Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

Corporate social responsibility is fast becoming a must-have for organisations seeking to increase their contribution to society and the environment.

From social enterprise dining initiatives, team activities that give back and supporting native wildlife. Here are some ways to include a CSR initiative in your program.

Cook for a Cause

OzHarvest Adelaide has been getting good food to people in need since 2011. Every week, four vans named Daisy, Lily, Chino, and Billy, rescue around 3,500kg of quality surplus food, and deliver more than 40,000 meals to people in need throughout Adelaide.

Join OzHarvest for a Cooking for a Cause experience. Learn about zero waste food preparation using rescued ingredients to create a gourmet meal that they then pack for delivery to local charities. Key takeaways include new skills to be used at home as well as a team building activity that elevates working together for the benefit of vulnerable communities.

Contact: Alana Roberts, SA Engagement Coordinator,
Email: alana.roberts@ozharvest.org

Be Challenged

An opportunity to unite your team by helping those less fortunate. The Giving Back to the Community Programs are all based around helping those in need whilst ensuring the group enjoy a brilliant shared experience that is sure to stay with them long after the program has finished.

Be Challenged create interactive team building events that turn individuals into great collaborators and more effective team players. Be Challenged’s unique approach to helping businesses reach their full potential means your team will learn while having fun. In each of the team building programs teamwork, collaboration and communication are the key learning outcomes along with practical skills around leadership and strategic thinking. To find out more, click here to website.

Tree for Life

Team Building That Gives Back

Giving back to charity is a driving factor for team engagement and collaboration for CSR events. Teams enjoy tackling problems with innovative solutions and ethical outcomes. By developing compassionate products, companies that invest in team building improve outcomes through cohesion and cooperation of employees. Teams have the opportunity to create something that will benefit others while maintaining and building lasting relationships within the group.

With Beyond the Boardroom, you can construct a water filtration unit which is sent to a partnering charity and given to a village in need of clean drinking water. Or give back to those who are less fortunate by constructing toys or bikes for a children’s charity, kennels for rescue dogs, prosthetics for amputees or solar lights for children living in energy poverty to help them study after dark and improve education.

If you have something specific in mind and would like to try something different, you can modify the programs to include a fundraising element. For example, a race which raises money for a charity of your choosing.

To find out more, click here to website.

Who Would You Like to Support?

Helping Hands

Helping Hands is a unique opportunity where your team constructs prosthetic hands for landmine victims. These prosthetics help the victims to return to a somewhat normal life, allowing them to write, hold tools in order to earn income and ride their motorbikes again.

2 hours
20 to 1,000 delegates

Race for a Cause

Get your team together to Race for a Cause! This is a fast paced, action packed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) event involves the team giving back to a charity organisation.

2-3 hours
30 to 1,000+ delegates

Toy Story

Toy Story is a fantastic CSR activity where teams compete in challenges resulting in the donation of toys to a children’s charity.

2 hours
30 to 300+ delegates

Bike Brigade

Teams complete a series of team-based challenges with the end result being the building of bikes. The bikes are then donated to a charity at the end of the event in a heartfelt handover.

2 hours
30 to 1000 delegates

Pet Rescue

Teams complete a series of team-based challenges with the end result being a kennel, pet toys and food donated to a pet that is being adopted.

2 hours
30 to 500+ delegates

Water Works

Water Works is a truly life changing activity where groups build water filtration units that are distributed to communities that do not have the basic necessity which is clean drinking water.

Half Day
20 to 300+ delegates

Brighter Future

In a collaborative effort with Solar Buddy, Brighter Future is a 1-hour team building event that results in a solar light being built.

The lights help combat energy poverty in 3rd world countries and are donated to children to help them be able to study at night and improve their general well-being.

1 hour - half day
12 to 200+ Delegates

For a more detailed quote on any of the options above, please reach out to the Business Events Adelaide

Supporting Local Communities

Supporting Local

Adelaide Convention Centre (ACC)

The Adelaide Convention Centre believes corporate social responsibility is central to modern business. The Adelaide Convention Centre is very community conscious, take satisfaction in supporting South Australian producers, suppliers and not-for-profit organisations, and strives to set and meet high environmental standards. The Adelaide Convention Centre’s welfare initiatives include delivering tonnes of leftover food to disadvantaged people through Foodbank SA and OzHarvest.

Adelaide Convention Centre aims, through the implementation and application of the ACC’s Environment and Social Sustainability Policy, to commit to Fair Trade Principles where feasible. Benchmarking, research and continuous improvement are fundamental in achieving the ACC’s sustainability goals. To find out more on Social Responsibility and Sustainability at the Adelaide Convention Centre, please click here.

Tree’s for Life

Tree’s for life is a South Australian charity that’s goal is to simply plant more trees across South Australia. Their team of volunteer growers raise almost half a million native seedlings in their backyards each year. Given the devastation of recent bushfires on Kangaroo Island and the Adelaide Hills, never has their mission been more important. The concept here is to use the Trees for Life volunteer network to grow the seedlings for your delegates and when delegates are in Adelaide, they can plant their own individual tree. This will leave a lasting legacy in South Australia and provide much needed vegetation for our natural habitat. To find out more, click here to website.

ILA

ILA is a revolutionary social enterprise and registered charity with a vision to provide a home for accessible excellence and innovation in creative expression, the arts, entertainment, hospitality and related technologies. Light aims to be self-sustainable and by hosting a business event, social event or dining the Restaurant Aurora; all revenue goes back to support the creative and performing arts community. To find out more, click here to website.

Clean Ocean

Clean Ocean’s – Let’s Make One Thing Clear

Clean Ocean’s is a charity group that partners with local surf lifesaving clubs. Its mission is to stop plastics entering our oceans and waterways, with a goal of banning all single use plastics on every Australian beach by 2025. The concept is to purchase a reusable Clean Ocean’s water bottle for all Delegates and for every purchased bottled can reciprocate a purchase for a lifesaver in Adelaide. To find out more, click here to website.

Ronald McDonald House Adelaide

Ronald McDonald House Adelaide gives seriously ill and injured children the best gift of all – their families. The warm and supportive home-away-from-home provides the whole family with a comfortable place to stay and peace of mind, knowing they can stay together and close to the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

Ronald McDonald House Adelaide is spread across two sites directly opposite each other. The main House sleeps up to ten families in single room accommodation. The second building is an apartment-style facility containing ten two - bedroom self-contained units, best suited to families staying with us for longer periods of time. To find out more, click here to website.