We also support the St Patrick’s Community Support Centre, which provides accommodation, meals and other services to vulnerable and homeless members of the community. Along with a financial donation at Christmas time, we raise funds for them through a container recycling program, and collect money through other events, such as “Go Green for St Pat’s” on St Patrick’s Day. At Christmas time, Civmec also volunteers to pack hampers and run errands for the centre.

Every year, Civmec gets behind Clean Up Australia for their annual ‘Step Up to Clean Up’ business clean up event. It’s a day where we can work together as a team and make a difference to our local environment. This March, our team of volunteers donned their gloves, doing a great job of cleaning up around our Henderson site and surrounding roadways.

Employees at Civmec’s offices Australia-wide take part in Jeans for Genes day every year, wearing their jeans to work and donating to the Children’s Medical Research Institute. The money raised is used to help find treatments and cures for children’s genetic diseases.

Each Christmas, we make financial donations in lieu of purchasing client gifts. Often, we choose a youth charity to be a recipient, including Anglicare WA, who run the Young Hearts Foundation – a child counselling service that provides a safe and supportive environment for children who have been impacted by domestic violence.

We recognise that the youth of Australia are our future, and regularly host group tours of our facility for school and college students. We attend college open days, providing career advice and information, and the opportunity to ask questions and have first-hand, real-world experiences at our facilities.

Whenever Civmec holds donation drives for Foodbank, our employees step up to the plate, generously donating food and other non-perishable supplies to help those that are less fortunate. Our most recent Foodbank donation drives at Henderson include the ‘Donation Drive-Thru’ event and a donation drive to gather food and other items in the lead up to Christmas. As Australia’s largest food relief organisation, Foodbank uses these donations to create care hampers for West Australians experiencing homelessness.

Civmec places great importance on giving back to the community and providing support through sponsorship to local clubs and events. Recent sponsorships have included the local Australian Rules (AFL) football team of two of our female employees, sponsorship of the Bunbury Barbarians rugby team, the MACA Cancer 200 Ride for Research, the Port Hedland Well Women’s Centre Pink Pilbara Breakfast, in addition to many other worthy causes.