging, and so appreciative to have the support of extra hands on deck. The Heritage volunteers relished the chance to give back, and be a part of the hugely positive impact this charity makes in the community.
Weis Community Fund Grant
It was great to have Unilever with us in Toowoomba to announce the two charities who shared in $25,000 as beneficiaries of the inaugural round of Weis Community Fund grants.
Funded by Unilever and administered by the Heritage Bank Charitable Foundation, the Weis Community Fund helps charitable organisations build a stronger and more resilient Darling Downs region.
The inaugural grants were awarded to:
Both organisations have a strong track record of supporting and encouraging participants of their programs to be productive and valued members of the Darling Downs community.
PHOTOS:
1. Paul Olds (HBCF), Phillipa Woodhill (ARLF), Vivienne Johnson (ARLF), Nicky Sparshott (Unilever) and Annie Lucchitti (Unilever) and Bill Armagnacq (HBCF)
2. Ricky Adams (The Mulberry Project), Greg Johnson (The Mulberry Project), Bronwyn Herberton (The Mulberry Project), Nicky Sparshott (Unilever), Annie Lucchitti (Unilever) and Paul Olds (HBCF)
Run the Range
A massive thanks to everyone in Team HBCF for their amazing efforts in completing Run the Range. The conditions made it a very cold, wet, muddy and slippery track. The team spirit was amazing and it was great to see so much HBCF purple (under the mud) out on the track! Together, the team raised over $2,600 to support the Foundation's amazing charity partners.
GIVIT Donation
Thanks to the generosity of Heritage members and staff, the Foundation was able to donate an additional $17,127 to GIVIT ’s Storm and Flood Appeal on top of our original $105,000 donation.
We were delighted that we could hold the cheque presentation at Heritage's Morayfield branch as it was Morayfield who raised the most money for the Appeal.
By coming together we have provided immediate and meaningful support to those affected by this devastating natural disaster.
We were delighted that we could hold the cheque presentation at Heritage's Morayfield branch as it was Morayfield who raised the most money for the Appeal.
By coming together we have provided immediate and meaningful support to those affected by this devastating natural disaster.
PHOTO: Mat, Samantha, Tankia and Temiah (GIVIT)
Community at Heart Appeal
Growing stronger communities is at the very heart of what the Foundation was set up to achieve.
To help celebrate this, we launched the first “Community at Heart Appeal” which will become an annual event
The inaugural Community at Heart Appeal supported Foundation charity partner The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation and its Share-A-Book Program. Share-A-Book provides new and quality pre-loved books to Indigenous, refugee and marginalised communities in need of resources.
It was great to have the support of the Heritage Bank team with all branches acting as collection points.
We're thrilled to reveal we collected over 700 children’s books, which are now headed for a remote Indigenous school in far north Western Australia who are desperate for books to start their Share-A-Book library.
PHOTO: Sophie, Kia, Paul (HBCF), Harry and John from Heritage Bank Maroochydore Branch
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Fourth grant round opens with $137,000 on offer
The People First Bank Charitable Foundation offered a massive total of $137,000 in funding for eligible charities for this round, including one new grant worth $50,000.
Weis Community Fund makes a lasting leadership impact
The desire to speak English more fluently led to a massive leap from Colombia, South America to Australia for Diana Sanchez and her husband.
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Our 2023 Community At Heart Appeal begins on 10 July
We supported Zephyr Education by collecting lunchboxes and water bottles for children in need.
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Weis Community Fund offers $37,000 in grant funding
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Heartbeat March 2023 Edition
Read our latest edition of the Heartbeat newsletter to see what's been happening at the Foundation.
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Our Annual Review for 2021/2022
Learn about the activities and initiatives we supported in the 2021/2022 financial year.
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Women & Change finds new home
People First Bank Charitable Foundation supported Women & Change – Queensland’s original giving circle.
People First Foundation Limited ATF People First Bank Foundation ABN 79 297 317 699. Registered under the Collections Act 1966 (QLD). People First Bank Foundation may be referred to as The Foundation across this website. The Foundation is not an authorised deposit-taking institution and its obligations do not represent deposits or other liabilities of Heritage and People’s Choice Limited (People First Bank). People First Bank's support of the Foundation is limited to operational costs, donation amounts and in-kind employee and charity partner support.
