Community & Corporate Philanthropy

We have drawn strength from our local community and we have been blessed with a healthy and profitable business. It has long been a core value that we would contribute back into our community and share some of our profit.

We have particularly favoured support for artistic projects which we believe enhance community life. We also have worked closely with environmental repair. Two of these themes come together in our rainforest garden in Ballina and the Thursday Plantation East Coast Sculpture Show. The gardens include a delightful section of re-established littoral rainforest, where we planted over 4,000 natives while preserving the biodiversity of this remnant.

Through these beautiful gardens is set a wonderful collection of great sculptures from around Australia. Fountains and a lovely walkway also grace the gardens surrounding our factory. Our sponsorship of outdoor sculpture has seen this art form flourish over the past decade, and we now have one of the finest collections in regional Australia on permanent display. There is also a Visitors Education Centre and restaurant with nearly 40,000 visitors a year. It is open 7 days a week.

Our gardens include a magnificent maze made from Tea Tree and Lilly Pilly called “The Spirit of Australia”. This adjoins a natural outdoor amphitheatre in which we have many wonderful concerts and special events which draw thousands of people.

We have established long term collaborations with wonderful ventures such as The Woodford Folk Festival and Northern Rivers Performing Arts and the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival. We have maintained strong links with environmental causes starting with regeneration of a small pocket of rainforest on our own land, and a long time sponsor relationship with Rainforest Rescue, a leading organisation for conservation of rainforest.

The Thursday Plantation East Coast Sculpture Show each year presents a fascinating exhibition of about 80 contemporary works. They join a growing permanent collection of award-winning sculptures by Australian artists from all over the East Coast of Australia, particularly show-casing the art of talented people from the Northern Rivers region.

For more information, contact: sculpture@tphealth.com

Australia's leading folk festival sets a unique standard in the world for a comprehensive cultural experience which embraces not only a vast array of superb music, but includes aboriginal culture, political discussions, comedy, religion, fine art creations, environmental development, philosophical discourse and fabulous theatre and ritual. This is the way the world should be.

Rainforest Rescue is a not for profit organisation committed to saving our rainforests for current and future generations. Rainforests contain Australia's greatest diversity of plants and animals. Nationally, over 75% of Australia's rainforests have been cleared and the remnants need your help to survive against the impact of fragmentation, weeds, fire and other threats.

Thanks Dad Photos

Enter our National Photo Competition. $1500 prizes!
Thank dads and all men who have positive times with our children by entering their photo in the sixth annual Thanks Dad National Photo Competition. $100 cash prizes in each category.

Entries close 25th August each year.

We also support dozens of smaller charities and community projects in our region which find it hard to attract cash donations. Some of the wonderful organisations we have helped in the past are listed here. We encourage you where possible to also offer your own support in kind or in cash to assist these wonderful organisations that hold our society together.

• Uncle Project
     – original mentoring program for boys without fathers – Byron Bay
• Aunty Project
     – a follow on from the Uncle group, with women providing mentoring for young girls
• Women’s Refuge
     – supporting sufferers of domestic violence
• Men Against Violence
     – providing support to men by assisting with anger management techniques
• Sailability
     – sailing project for the disabled in Lennox Head
• Lismore Lantern Parade
     – an annual magical experience for all ages
• Lismore Herb & Health Festival
     – an annual event celebrating healthy, natural, living
• Northern Rivers Community Foundation
     – helping to create an ongoing legacy fund to support people in need throughout the region
• Gawler Foundation
     – providing inspiration and strength to cancer sufferers
• The Sydney Flute Academy
• Lions Club
• The Buttery
     – assisting in drug rehabilitation
• Camp Quality
     – providing fun escapes for children suffering with cancer
• Rivafest
     – annual Ballina Shire celebration of life on the beautiful Richmond River
• Shearwater Wearable Arts Performance
     – local Steiner school arts initiative