We believe we've got a responsibility to give back to our local communities. Every year we're helping set up and support thousands of educational, environmental and sporting and charitable programs to help a wide range of people and communities on a local, regional, state and national level.
McDonald's Camp Quality Puppets
Over the last ten years, the McDonald's Camp Quality Puppets have inspired and educated more than 1.7 million school children about childhood cancer. We sponsor the troupe’s puppet making, and fund the puppeteer training program.
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Clean Up Australia Day
We're a proud founding partner of Clean Up Australia Day, pledging our support since it started in 1989. Since then we've seen an incredible shift in the community towards the environment, with Australians collecting over 165,000 tonnes of rubbish.
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McDonald's Performing Arts Challenge
The Performing Arts Challenge gives young aspiring artists the chance to compete across a broad range of performance categories, including poetry, drama and public speaking, as well as music composition and creative writing. To register for the annual event, please visit www.sydneyeisteddfod.com.au.
Little Athletics
We're proud to be a major sponsor of Little Athletics in NSW, QLD, ACT, VIC, SA, TAS and WA. Throughout each state across Australia, thousands of kids aged between 4 and 15 take part in Little Athletics. We're also honoured to support their vision to promote positive attitudes and a healthy lifestyle through family and community involvement in Athletics.
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Basketball Victoria
We are the major supporters of McDonald’s Hooptime, a series of one day round robin tournaments for primary school teams run by Basketball Victoria. The tournaments are held at local basketball stadiums across Victoria and involve more 32,000 children from across 500 metropolitan and regional schools.
NSW Fire Brigade
We are proud to be a partner of the NSW Fire Brigade and to assist them with educating Australian children about fire prevention and fire safety.
QLD Swimming
We are very pleased to support Gold Coast, Brisbane and QLD swimming, swimming associations that provide the infrastructure for learning to swim and swim competitions for children. The association involve close to 40,000 children and we provide much needed funding to assist these associations.
