A Fresh Approach to Community Grants

–Huon’s Emily Dunn with Lizie Haswell from Brightside Animal Sanctuary –

Huon Dog Calendar Fundraiser

A few years ago, Huon’s Lydia and Amy from People, Safety and Culture decided to make a custom calendar featuring photos of their beloved doggies to jazz up their workspace. Needless to say, the concept soon caught on, and the following year other members from the People, Safety and Culture team wanted to get involved. Fast forward a couple more years, the dog calendar has grown to be a company-wide project and has even extended to become a fundraiser.

In 2020, we are proud to say that minus the cost to get the calendars printed, our little project raised $350 for our friends at Brightside Farm Sanctuary.

Emily from the Corporate Communications team recently seized the opportunity to get out of the office and drove down to Brightside to deliver the cheque and a 2020 Huon dog calendar.

A big thank you to all the Huon staff (and their fur babies) who were involved – we look forward to seeing more puppy pics for the 2021 edition!

–Volunteers with the sorted toys –

Christmas Toy Drive

2019 saw Huon’s inaugural participation in the City Mission Toy Drive. Toys were collected at the Hobart office and at Parramatta Creek and donated to City Mission for distribution through the program to disadvantaged and vulnerable people and families across Tasmania. City Mission reported 50 per cent increase in requests for assistance so we hope to expand the toy drive to more Huon sites to ensure that families who are doing it tough don’t miss out. In total, more than 7,000 toys were collected and distributed to 1,120 children.

Thanks to everyone who made a donation and to Anita Wheeler from Sales & Marketing for driving Huon’s participation.

–The mouth of the King River –

West Coast Clean-Up

Wet, windy and wild sums up the recent West Coast marine debris clean-up undertaken by the Strahan crew, Ed, Emma and Chali from Community Relations. The team had planned to head out into the Harbour but as the weather wasn’t playing nice (surprise, surprise!), they stayed closer to site. The area around the King River and Lowana was also targeted for clean-up and revealed a trove of debris including rope, domestic waste, an oil container, foam, safety fencing and legacy marine debris including several nets. In total, approximately 12kms of shoreline was covered and 0.8m3 of fish farm related waste and 2.5m3 (120kg) of domestic waste was removed.