Shell's Social Investment Programme in Australia

Southern Bell frog

Shell EcoVolunteers

This project continues the tradition of collaboration between Conservation Volunteers Australia and Shell, who together delivered the national coastal rehabilitation project Shell Coastal Volunteers between 2001 and 2008.

Shell EcoVolunteers builds on the work that was delivered through Shell Coastal Volunteers. The new project is a national effort to engage the community and enhance their understanding of the impacts of climate change.

The work of Shell EcoVolunteers will be focused in three key locations:

• Western Australia (monitoring turtle populations in the north west)
• Victoria (improving the habitat of the southern bell frog in Geelong)
• Queensland (rainforests of the Atherton Tablelands)

Through associated initiatives such as our climate change workshops and volunteering opportunities, the impact will be felt nationally.

For more information on Conservation Volunteers Australia, visit www.conservationvolunteers.com.au/shellecovolunteers - opens in new window or call Conservation Volunteers Australia on 1800 031 501.

Shell Questacon Science Circus

The Shell Questacon Science Circus is an award-winning outreach science education programme run through Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre and The Australian National University.

The specially equipped Science Circus truck, loaded with more than 50 interactive exhibits and props for science shows, tours regional, rural and remote parts of Australia.

Sixteen young scientists studying a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication make science and technology fun for more than 80,000 school students, their teachers and families in communities all around Australia each year.

For more information on the Shell Questacon Science Circus, visit www.sciencecircus.questacon.edu.au - opens in new window

Carbon Kids

CarbonKids is a CSIRO initiative which encourages schools to commit to tackling climate change.

Combining the latest science with sustainability education, it helps school communities understand climate change and encourages positive actions that make a direct contribution to becoming more sustainable.

The pilot programme is being conducted with funding support from Shell.

For more information on CSIRO, visit www.csiro.au/products/carbonkids-resource - opens in new window

Let’s Read

Lets Read programme

Let’s Read is a comprehensive early literacy program that promotes the importance of reading with young children from birth to five years. Let’s Read was developed by the Centre for Community Child Health, a research centre of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and is being implemented across Australia in partnership with the The Smith Family.  Shell in Australia has been the inaugural corporate supporter of Let's Read since 2005.  In that time, more than 100,000 children across Australia have been involved in Let's Read.

Now that the programme is well established and continuing to expand, Shell is able to step back from its support from the end of March 2010.

For more information on Let's Read, visit www.letsread.com.au - opens in new window

Indigenous Community Volunteers

Shell is a corporate supporter of Indigenous Community Volunteers (ICV).  Indigenous Community Volunteers places skilled volunteers in Indigenous communities to facilitate the transfer of skills.

For more information on ICV, visit www.icv.com.au - opens in new window

METEC

Victoria Police, METEC and Shell join forces to improve driver training.
Developed by METEC, Victoria Police, driving instructors and a range of community groups, the driver training program helps to provide students with the information and practical skills they need to obtain a Learner’s Permit.

More than 70 indigenous and refugee students each year benefit from the driver training program, which aims to teach basic driving skills in a safe environment.

For more information on METEC, visit www.metec.com.au - opens in new window

The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research

The Telethon Institute for Child Health Research

Shell is supporting the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in its implementation of The Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) Indigenous Adapation Study.

The Study is being developed by the Kulunga Research Network at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research with the Centre for Developmental Health (Curtin University).

The project is receiving vital funding from Shell and the Federal Government’s Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).

The Study is adapting the highly successful Australian Early Development Index to ensure it takes into account cultural differences in child development.

The Study is being conducted as part of the national AEDI program managed by the Centre by Community Child Health in partnership with the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.

For more information on the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, visit www.ichr.uwa.edu.au - opens in new window