Westpac Restore Inner West Habitat

On Thursday 31st October 2024, Greater Sydney Landcare hosted a corporate volunteering day for 21 employees from Westpac. The location was Marrickville Golf, Sporting & Community Club in the Inner West LGA.

Greater Sydney Landcare’s Matt Keighery led the day with three members of The Mudcrabs—a local community group of eco-volunteers that work on environmental conservation efforts along the Cooks River.

Matt greatly appreciated the Westpac team’s efforts and said: “It’s incredible what we achieved.” 

“Firstly, we demolished a shed and removed 750 kg of debris including old roller doors, astro turf and the termite-ridden shed itself.”

“This will allow for native plant regeneration in the future and already enables new sightlines to the Cooks River and improved amenity for the Community.”

“Secondly, we planted 250 native trees and shrubs across two sites on approximately 300 square metres of land.”

“And last but not least, we removed approximately 20 square metres of exotic vegetation (weeds) including Lantana, Cestrum and Bidens that was competing with native plants previously planted by Greater Sydney Landcare.”

Matt said the Westpac group were fantastic and a pleasure to work with.

Thank you to Westpac, the Mudcrabs, and Marrickville Golf Club for working together with Greater Sydney Landcare to achieve these fantastic environmental outcomes.

This work was part of a larger long-term effort by Greater Sydney Landcare and partners to realise a landscape-scale restoration project.

It aims to increase amenity, habitat and aesthetics through control of exotic vegetation and removal of rubbish on an incredibly important Inner West green space alongside the Cooks River. This work is supported by Landcare Australia, Hawke’s Brewing, and Greater Sydney Landcare’s Creating Canopies project amongst others.

The aim of the Marrickville Golf Club President, Andrew Tighe, is to make Marrickville Golf Club a botanic garden of native plants within which people can play golf.

Join the Inner West’s Bushcare Program

If you’d like to contribute to environmental efforts in the Inner West, you can become a Bushcare volunteer and regenerate bushland. No experience is necessary as training is provided.

Come Corporate Volunteering with Greater Sydney Landcare

Greater Sydney Landcare has hosted dozens of companies for Corporate Volunteering days to restore Greater Sydney’s environment. Will yours be next? Download our Corporate Volunteering Info Pack for more info.

Get Involved in Creating Canopies

If you’d like to find out how to get free trees planted on your land, visit our Register Your Site for Trees page.

Come along and plant trees with Creating Canopies. Find out what events we have coming up on Greater Sydney Landcare’s Eventbrite page.

About Creating Canopies

Landcare NSW and Greater Sydney Landcare are planting 200,000 trees as part of the Greening our City program to help reduce urban heat in Greater Sydney. Proudly funded by the NSW Government.