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News Room News Room		Corporate Volunteers Lend a Hand

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18 October 2007 ExxonMobil Australia employees will swap their normal work duties for a day volunteering in the community next week. Twenty-seven community groups will receive lots of helping hands from ExxonMobil employees next Tuesday 23 October when the company runs its annual employee volunteering “Day of Caring” program. The volunteers will be busy gardening, cleaning, cooking for the homeless and organising a charity mail-out (see attached summary of community groups and locations). Alkira’s Chief Executive Officer Ray Cranwell said “Corporate volunteering is an effective way for us to recruit a group of volunteers to get a lot of work done quickly and we are grateful to ExxonMobil and its employees who are giving up their valuable work time to help us.” The ExxonMobil Day of Caring is one of the largest corporate volunteering programs run in partnership with the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Fund (LMCF)/United Way.  The program involves 270 ExxonMobil employees joining volunteer teams to work for a day to assist 27 community groups.  In total, the volunteers will provide the equivalent of 11 months’ worth of work hours to the community groups. This is the fifth year that ExxonMobil has run the program.  Groups to benefit from the Day of Caring include: Australian Red Cross, MS Society, Salvation Army and The Cancer Council. LMCF/United Way Chief Executive Officer Andrew Chappell said, “Corporate volunteering programs provide valuable support and savings to community groups and we are pleased to work with companies like ExxonMobil to support community services.” ExxonMobil Australia Chairman, Mark Nolan, said, “Corporate volunteering is one of the ways that the company supports local community groups in areas where we operate. “We are pleased to offer our employees the opportunity to volunteer and provide tangible assistance to community groups,” he said. ExxonMobil’s program was a highly commendable winner in the recent 2007 Volunteering Australia Award for Excellence in Corporate Volunteering.  Julie Pollard, Chief Executive Officer Volunteering Australia said, “ExxonMobil’s employee volunteering efforts have been recognised as an outstanding example of best practice, innovation and community contribution.” Media contact: Lisa Trood 03 9270 3440   2007 ExxonMobil Day of Caring  - List of Charities Group Volunteer Tasks Location Melbourne Metro Able Australia Cleaning, gardening and office assistance Heidelberg Alkira Centre Gardening Box Hill Araluen Planting and gardening Lower Plenty Australian Red Cross Sorting of clothes North Melbourne Bayley House Client activities & sanding. Brighton Bayside Secondary College Internal painting of classrooms, gardening Altona Mambourin Enterprises Working alongside clients, sanding & staining wood Werribee MS Society Gardening Watsonia Nadrasca Plant 1,000 native plants on the farm Vermont One Umbrella Food preparation & cooking Southbank Outlets Cooperative Neighbourhood House Assist with maintenance including cleaning, painting and gardening Newport Parks Victoria Collecting litter at Stony Creek Catchment Yarraville People Parks Foundation Park Victoria Weeding, rubbish collection & tree guard removal Hetherton Scope Assembly and packaging alongside clients Maribyrnong Scope (Clayton) Assembly and packaging alongside clients Clayton Seeing Eye Dogs Australia Maintenance & gardening Kensington Strathdon Community Activities with residents, gardening, and maintenance Forest Hill Taralye Christmas letter mail out Blackburn The Cancer Council Sorting of raffle mail; follow up raffle calls Carlton The Salvation Army Food preparation, cooking and drop-in centre Melbourne/City Vic Relief & Foodbank Scanning and sorting food, preparing food parcels Yarraville Regional Sites George Gray Centre Gardening Maffra Kilmany  Uniting Care General office clean up, maintenance of  toy library Foster Menzies Inc Sages Cottages Farm Build a garden setting and weeding Baxter Sale Elderly Citizens Village Gardening Sale Other States Association for the Blind (Guide Dogs)(WA) Prepare garden beds in new facility Perth Endeavour Foundation Brisbane Painting Brisbane

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