As part of our commitment to grassroots sport and Indigenous development in Australia, we’re pleased to announce we are expanding our partnership with the AFL to include the AFL Indigenous Programs.
This program will deliver football, health, education, leadership and employment opportunities for Indigenous men & women. The partnership includes the following AFL Indigenous Programs:
- State Under 15 Indigenous Camps
- Under 15 National Kickstart Championships
- Under 15 Flying Boomerangs program
- Female Under 18 Kickstart Camps
- Female Under 18 National Kickstart Championships
- National Indigenous Coaching Academy
- Indigenous Ambassadors program
- Indigenous All Stars game
The Coles AFL Indigenous Programs partnership will for the first time see the introduction of a female Under 18 Indigenous camp in which the top players will be selected to compete at the historical Under 18 National Kickstart Championships to be held in Melbourne.
For 30 years Redkite has been helping Australian children and young people with cancer and their families, offering essential emotional, financial and educational support through every stage of the cancer journey. In January this year, we partnered with them, pledging to help Redkite help the 11,000 children and young people in Australia who are cancer patients or survivors by raising $5 million for the charity in 2013. We’re happy to announce we’re well on the way to achieving this target with our customers and team members helping to raise over $2.5 million for Redkite so far.
We’re proud to announce we recently received an award for our Foodbank Australia partnership. Over the last 10 years, our food donations have created over 10 million meals for Aussies in need.
Did you know that one in 10 babies born in Australia today will develop a food allergy? This worrying statistic indicates that life-threatening allergic reactions in children aged four and under have increased fivefold over the last 10 years. Alarmingly, too, approximately 10 Australians die as a result of allergic reactions (analphylaxis) each year.
Earlier this year, we announced our partnership with Redkite, a national charity supporting children and young people with cancer and their families. Redkite needs to at least double in size in order to reach all who need their essential support as there are families right now who can’t access Redkite’s support programs
Thanks to our Coles Community Food with SecondBite program, fresh produce bound for landfill is feeding hungry Australians. It’s a startling statistic – 1.2 million Australians don’t have access to affordable, safe and nutritious food. But through our partnership with SecondBite, a national not-for-profit food rescue organisation, 1.9 million kilograms of fresh fruit and vegetables and bakery goods have been donated by Coles to food agencies. They distribute or cook the food and serve to the hundreds of thousands of people in need of a well-balanced, nutritious diet.
We’ve never been more conscious of seafood sustainability and this Friday we’re proud to support Sustainable Seafood Day. To kick off celebrations, Curtis Stone visited the Gold Coast Tiger Prawn Farm in Woongoolba on the Gold Coast and met the farmers who provide delicious fresh prawns to our stores. He helped catch the prawns and watched over the process from water to store (while sampling some of the award-winning prawns along the way). Curtis even helped a few lucky customers at our Runaway Bay store pick their seafood for dinner!
We’re proud to be a major supporter of Coeliac Australia and once again we’re partnering with them for their annual awareness week. Coeliac Awareness Week, 13 to 20 March, seeks to provide information about Coeliac disease and support for those with the condition.
This Australia Day, we are pleased to announce our new partnership with
From today, five cents from every loaf of Coles Smart Buy bread and Coles Brand bread will be donated to Redkite. We are also making it easy for customers and Team Members to make cash donations at the register, through coles online and self-service checkouts or directly to 
