Environmental volunteering for businesses
Environmental volunteering is a valuable way to enrich your employees' perspectives and skills, foster teamwork and enhance your organisational culture.
By creating volunteering opportunities in your workplace, your business can make a positive difference to the environment and the community.
Volunteering programs and opportunities
Visit Volunteering Australia to find out how to start a corporate volunteering program in your workplace.
The State Government compiles environmental volunteering opportunities across Victoria, including information about:
If you are interested in cleaning up a local area or need support for an event in Monash, email sustainability@monash.vic.gov.au
If you would like to join a planting activity with Council’s Bushland team, please contact us a few months in advance of your planned activity so we can try to arrange a planting session for you. Planting usually occurs from May to August.
Local environmental volunteering opportunities
There are many ways to get involved in environmental volunteering and community groups in Monash. You can help to protect and enhance the local environment and connect with others who share your business' values.
What's Your Jam is a program that runs from May to June each year and offers various events such as clean up, recycling or planting activities.
Monash Friends groups are environmental groups that organise regular events to protect, maintain and improve bush and parkland areas.
Clean Up Australia provides opportunities for businesses to participate in environmental conservation and litter clean ups, throughout the year.
Love Our Streets are groups that collect litter in local neighbourhoods, streets, creeks and open spaces.
South East Volunteers can help match corporate volunteers with suitable local organisations.
Benefits of environmental volunteering for businesses
Environmental volunteering can bring personal, community and corporate benefits. Some of the advantages for your business are:
- Helping to improve the local environment
- Supporting local organisations or community groups
- Building relationships and partnerships within the community
- Enhancing your company’s social and environmental responsibility
- Improving employee health and wellbeing
- Facilitating personal and team growth and empowerment
- Increasing employee productivity and engagement
- Gaining practical experience and learning new skills
- Developing leadership and teambuilding skills.
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