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Westpac has won a new Australian award for employers that encourage their staff to volunteer.
The bank has taken the Award for Excellence in Corporate Volunteering, given by Volunteering Australia, which supports companies that run programmes involving staff, and the National Australia Bank.
Westpac, 85 per cent of whose workforce participate in volunteering or fund-raising, won the award against stiff competition from other large organizations, including Alcoa, ANZ, ExxonMobil, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Shell.
Samantha Brown, the bank’s head of community involvement, said: ‘Westpac employees support a range of community organizations in a variety of ways. Increasingly, we are seeing teams and individuals undertaking volunteering activities that draw on their professional skills.’
Julia Pollard, Volunteering Australia’s chief executive, said: ‘From the calibre of entries it is reassuring to know that many companies have achieved exceptionally high levels of standard in their programmes.’
Last year National Australia Bank employees gave 6200 days, the equivalent of A$1.5million ($1.37m, £670,000) in salary, to volunteering. Richard Peters, the bank’s head of CSR, said: ‘Corporate volunteering has proven to be an effective and sustainable component of corporate social responsibility strategies. An award that recognizes this will hopefully encourage all levels of management to embrace not-for-profit partners.’
The bank has taken the Award for Excellence in Corporate Volunteering, given by Volunteering Australia, which supports companies that run programmes involving staff, and the National Australia Bank.
Westpac, 85 per cent of whose workforce participate in volunteering or fund-raising, won the award against stiff competition from other large organizations, including Alcoa, ANZ, ExxonMobil, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Shell.
Samantha Brown, the bank’s head of community involvement, said: ‘Westpac employees support a range of community organizations in a variety of ways. Increasingly, we are seeing teams and individuals undertaking volunteering activities that draw on their professional skills.’
Julia Pollard, Volunteering Australia’s chief executive, said: ‘From the calibre of entries it is reassuring to know that many companies have achieved exceptionally high levels of standard in their programmes.’
Last year National Australia Bank employees gave 6200 days, the equivalent of A$1.5million ($1.37m, £670,000) in salary, to volunteering. Richard Peters, the bank’s head of CSR, said: ‘Corporate volunteering has proven to be an effective and sustainable component of corporate social responsibility strategies. An award that recognizes this will hopefully encourage all levels of management to embrace not-for-profit partners.’
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