Corporate
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Your team can save koalas from extinction.
Join us for a corporate conservation event in the great outdoors to enhance your company culture, demonstrate your commitment to sustainability, build your team, and create a better future for koalas.
Koala Clancy Foundation is a unique Victorian koala charity with a proven record for koala habitat revegetation. We are the leaders in koala tree planting, beginning the movement in 2016. Our staff have experience running customised events that spans several decades.
Why join a Koala Clancy corporate volunteering event?
Our research shows that there are approximately 100 wild koalas left in the You Yangs who are heading for extinction. We need to plant 300,000 trees by 2030 to save them. We also need to protect their existing habitat from an invasive weed infestation in the You Yangs. Both of these projects are crucial for the survival of our koalas, and you can play a part in making them possible.
Corporate Volunteering Event Options
Tree planting is the ultimate koala conservation activity. When you join us for this event, your day will look like:
9:30am Arrival at a public meeting point to gather your team and use the bathroom. Our team will meet you here and we will drive in convoy to the planting site 10:00am Arrive at the planting site to receive a planting demo and then get to work
11:30am Morning tea break
12:00pm Continue planting
1:30pm Finish planting. Lunch break accompanied by a talk from one of our Koala Experts about your impact
2:30pm Depart planting site
Note: The timing of these events are highly dependent on which point in the tree planting season you event is, as this impacts which project site you’re planting at. Please discuss these details further with our friendly team while making arrangements.
Give your team the opportunity to participate in the fastest way to restore habitat for our koalas. When you join us for this event, your day will look like:
9:30am Arrival at a public meeting point in Little River to gather your team and use the bathroom. Our team will meet you here and we will drive in convoy to the You Yangs
10:00am Arrive at the You Yangs to receive an introduction to the park and a weeding demo and then get to work 11:30am Morning tea break
12:00pm Continue weeding
12:30pm Finish weeding. Have a lunch break accompanied by a talk from one of our Koala Experts about our koalas, their life stories and future trajectory, as well as your impact on this
1:30pm Embark on a guided wildlife walk through the You Yangs to learn first-hand about the flora and fauna of the park
2:30pm Depart the You Yangs
Do you want to immerse your team in the behind-the-scenes operations of a wildlife conservation organisation? We welcome you to join us for a day at the Koala Clancy Foundation HQ to help sow the seeds for our annual tree planting season.
9:30am Arrival at a public meeting point in Anakie to gather your team and use the bathroom. Our team will meet you here and we will drive in convoy to the Koala Clancy Foundation HQ
10:00am Arrive at the Koala Clancy Foundation HQ to receive an introduction to the area and seed sowing demo, and then get to work 11:30am Morning tea break
12:00pm Continue seed sowing activity
1:30pm Finish activity. Enjoy lunch under our towering eucalypts accompanied by a talk from one of our Koala Experts about your impact.
2:30pm Depart Koala Clancy Foundation HQ
Option A
Tree Planting for Koalas’ Futures-
Available June - August
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5 hours (9:30am - 2:30pm)
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Located in Greater Geelong Region
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Morning tea and lunch included
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Option for group transport
Option B
Weeding and Wildlife Walk-
Available September - May
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5 hours (9:30am - 2:30pm)
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Located You Yangs Regional Park
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Morning tea and lunch included
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Option for group transport
Option C
Seed Sowing at the KCF Nursery-
Available November - March
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5 hours (9:30am - 2:30pm)
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Located in Staughton Vale, Victoria
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Morning tea and lunch included
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Option for additional transport
We will provide all tools and equipment required to undertake your chosen event activity: gloves, trees, guides – we’ve got it all covered!
Morning tea will be provided for all events, which will include a small snack and coffee/tea. All participants should bring a full reusable water bottle, we will have water to top these up if needed. Unless lunch is included in the event, participants should bring their own lunch.
Participants should come wearing suitable outdoor clothing for all weather conditions – a bit of rain doesn’t scare us! Sturdy, closed toed shoes are a must, as well as a hat and sunscreen.
Our event locations vary greatly depending on which option you choose. No matter which option you choose, we will allocate a public meeting location where your group will be met by a Koala Clancy guide. This will give your team the opportunity to gather, stretch their legs, and use the bathroom as our event locations often don’t have access to bathroom facilities. From here we will all drive a short distance in convoy to the event site.
If you include transportation within your event booking, a bus will collect your team either from your office or a central meeting location in Melbourne CBD and bring you to the public meeting location, then follow the Koala Clancy guide to the event site.
At the end of the day everyone will depart from the event location and head home in their vehicles or back to your office in the bus provided.
A 10% deposit is required to confirm your event date. Full payment is required 14 days before the event
Final participant numbers and all relevant information such as arrival method and dietary requirements are required 14 days before the event. Any changes to these details within 14 days of the event may not be accommodated for
Cancellation: 50% refunded if cancelled 7-13 days before, no refund if cancelled 0-6 days before. Cancellation charges apply both to the day as a whole and to reductions in participant numbers
Rescheduling is subject to availability
If your company hopes to demonstrate an ongoing commitment to sustainability and the future of koalas, Koala Clancy Foundation offers the opportunity for corporate partnership.
Please contact us at info@koalaclancyfoundation.org.au to discuss these opportunities.
Koala Clancy Foundation is registered as a Deductible Gift Recipient charity (DGR), so donations from Australia may be tax deductible.
Unsure about any other important event details? Our team are here to help!
Contact us at info@koalaclancyfoundation.org.au
Koala Clancy Foundation plants trees for koalas, which means we plant trees in very specific locations, with the health and long life of the tree as paramount. Our plantings are usually linear – along rivers and streams, which is the best koala habitat for the future. Our tree planting projects are 1 to 10 hectares in size (800 to 8000 trees), and over an entire tree planting season we will plant around 40 hectares (30,000 trees).
Trees planted for carbon credits/carbon offsets are planted quite differently. Most of these tree planting projects are vast – 200 hectares to 1 square kilometre minimum (160,000 to 800,000 trees), usually in a block, with species planted for fast growth and high carbon capture potential. Some are planted by direct seeding – which can be very effective – a big machine rolls over the land dropping kilograms of seed. Most of these forests are not koala habitat (although Greenfleet do have an excellent South Gippsland koala conservation project). Some of your money may go to tree planting projects that are not in Australia.
So unfortunately, Koala Clancy Foundation cannot offer carbon credits or carbon offset certificates. Even if we were much bigger, our main purpose in planting the trees is for koalas, and carbon capture is a wonderful bonus.
By planting trees with Koala Clancy Foundation you will help save a koala’s life in the most targetted way possible. You will also help other threatened wildlife. You will form a connection with your trees, be able to photograph them and publish these on your platforms and social media. You will be lowering your carbon emissions impact.
To achieve the best outcome, we recommend you book a tree planting day for your team with us, and also offset your company’s emissions with Greenfleet or Carbon Neutral or a similar company. It’s not expensive.
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