BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund

BankSA is a major supporter of charities within South Australia and the Northern Territory. These funds are primarily provided through the BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund.

The Fund was established in 1941, when staff of the Savings Bank of South Australia (BankSA’s predecessor) decided to send comfort parcels to colleagues serving in the armed forces in the Middle East.

Staff agreed to donate part of their salary toward the purchase of items that would provide some comfort to serving staff. These items included socks, coffee, tea, chocolate and copies of local papers.

At the completion of the war and following the return of service men and women, staff of the Bank agreed to continue to provide financial support. Staff decided to assist various returned service leagues and other organisations that were established to support service men, women and their immediate families.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of this special act of generosity, and to commemorate, BankSA will conduct a modern-day comfort pack to be dispatched to some 200 serving SA troops overseas. This comfort pack includes lots of South Australian goodies including:

• Charlesworth Nuts
• Angas Park Fruit
• Robern Menz Fruchocs
• Beerenberg Jams
• A BankSA and Staff Charitable Fund sewing kit
• A Red Cross key ring

The comfort parcel will be packaged up by Bedford Industries and delivered in a box supplied by Allbox Direct.

Today, the Fund continues to support many of these charities, and many more, with funds donated by staff and BankSA. Approximately 120 charities receive financial support from the Fund each year.

Charities
Adelaide Day Centre for Homeless Persons	Alzheimer’s Australia SA
Anglicare SA	Animal Welfare League
Arthritis Foundation of SA	Asthma SA
Aust. Huntington's Disease Ass.	Australian Red Cross - NT
Australian Red Cross - SA	Autism SA
Baptist Care SA	Barkuma Inc
Bedford	Birthline
Blind Welfare Assoc of SA	Camp Quality
Can do 4 Kids - (Townsend House)	Cancer Care Centre
Carers Australia SA	Careworks Aust (Church of Christ)
Catholic Charities	Coeliac Society
Cora Barclay Centre	Cystic Fibrosis SA
Hutt Street Centre	Daw House Hospice Foundation
Deaf CanDo (Royal SA Deaf Society)	Diabetes SA
Down Syndrome Society	Elder Care Inc
The Epilepsy Centre	Flinders Medical Centre
Guide Dogs SA.NT	Helping Hand
Hudson Maher Foundation	Interchange Inc.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation	Kids Future Kids
Leukaemia Foundation	Lutheran Community Care
Make a Wish Foundation	Mary Potter Foundation
McGuiness McDermott Foundation	M.E./C.F.S. Australia SA
Meals on Wheels Inc	Minda Inc.
Mission Australia	Motor Neurone Disease Association SA
Multiple Sclerosis Society	Muscular Dystrophy Association
Heart Foundation	Novita Children Services
Offenders Aid & Rehabilitation Services of SA Inc	Operation Flinders Foundation
Orana Inc	Palliative Care Council of SA Inc
ParaQuad SA	Phoenix Society Inc
Poliomyelitis Welfare Assoc	Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Riding for the Disabled	Ronald McDonald House
Royal Adelaide Hospital	Royal Flying Doctor Service
Royal Life Saving Society of Australia	Royal Society for the Blind of SA Inc
Salvation Army	Service to Youth Council
Sids and Kids	Smith Family
Sommerville Community Services	Southern Cross Care SA
Spastic Centres of SA Inc.	SPELD SA
Spina Bifida Assoc of SA	St Ann's Special School
St Johns Ambulance Australia SA Inc	St Johns Youth Services Inc
St Joseph's Family Care Centre	St Vincent de Paul
Suneden Special School	Teen Challenge SA Inc
Cancer Council	Toc H SA Inc
Tubercular Soldiers Aid	United Care - Wesley (Pt Adelaide)
Uniting Church / Frontier Services	Victims Support Services
Women's & Children's Hospital	YMCA of Adelaide Inc.
YWCA of Adelaide Inc	Childhood Cancer Association
Lyell McEwin Hospital	Royal Darwin Hospital
Modbury Special School	Royal District Nursing Service
Surf Life Saving SA	United Care – Wesley (Adelaide)

The BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund is administered by a committee of elected bank staff.

This committee meets monthly to discuss the donation of these funds to charity

For further details regarding the BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund please contact:

The Secretary
BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund
Level 1, 97 King William Street
Adelaide SA 5000

Ph (08) 8424 4444
Email strategymarketing@banksa.com.au

Apply for a donation through the BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund

Registered charities can apply for a donation from the BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund. To qualify for funding, charities must meet the following criteria:

• Charity must be South Australian or Northern Territory based. Charitable organisations with offices, divisions, and branches in either South Australia or the Northern Territory are eligible.

• The Charity must be a registered Australian charity endorsed as a deductible gift recipient (but not another ancillary fund). Deductible Gift Recipients must be listed with the Australian Taxation Office under Item 1of the Table in Section 30–15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act, 1936.

• The Fund makes donations available to charities on a "gift" basis. Charities seeking assistance from the Fund for sponsorship, or on a grant type basis, will not be successful.

The Fund cannot provide donations to individuals or organisations that do not meet the criteria.

Further information on the BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund

For more information on the Fund, or to send a request for a donation, please address correspondence to the following, or telephone the Secretary of the Fund.

The Secretary
BankSA & Staff Charitable Fund
PO Box 399
Adelaide SA 5001
Telephone: (08) 8424 4444
Fax: (08) 8424 4410