Sponsorship

Sponsorship & Prizes

FGB donates sponsorship prizes to community activities nationally throughout the year. A variety of groups have been assisted including; Sports Centres, Community Groups, Hospitals, Kindergartens, Schools and Playgroups.

Donations

FGB Company and staff are committed to raising funds
for non-profit organisations.

Due to staff involvement and concern, FGB promotes
two key support groups:

• Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, raising money and awareness for cancer research.
• Jeans for Genes Day that raises money and awareness for the Children's Medical Research Institute for its vital research programmes into understanding the causes of diseases and illnesses in children.

Any monies raised by the staff is matched by a Company donation of equal or greater value.

Due to one staff members interest and involvement, FGB has also supported and donated money to Deaf Ministries International. This group helps raise money for children in third world countries who are deaf. It provides money to build schools to educate these children and provide them with a language and the power of communication. Each year we hold a “Christmas in July” for FGB Staff which has proved very successful.

Local Community Activity

Bosisto’s Eucalyptus continues to be a proud sponsor of activities within the Inglewood and Wedderburn area where Bosisto’s harvests the Blue Mallee (Eucalyptus Polybractea).

Sponsorship activities include donating to the Blue Eucy Festival, a celebration of the local area including eucalyptus oil and the Blue Mallee. Donations are also made to the football club, school, sports club and other charity organisations in the community.

FGB also sponsor a number of local community activities including the Tea Tree Oil Fishing Competition on the Mornington Peninsula in Vic and the Wedderburn Detector Jamboree Festival in Wedderburn, Vic.

FGB is also committed to encouraging and supporting eucalyptus oil use and the eucalyptus oil industry. Bosisto’s has been “first in eucalyptus since 1852” and remains market leader with vision to continue building the long-term viability of the industry in Australia.

Royal Botanic Gardens

Commencing in 2006, FGB is a proud sponsor of the Royal Botanic Gardens of Melbourne and Cranbourne. Sponsorship involves the donation of Euca-Mulch to both Gardens and a close association to the new Australian Garden development in Cranbourne, specifically their new “Eucalypt Walk”. This involves signage in the Eucalypt Walk. Expanded activities in 2007 include promotions in both Garden shops, a talk on Eucalyptus Oil and preliminary discussions regarding an educational mobile distillation still.

In 2008 the aim is to finalise and have an operational distillation still for school groups. On-going talks to groups including Friends of the Gardens will also help strengthen the relationship.

The RBG was chosen as a key sponsorship of Bosisto’s in part due to a long historical association. In 1852, Baron Ferdinand von Mueller - a Victorian Government Botanist who was fascinated with the properties of eucalyptus oil - encouraged a young pharmacist named Joseph Bosisto to set up Australia's first commercial eucalyptus oil distillery, near Menzies creek in Dandenong. Thus Bosisto’s Eucalyptus Oil began.

Over 150 years later, Bosisto's has come full circle by assisting the Royal Botanic gardens to celebrate and preserve this unique piece of Australian history for future generations.

For more information on the Royal Botanic Gardens, please visit www.rbg.vic.gov.au.