Current Corporate Relationships

Lifeline Australia's Corporate Partners, Supporters and Workplace Giving Partners.

Lifeline Australia would like to acknowledge our current Corporate Partners, Sponsors, Workplace Giving Partners and Supporters. The support, products, services, expertise and/or funding provided by these organisations assists and encourages Lifeline Australia to both meet and exceed its strategic objectives each year. Lifeline is committed to ensuring that emotional support and care is accessible to every Australian wherever they are, whenever they need it, and our Corporate Partners, Sponsors and Supporters are helping us to realise this goal.

MLC Community Foundation

Lifeline Australia is excited to become the new flagship partner of MLC Community Foundation as of June 2008. MLC Community Foundation is providing valuable support to enhance Lifeline's 24 hour telephone counselling service.

MLC Community Foundation is also a major partner supporting Lifeline's 2009 Stress Down Day national fundraising campaign. Find out about the activities that Lifeline and MLC Community Foundation are working together on over the next three years. MLC and Lifeline activities.

Stacks of Snacks

Stacks of Snacks is Australian owned and is the worlds largest workplace snack box provider, specialising in workplace confectionery snacks. Stacks of Snacks snack boxes are placed at organisations at various locations throughout Australia. Currently there are over 30,000 organisations with a regularly serviced Stacks of Snacks box.

From January 2010, Stacks of Snacks will donate a royalty from every piece sold to Lifeline Australia to support national services,such as our 24 hour telephone counselling line – 13 11 14.

This support is significant.

Please consider placing a box in your workplace to help reciprocate the fantastic support that Stacks of Snacks are giving Lifeline.

MTAA

Since 2004, the Motor Trades Superannuation Fund (MTAA Super) and Lifeline Australia have been working together to implement a joint help-seeking and suicide prevention campaign, titled readthesigns. This partnership has been established to increase awareness of options for seeking help for MTAA Super members, particularly in situations involving mental health or suicide. The partnership is also developing awareness and skills in MTAA Super members in recognising and responding to individuals who may be at risk of suicide and/or who have been affected by a suicide.

In achieving these objectives, the readthesigns campaign consists broadly of three components. These include a communications campaign, mental health and suicide prevention training (through providing depression awareness and suicide awareness training to apprentice group training scheme) and the provision of resources to support people who have been impacted by the suicide of a loved one, friend or colleague.

In 2007, the Lifeline/MTAA partnership won the Business/Industry category in the LIFE Awards from Suicide Prevention Australia.

The readthesigns campaign is continuing to achieve great results in 2009. For further information on the campaign visit the supporting website www.readthesigns.com.au

Creative Promotions

Creative Promotions is another valued national corporate partner for Lifeline Australia. Creative Promotions provides support to Lifeline Australia in the design, development, warehousing and order fulfilment of Lifeline merchandise. Creative Promotions will be assisting Lifeline Australia to launch a new national online store in 2009 through which our merchandise may be ordered. Lifeline has worked with Creative Promotions for the past two years, most recently on our Stress Down Day campaign and is proud to continue this successful relationship.

Orange Whip Films

Orange Whip Films generously produced Lifeline's rural themed community service announcement which was aired on television stations nationally in 2007/2008.

Lifeline's ability to remain responsive to Australians in rural and remote communities, has been significantly enhanced through the production of this wonderful advertisement by Orange Whip Films.

View the Drought CSA here

Orange Whip Films have also produced Lifeline's 'Stress Down Day' campaign advertisements in 2008 and 2009. The attention to detail, time, enthusiasm and support from Orange Whip Films has been invaluable for Lifeline.

View the 2009 Stress Down Day CSA's by visiting stressdown.org.au

Find out more about Orange Whip Films here: www.orangewhipfilms.com.au

Cavill + Co

As the leading not-for-profit partner of The HeartSmart® NPO Toolkit, Lifeline Australia is supporting a world-first resource for not-for-profit organisations.

The HeartSmart® NPO Toolkit is a distance education program that will helps NPOs to build best practice partnerships with the corporate sector. It has been developed by Cavill + Co, Australia’s leading corporate-cause partnership builder, with the help of Lifeline and a team of corporate, communications and not-for-profit organisations.

Lifeline has trialled the Toolkit and offered feedback and advice to Cavill + Co to develop the education materials and support program. Lifeline’s contribution to the Toolkit has ensured that it is a highly relevant and effective training resource for Australian not-for-profit organisations.

Find out about the toolkit at www.cavill.com.au

The following corporate entities are valued supporters of Lifeline Australia.

Prime Super

Prime Super is Australia's only nationally operating super fund dedicated to rural and regional Australia. With approximately 150,000 members and more than $1 billion in funds under management, they understand what their employers and members need from their super fund.

Prime Super's flagship community partnership is with Lifeline Australia. They are the proud sponsor of the Lifeline Information Service because they understand the issues that many people who live in rural and regional areas can face and that sometimes a little help is needed to help get you through.

The Lifeline Information Service is a self help resource for promoting mental health awareness, help seeking and suicide prevention. It offers a range of informative tool kits which provide practical tips and self-help strategies to help prevent and respond to a number of issues.

The service is able to link callers to information, services, support groups and online resources. It also provides information and referral for people with mental health problems, and to friends, relatives and others who want to know how to help the people around them.

Click here to access the Lifeline Information Service or call 1300 13 11 14.

For more information about Prime Super visit www.primesuper.com.au or call 1800 675 839.

Taxation Institute of Australia

From the 1st of July 2009 the Taxation Institute of Australia will be a Lifeline Corporate Supporter.

The Taxation Institute is the pre-eminent association for tax professionals in Australia. As the leader in tax education, it provides Members and the tax profession with extensive learning resources, advocacy and tax education seminars, conventions, publications and the Structured Education Program.

The Taxation Institute has more than 15,000 members including a comprehensive cross section of leading tax accountants, lawyers, tax agents, managers and academics.

The Lifeline and TIA relationship aims to raise awareness and funds for Lifeline’s services through the promotion of Lifeline’s services within TIA’s membership through free advertising space in TIA trade journals, at conferences and other TIA events.

For more information on Taxation Institute of Australia visit www.taxinstitute.com.au

Creative Festival Entertainment

Creative Festival Entertainment, better known as Big Day Out has supported Lifeline since 2001. Their support has included: donating a percentage of their profit from Big Day Out merchandise sales to the Lifeline Suicide Prevention fund; providing free stalls and free tickets to each of the Big Day Out shows in 2009.

Creative Festival Entertainment’s support has provided Lifeline with the opportunity to raise awareness of mental health issues and promote its message of suicide prevention within the youth market.

SEEK

Over the past few years, Seek and its employees have shown their support for Lifeline through their workplace giving program, corporate donations, employee volunteer program and the provision of office space for the Lifeline Australia Corporate Relations team.

To find out more about Seek, Australia’s number 1 job site, please visit www.seek.com.au

Liberty International Underwriters

Liberty International Underwriters (LIU)™, a division of Liberty Mutual Group, is a global specialty lines insurance business and one of the most dynamic and responsive insurers in the Asia Pacific region.

LIU has provided funding for Lifeline’s Suicide Crisis Support Program which provides short term crisis support for people at high risk of suicide. LIU has also shown its support and raised awareness and funds for Lifeline through an online art auction and the design and distribution of an online e-Christmas card.

For more information on Liberty International Underwriters visit www.liuaustralia.com.au

The following organisations and their employees have elected to support Lifeline through workplace giving programs.

• ANZ
• Aviva
• BATA
• CAF Australia
• Department of Ageing, Disability & Home Care NSW
• Department of Health & Ageing
• Dunn & Bradstreet
• Insurance Group Australia
• Integral Energy
• Ninemsn
• Oroton
• OneSteel
• Perpetual
• SEEK Limited
• Skilled Group