The Westfield Community Program provides support to children with disabilities and their families by providing funds for therapy, equipment, respite programs that provide time out for families/carers, early intervention programs to deliver early diagnosis and treatment to young children and programs to inform and educate the community.

Since the program was established in 2008, we have raised over $1.6m to support our charity partners across Australia. 

We currently support over 30 not-for-profit organisations through our centres and initiatives at a national level, including Autism Spectrum Australia, Cerebral Palsy Alliance, Scope, Montrose  Access, CanDo4Kids and Telethon to name a few.

Every Westfield centre partners with a local children's disability service provider, giving centre staff, retailers and customers the opportunity to make a difference to families in their own local community.  

In May this year, across Australia we launched the inaugural Give Ability Day event in all Westfield centres and raised over $145,000 for our charity partners.  We look forward to Give Ability Day in May 2012 and hope to raise even more to support children with disabilities and their families. 

 With one in 14 Australian children living with a disability*, Westfield is committed to further developing the Community Program to drive greater financial and resource support to these children and their families to make a real difference in their lives.

* Source: ABS 2009; Australian Demographic Statistics lists 4,186,021 children in Australia age 0-14; Survey of Disability, Ageing & Carers, Australia lists 288,300 children age 0-14 with a disability.