DuluxGroup's "Growth with Communities" activities in 2023

Sustainability: 2024.12.17

DuluxGroup's "Growth with Communities" activities in 2023

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Product donated (paint, accessories, garden and other products)	AUD530,000
Cash contribution including direct donations, employee fundraising and targeted program funding	AUD460,000
Number of community projects and partnerships undertaken	More than 200
Paint donated (liters)	24,000 paint liters
Days of employee volunteering	330 days

Protecting Our Treasured Community Assets

The New Zealand Department of Conservation manages a network of more than 950 huts of all shapes and sizes, many are more than a century old.
They provide unique places to stay, refuge from bad weather, or rest and recover for people out exploring the outdoors. DuluxGroup and the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai have been working together to protect backcountry DOC huts, historic buildings and other facilities for future generations to enjoy. The partnership has been going strong for 10 years. In 2023, DuluxGroup donated more than 3,000 liters of paint.

DuluxGroup "Color Your Club"

Commencing in 2023, the DuluxGroup "Color your Club" initiative, sees DuluxGroup partner with the Geelong Cats and North Melbourne AFL Clubs to support local community sporting clubs to upgrade club rooms and facilities, through the donation of Dulux paints. Thousands of suburban and regional sporting clubs throughout Australia rely on volunteers, donations and fundraising to keep going.
DuluxGroup is lending a hand by offering up to 100 liters of paint to eligible clubs so they can upgrade facilities, to benefit their local community for years to come.

DuluxGroup Graduates give back-Second Chance Animal Rescue

Eleanor Wilcock, Assistant Product Manager for Dulux Trade, identified The Second Chance Animal Rescue (SCAR) Center as her chosen community project, a not-for-profit organization that rescues and rehabilitates cats and dogs sadly due to be euthanized at pounds and shelters, across Victoria.
Eleanor organized a small group of Dulux employees to donate their time for a day and do some good in the local community. SCAR relies on community donations, along with some of the revenue earnt from their Veterinary clinic. The weathered and deteriorated walls and concrete floors have now been transformed with new color throughout and its concrete floors newly coated and restored. As an additional gift to SCAR, a custom painting was created featuring the Dulux dog and matching existing artwork in the center.

Yates Supports One Tree Per Child

DuluxGroup's Yates garden business has partnered with One Tree Per Child to plant native trees to support local communities and improve climate resilience. One Tree Per Child is a not-for-profit organization established by Olivia Newton-John and Jon Dee that has seen hundreds-of-thousands of trees planted in ten countries.
One Tree Per Child aims to have every child planting one tree as part of a primary school activity. Together with One Tree Per Child, Yates helped primary school children plant more than 4,115 trees, with site locations including the City of Greater Dandenong and Adelaide.

The DuluxGroup Chemistry Prize

Each year DuluxGroup funds a monetary scholarship awarded to the best third year chemistry student at the University of Melbourne to help support them in their post-graduate studies. In 2023 the prize was awarded to Master of Science (Chemistry) student Erica Giudici. As part of the award, Erica visited the DuluxGroup Innovation & Technology Center at its headquarters in Melbourne and presented her work on computational quantum chemistry to DuluxGroup’s team of chemists. “As a student, this prize will greatly supplement my income and allow me to work less, thus reducing stress and the possibility of burn out and allowing me to focus on my current project,” said Erica on receiving the Prize.

Celebrating architecture's rising stars

The Dulux Study Tour, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Architects, fosters the next generation of architectural talent, with an annual tour awarded to five emerging architects who have demonstrated outstanding contribution to the architectural community. Founded in 2008, the tour celebrates the importance of Australia’s most promising early-career architects experiencing architecture firsthand. Barry Whitemore, Australian Institute of Architects Interim CEO, thanked DuluxGroup for the ongoing support of the Dulux Study Tour stating that the “contribution to the emerging demographic of our profession is incredible.”
This year’s winners were chosen from a very competitive field of applicants to participate in the 15th Australian Institute of Architects’ Dulux Study Tour, with the ten day study tour taking them to Helsinki, Lisbon, Zurich and the Venice Architecture Biennale.

DuluxGroup's "Growth with Communities" activities in 2023

DuluxGroup's Community Project Activities in 2023