Supporting the community by giving back is as much a part of the business as designing roads, parks, clubs or open space.
Community is a crucial to all Villawood’s operations and Villawood pours more than $2 million a year into sponsorships and grants across all its communities.
This support ranges from national sports such as the AFL’s Geelong Cats and the WNBL’s Bendigo Spirit to numerous smaller groups – dozens upon dozens of them. Think football, athletics, cricket, special needs, netball, men’s sheds, family services, fire brigades, triathlons, schools, service clubs, rugby, basketball, swimming, surf lifesaving, festivals and many others.
Villawood’s biggest effort goes toward the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Good Friday Appeal Charity House Auction, donating prime land within its best new communities each year.
More than $7.4 million has been raised in the past 11 years through this collaboration with Henley Homes. That includes $790K in 2020 and a record $826K in 2018.
In 2019, Villawood joined Queensland’s House for Life initiative and helped raise $986,000 for the Mater Little Miracles initiative.
Villawood’s believes companies should include some form of social responsibility in their businesses, in trying to make products and services more affordable and more achievable for everybody.
Villawood leads the industry in providing $20K savings on its land for vital community care workers such as nurses and paramedics, firefighters and teachers, police and personal carers. It sets aside 20 per cent of its new release land for care workers, enabling many to access a property market they might otherwise not access.
Giving back is tied to Villawood’s imperative of social responsibility and building self-sustaining communities. Putting more effort into social responsibility rewards us with communities that function better, that are more harmonious.
Giving back to the communities that support you makes for lives that are more social, fulfilling, rewarding, efficient, healthy, sustainable and comfortable.
The bottom line is simple, it just makes sense to help people.
