Backpacks for School Kids

Equipping young minds with the tools, confidence, and opportunity to learn.

The Experience

This hands-on employee volunteer program brings your team together to assemble and personalise backpacks filled with essential school supplies for students facing disadvantage. The session begins with engaging STEM-based team challenges aligned to key learning areas, building energy, collaboration, and problem-solving. Delegates then pack, wrap, and prepare each item with care, finishing by writing personal messages of encouragement to the students who will receive them, creating a meaningful human connection beyond the donation.

Experience Details

Key Requirements

Projector & screen, tables for participants and items, microphone required for groups 30+ delegates

Experience In Action

Why This Experience Matters?

In Australia, one in six children is growing up in poverty. For many families, the cost of basic school supplies is a real barrier to education. Without the right tools, students can start the year feeling unprepared, anxious, and left behind. This employee volunteer program helps break the cycle of disadvantage by ensuring children arrive at school equipped, confident and ready to learn. Each pack removes financial pressure from families, supports educational participation and gives students a stronger foundation to thrive, stay engaged and build a brighter future.

Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals:

Impact on Your Team

The employee volunteer program begins with STEM-based team challenges that strengthen collaboration, creative thinking, and problem-solving before teams work together toward a shared purpose.

Big PictureCollaborationCommunicationMorale BoostProblem-SolvingResilienceWork as One Team

Meet our Charity Partner

The backpacks assembled during this employee volunteer program are typically donated to Barnardos Australia, an organisation that works with vulnerable children, young people, and families to break the cycle of disadvantage and create safe, stable homes. Barnardos distributes these education packs to families experiencing financial hardship, ensuring children have the essential supplies they need to participate fully in school, build confidence, and stay engaged in their learning. Alternatively, we can partner with a charity of your choice or work with a local school to identify students who would benefit most, ensuring your team’s contribution creates meaningful impact within the community that matters to you.

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