Community investment

Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (AIEF)

HSBC Australia's five year partnership with AIEF is focused on creating positive futures for indigenous Australians by facilitating access to leading schools, universities and corporations for some of Australia's most marginalised young people. HSBC provides additional support through employee mentors and tutors as well as the opportunity for students to take part in work placement and training.

Read more about AIEF.

Money Savvy with the YWCA NSW

HSBC Australia partners with YWCA NSW to deliver Money Savvy, a fun, fast-paced program aimed at improving the financial literacy of high school students by providing information about debt, savings, and superannuation in fast-paced, interactive workshops. Each year over 150 HSBC staff act as mentors during the workshops and help to deliver the program to nearly 2,000 school students across NSW, SA, WA, ACT and QLD.

Key College with Youth Off the Streets

As part of its global commitment to improving the lives of disadvantaged young people, HSBC supports the salary of a teacher and a case worker to assist the students at Key College, Youth Off The Street's school for homeless children in Redfern, Sydney. Key College not only helps young people with their education but also provides a connection to a network of support services including accommodation, training and employment. HSBC employees help students develop interview skills, build career plans and prepare for the workplace.

HSBC Futures with Students in Free Enterprise

HSBC Futures is an integrated program supporting the development of some Australia's brightest students. HSBC provides financial grants to community projects designed and implemented by participating student teams aiming to improve the lives of disadvantaged Australians. HSBC also provides selected students with summer internship opportunities and access to employees to act as judges and mentors at the SIFE National Conference and championships every year.

HSBCkids with Barnardos

HSBCkids is an initiative that works with disadvantaged Australian children to develop life, literacy and numeracy skills, improve social and relationship abilities and provide time out for them and their family. HSBC volunteers help children with tutoring, mentoring, homework help, sports and recreation.

 

Principal Conservation Partner of the Botanic Gardens Trust

As Principal Conservation Partner of the Botanic Gardens Trust, HSBC provides vital funding to support the Trust's conservation program: Protecting Plants for the Future at local, regional and international levels.

The NSW Seedbank, is part of an international seedbanking program set up to insure against the extinction of the world's threatened plant species. HSBC's support funds the research and collection of seeds from NSW's most vulnerable climatic zones. With HSBC's support the Botanic Gardens has already secured nearly 40% of NSW's endangered plant species in safe storage.

Locally, Towards Sustainable Horticulture is a program aiming to improve the public's understanding of water conservation, soil care and biological weed and pest management through education and demonstration of best practice in sites like the HSBC 'What's the Big Idea?' Garden at Mount Annan Botanic Garden.

Regionally, HSBC contributes to the long term conservation of plants and their habitats by supporting the Trust's contribution to the Asia Capacity Building Program which is building capacity and sharing expertise among the botanic gardens of the Asia Pacific region. In the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, the HSBC Oriental Garden highlights these conservation programs by showcasing the biodiversity of the Asia Pacific.
 

HSBC Climate Partnership

The HSBC Climate Partnership is a US$100 million global five-year partnership between the HSBC Group and The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and WWF.

The program aims to create cleaner, greener cities; create an HSBC global climate change taskforce including over 2,000 Climate Champions worldwide; conduct one of the biggest field experiments on long-term effects of climate change on the world's forests; and protect some of the world's major rivers and the livelihoods of people who rely on them.

Each year HSBC employees from Australia join colleagues from around the world in field research in selected endangered forest areas in Asia. They develop a greater understanding of global climate change issues and learn how each employee can integrate this into their role at HSBC and the bank's business priorities locally.

Read more about the success of the partnership.
 

HSBC Australia offers employees one day of paid volunteer leave per year to work in the community and through the HSBC Community Chest provides financial grants to support a range of community projects initiated and led by our staff. Each year HSBC employees commit over 4,000 volunteer hours to Australian charities.

HSBC employees also go 'on the beat' with Mission Australia's Missionbeat service. HSBC pays the costs of keeping a Missionbeat van and driver on the road, helping to connect Sydney's homeless with vital support services.