In 2011 Suncorp Group has worked alongside its community partners to improve health and wellbeing through long-term sustainable programs.
Suncorp Group Brighter Futures™ Community Giving –
shaping the future of our charitable giving
2012 will be an exciting year for strengthening Suncorp Group's commitment to community giving and working towards the establishment of a Suncorp Group Foundation.
The Suncorp Group Brighter Futures™ Community Giving program will be developed with an overarching theme around 'health and wellbeing', with a specific focus on prevention. The Group will partner with charitable organisations that specialise in early detection, intervention and reducing the further impacts of established diseases. The program is designed to unite and engage our people and to empower individuals to make a difference to causes they are passionate about.
Youngcare, not aged care
Youngcare is a charity providing a relevant, dignified lifestyle for young Australians with full-time care needs who would otherwise live in aged care or nursing homes. Our support for Youngcare has raised more than $2 million since 2007. This year GIO and Suncorp's Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Insurance extended their Youngcare partnership for two more years (total value $860,000) and Suncorp CTP donated a further $50,000 through a Facebook campaign.
Suncorp Stadium
Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium has iconic status among sports enthusiasts in Queensland who watched in disbelief as flood waters inundated the playing field in January 2011. Suncorp donated $144,000 to the Queensland Premier's Disaster Relief Appeal (one dollar for every person who attended a sporting event at the stadium during March). Last year over 1.1 million patrons attended over 45 events at the Suncorp Stadium.
Suncorp has now secured the stadium's long-term naming rights sponsorship until the end of 2018, with an option to extend.
Quake break
Vero New Zealand supports the Youthtown initiative, which has an 80-year history of providing physical, social and creative youth activities in New Zealand.
Youthtown's Break from the Quake helped 500 Canterbury children escape the city and experience a week packed with fun activities during their school holidays at camps in Tongariro, Great Barrier Island and Auckland.
The Quake break was launched on a boat cruise of the Auckland harbour where the Cantabrian children placed 181 flowers and a wreath into the water to commemorate and remember each life tragically lost in the February 22 quake.
