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Serve Your Community Promotion

We’re giving three SME businesses, clubs or community organisations the opportunity to win $10,000 each, so they can serve their local community.

Plus 1 to 10 Nestlé prize packs to be won*.

Thank you to all who entered the promotion.

We saw entries from numerous SME businesses, clubs and community organisations who supported community initiatives covering a wide variety of worthwhile causes.

After much deliberation from our judging panel, we are pleased to have selected the below organisations as the Major and Minor winners:

Save Your Community Major and Minor Winners

 

Major Winners

1) Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre - VIC

has committed to building a new bike path and investing in a supply of balance bikes and trikes for preschool-aged children. With a strong multicultural community, this much-needed play space will assist young children and their families in developing their road safety knowledge.

Long Gully Neighbourhood Centre - VIC

 

2) Remote Laundries - NT

will continue to fund their free critical laundry service in remote communities across the Northern Territory, directly supporting the employment opportunities for Aboriginal people in the community.

Remote Laundries - NT

 

3) The TADDS Hub - QLD

will continue to facilitate services that build community resilience and support life skill education. This includes Mates Helping Mates morning teas, Make & Create Sessions, hosting workshops, building a community garden and increasing participation in financial literacy and mental wellness activities.

The TADDS Hub - QLD

 

Minor Winners

  • All Abilities Cheer and Dance - SA
  • Angas Go-Kart Club - SA
  • Bridge Builders - WA
  • Fostering Hope - WA
  • Launceston Benevolent Society - TAS
  • Lockington District Neighbourhood House - VIC
  • Open Hands Community Care - QLD
  • Safe Waters Community Care - NSW
  • Sikh Family Food Van Trust - NT
  • Swimz Guildford - NSW

 

We congratulate the winners and thank all again for entering in the 'Serve Your Community' Promotion!

Why we created this challenge

NESCAFÉ and MILO are iconic brands that have been a part of Aussie communities for decades. Our communities are resilient and have always pulled together in good times and bad. And now we want to help you be there for them too.

 

What we’re trying to achieve

Community spirit is important to us. It's the unwavering community spirit of Gympie in QLD and Smithtown in NSW that powers some of our most iconic brands, like NESCAFÉ and MILO.

We know Aussie towns and communities have had a tough time the last few years and so we want to help make life a little easier by inviting locals to serve their community.

Celebration

 

What we’ve done so far

For the last two years, Nestlé Professional has partnered with Rotary in Australia to support and celebrate Aussie communities. 

We produced limited-edition NESCAFÉ and MILO tins, celebrating a selection of regional communities across Australia and donated a portion of tins to corresponding local Rotary Clubs; to serve at local community events to on-sell, or donate, with profits going to each Club, for their community.

The money raised has supported a variety of worthwhile initiatives - from funding food services who help the disadvantaged in Geelong, to buying medical equipment for the Paediatric Ward in the Alice Springs Hospital.

Rotary Clubs and Nestle


What you can do to help

Local businesses have always been a part of the fabric of Aussie communities and tend to know their towns better than anyone else.  

So, we are looking to you, to identify specific initiatives that would serve your community. And we will be giving three SME businesses, clubs and community organisations, just like yours, the chance to win $10,000 each to bring their initiatives to life. 

Nescafe Save Your Community
Eligibility

You’ll need to be a business, club or community organisation, that has been operating for two or more years. You’ll need an ABN and have less than 100 full time employees.

How to enter

We are asking entrants to fill out an online FORM and answer a series of questions, to help give us a better idea of what you would do with $10,000 to serve your community.

The questions are:

  1. Describe what initiatives you would like to undertake for your community. Optionally you may also include a YouTube video outlining the project.
  2. Outline why this initiative is needed
  3. List what your initiative objectives are in point form
  4. Describe in some detail, the activities you will be undertaking 

Entries are open between 13 February 2023 and 24 March 2023 11.59pm (AEDT).

Judging Criteria

All entries will be judged on the following criteria:

COMMUNITY     Does your initiative celebrate community and bring together a diverse group of people?
REALISATION     Is your initiative already in progress or in the market?
EXPANSION     Does your initiative have the potential for expansion?
IMPACT         How great an impact will your initiative have on the community?

 

Jury

All the entries will be reviewed by our jury, which comprises of representatives from the Nestlé Professional and Rotary teams of Australia.  

The judging will take place at the office of the promotor, on the 27th of March 2023.

3 x Major Prize Winners

Three businesses will each get a Major Prize of AUD $10,000 cash each, to serve their community.

3 x Major Prize Winners

 

10 x Minor Prize Winners

Ten businesses will each get a Minor Prize (valued up to $1,390 each), consisting of:

  • 3x NESCAFÉ BLEND 43 Celebrate Australia 1kg tins
  • 3x MILO Celebrate Australia 1.9kg tins
  • 10x sets of NESCAFÉ Flowerpot, Notebook and Pen made using coffee ground waste
  • 5x Aldo beverage dispenser machine
  • 5x MILO Cooler Flask
10 x Minor Prize Winners