National community support

Every November, Share the Dignity calls on Australians to help ensure women and girls experiencing domestic violence, homelessness or period poverty, receive basic essentials to brighten their Christmas through their annual ‘It’s in the Bag’ campaign.

The initiative encourages people to fill a handbag with a toothbrush, toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, soap, roll-on-deodorant, and period products alongside optional extras like lip balm, socks and a handwritten note.

This year, bags filled with essential items can be dropped to any Bunnings store between Friday 15 November until Sunday 1 December.

Customers can also purchase virtual bag online here, which enables Share the Dignity to create a bag on their behalf for women and girls in need for Christmas.

Learn more about Share the Dignity.

Bunnings is teaming up with the Big Freeze again this year. We're lending a hand to fight the 'Beast', and you can too.

Bunnings is proud to be an ongoing supporter of FightMND, raising funds by selling Big Freeze 10 Beanies in our stores and online from 8th May to 20th June.

This year, we are also holding a FightMND BBQ Fundraiser on the 25th of May at all stores nationally. All proceeds go towards funding Motor Neurone Disease (MND) research and care initiatives.

Founded in 2014, FightMND was established with the purpose of finding effective treatments and ultimately a cure for Motor Neurone Disease.

We recognise the considerable challenges and suffering that those living with MND and their families are faced with every day, with many of our team members and customers experiencing first-hand the impacts of this brutal disease.

Every year our team throw themselves behind this partnership with great enthusiasm, sharing photos of themselves wearing the beanies with pride, decorating their in-store A-Frames and encouraging family and friends to support the campaign.

When natural disasters happen, Bunnings store teams are there to assist those in need through local hands-on activity, fundraising BBQs and product donations. When the recovery phase begins, our teams make it a priority to continue to actively support communities. 

Following the extreme weather and flooding which hit Victoria and parts of New South Wales and Tasmania in October 2022, Bunnings threw its support behind The Salvation Army’s Flood Relief. In true Bunnings style, we gathered behind the BBQ at every store in Australia and helped raise and contribute $400,000 towards The Salvation Army’s Flood Relief.

All funds raised through the Reds Run BBQ went towards supporting impacted communities through the emergency and recovery phase. The funds allowed the Salvos to be on the ground immediately and for the long haul, with financial grants along with practical and emotional assistance. Our teams in flood impacted regions also actively assisted with product donations and support and care for those who were displaced.

In January 2023, extreme weather and floods impacted communities across the Kimberley region in northern Western Australia. Bunnings provided support through product donations and assisted collectively with the broader Wesfarmers family.

Bunnings further supported with a state-based Reds Run sausage sizzle and the Western Australian communities showed up in great numbers. The Bunnings WA team, along with the additional support from the Wesfarmers team and The Salvation Army volunteers, raised and contributed over $50,000. These funds were donated to The Salvation Army to support impacted communities through the emergency and recovery phases of the Western Australian floods.