At Woolworths Group we work with our teams, customers and a range of partners in order to create positive change in our communities. Our community programs are diverse but mainly focus on, healthy eating, food rescue for nourishing those in need, children’s health and wellbeing, and supporting farmers and regional Australia. Our national community partners include: OzHarvest, Foodbank and Fareshare in Australia, and KiwiHarvest and The Salvation Army in New Zealand.

Here are just a few of the ways Woolworths Group worked with teams, customers and a range of partners in F24 to create a better tomorrow:

• Donated a combined total of $143.4 million to our communities 
• Provided $81.3 million of surplus food and groceries from our stores and distribution centres to thousands of local charitable organisations
• Raised $3.3 million in funds through our S.T.A.N.D program, including our annual donation of $500,000 which enabled The Salvation Army to provide immediate relief to affected communities.

We have launched the Woolworths Group Foundation, with the aspiration to create long -term and meaningful impact in the communities we serve. Find out more here>

In 2024, we partnered with Landcare Australia for the sixth Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants Program round to help our future environmental champions.  We awarded 1,041 grants of up to $1,000 each to support outdoor learning projects at primary schools and early learning centres across Australia. The Woolworths Junior Landcare Grants program has awarded $6 million worth of grants to date, supporting more than 6,000 primary schools and early learning centres across Australia.

To further encourage kids to stay active and connect us to local communities, Woolworths Supermarkets is a partner of Woolworths Cricket Blast, Woolworths NetSetGo and Woolworths Surf Groms and therefore  one of the largest supporters of grassroots sports in Australia.

Our Woolworths Fresh Food Kids e-Discovery Tours program in Australia continues to help kids understand where their fresh food comes from, with more than 34,000 kids participating in the program throughout the year.

Woolworths New Zealand

In Aotearoa New Zealand, our Countdown business partners with a number of key organisations and charities to support and deliver positive outcomes for its local communities and people. 

Using its community platform, Food For Good, Countdown sets out to support Aotearoa’s most vulnerable New Zealanders and protect the environment for the future. Its key partners include The Salvation Army, The Red Cross, KidsCan and the food rescue organisations it works with throughout New Zealand. 

Here are a few of the ways the Countdown team and its customers are working together to help make Kiwis lives a little better everyday: 

• Countdown is a key supporter of food rescue in Aotearoa New Zealand, We've partnered with food rescue organisations across the country since 2011, donating 100% of our unsold, edible food. Together, we've saved more than 5000 tonnes of food going to landfill every year. 
• We donated more than $450,000 (NZD) in food and funds to our partners on the ground and government organisations to support those affected by natural disasters across New Zealand in the first half of 2023.
• The Salvation Army is Countdown’s largest charity partner, working together across New Zealand through food rescue and The Foodbank Project. Countdown also supports The Salvation Army to provide food parcels to those in need. As well as food donations, Countdown also helps The Salvation Army raise money through public appeals with funds raised going towards food parcels and other support services for vulnerable Kiwis, especially during winter and Christmas.
• Each year, schools and Early Childhood Education Centres throughout Aotearoa New Zealand apply to Countdown's Growing for Good fund to help them undertake sustainability projects - many of which focus on growing edible gardens and orchards that can be used by the whole community. 
• Countdown has partnered with KidsCan for a number of years, including supporting their Christmas Cracker Appeal and helping them to provide food for more than 40,000 children around New Zealand every day who would otherwise go hungry.
• Countdown established its Free Fruit for Kids programme in 2015. Since then, the programme has provided more than 10 million pieces of fruit, giving children a healthy and free snack to eat while shopping with their parents.