Annual Charity Golf Day

The Adroit Insurance Group Charity Golf Day is held in Geelong in November each year to raise money for the St John of God Hospital.  Affectionately, known as the Meatball Cup in honour of the late Graham Page, this event has now raised over $240,000 for the St John of God Hospital, Geelong.

2009 Media Release

Loaned Executive Program

Each year a staff member from Adroit volunteers to the United Way Geelong Region's Loaned Executive Program.  The program provides the participants with intensive training in order to arm them with the skills to prospect to staff  at a range of Geelong businesses, the benefits of workplace giving. They take the opportunity to thank those already contributing and ask them to review their current pledge and to encourage others to consider commencing workplace giving to United Way.

 

Child Sponsorship

In 2009 Adroit commenced sponsorship of a disadvantaged student, Mikayla, through The Smith Family.  She is a primary school aged student who enjoys playing in the playground and reading.  Her profile says that when she grows up she would like to work at McDonalds.  Adroit contributes a gift card to Mikayla for her birthday and Christmas and sends general correspondence throughout the year.   Our contribution is used to assist her educational needs e.g. uniforms,excursions, books etc.

 

Recognition of Community Engagement

Adroit Geelong was awarded the 2007 Community Business of the Year known as The Bollies.The Bollies seek to foster partnerships between local businesses and community organisations by recognising and rewarding those enterprises making a difference in the community.

 

Branch Engagement

In October 2009 Adroit held a Community Investment Strategy Workshop involving a cross-section of staff from all Branches and all levels with the aim of identifying what Adroit would like to stand for in the community and to gain a better understanding of how to get the best business returns on our community engagement and investment.

 

The workshop was facilitated by Lisa Kingman who is one of Australia’s most respected independent community advisers, who is a strong believer in the fact that for staff engagement to occur, the community needs, causes or social issues that the business elects to align itself with, needs to be a cause of most importance to the majority of staff.

 

The outcome of the workshop was that our community support will be focused on helping reduce the risks faced by young people in need. e.g. disadvantaged or special needs, this was the cause identified by our employees as the most important to them. 

 

A summary of our Community Investment Strategy Workshop is availabel to view.

Click here.

 

Geelong Branch

The Geelong Branch has aligned itself to Wombat's Wish.  This is a local community based grief support group for bereaved children, adolescents and their families.

The staff have volunteered in Family Fun Days, weekend camps, after school activities and fund raising.  Please visit their website to check out the good works of this organisation.

 

Staff Engagement

 

Workplace Giving

A number of Adroit's staff participate in workplace giving in support of United Way.

(refer to Loaned Executvie Program above)

Other Initiatives

Individual staff members at each branch organise special events and fundraising which is encouraged and is at the foundation of our ethos: to make a difference.

These include:

Mothers Day Classic Walk

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea

Jeans for Genes Day

United Way Corporate Head of the River

Pink Ribbon Morning Tea

Movember

Please refer to our Calendar of events.