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Our favourite fluffy dog joined other pooches and their humans at the RSPCA Million Paws Walk at the University of Queensland in May. Dulux was proud to support the two-kilometre walk in Brisbane, one of 168 events across Australia that raised $16 million for RSPCA facilities and fighting animal cruelty. The annual event attracted 750,000 participants and 400,000 dogs nationwide.

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We were super excited to support the repainting of Portarlington Football Netball Club. With the Dulux dog overseeing work, Cats players Tom Stewart and Mitch Duncan joined club volunteers to transform Portarlington's facilities in time to celebrate its 150th birthday in August 2024.

Dulux is proud to support vulnerable young people in the Blue Mountains community through a donation of paint for the renovation of the Mountains Youth Services Team's Katoomba Youth Centre. Clashing colours were replaced with the Dulux scheme of Natural White™ and Colorbond® Ironstone® to create a calming and relaxing space at the centre that helps young people aged 12 to 24 overcome challenges and thrive through educational and recreational activities with the help of youth workers. Established in 1992, the team also provides services to help with personal development, mental health, family therapy, and individual counselling. It also helps young people in the LGBTQIA+, culturally and linguistically diverse, and Indigenous communities in the Blue Mountains region of NSW.

"We wanted express our heartfelt gratitude for the generous donation of Dulux paint required for our Katoomba Youth Centre renovation. Dulux's contribution has had a profound impact on our space, transforming it into a warm and welcoming environment for local young people, many of whom come from disadvantaged families or are facing life challenges. The joy on the young people's faces as they entered the newly updated space was truly priceless. One young person, visibly amazed, described it as 'mind-blowing' and 'really cool', which I think says it all! We are deeply grateful for your support – none of this would have been possible without Dulux."

Gailene Keen, Mountains Youth Services Team

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The tired concrete footpath of a Perth playground was transformed into a zippy racetrack alongside an update to faded play equipment thanks to volunteers from Bunnings Midland and Dulux. With a Dulux donation of 100L of Dulux Concrete & Paving products, the project at Swan View First Friends Playgroup was finished and dried easily within two days and ready for playtime.

Giant colourful passionflowers and butterflies have brightened the Hillarys Community Garden at the non-profit Whitford Family Centre in Perth thanks to Dulux, Bunnings and talented parents, artists and students. Providing a much-needed break from the pressure of exams, year 12 students from the neighbouring St Mark's Anglican Community School skillfully painted the mural with vibrant Dulux colours in Dulux Weathershield® exterior paint donated by Dulux with tools from Bunnings. The centre provides services including pre-kindergarten programs, out-of-school care, toy library, and playgroup as well as adult activities such as first aid and parent information.

A dull black room was transformed into a sensory room at the Act for Kids' therapy and education centre in suburban Brisbane. The non-profit organisation helps disadvantaged youth get through school and into the community productively by providing therapy and support services from psychologists, speech and occupational therapists, early education specialists, counsellors, and family support workers. Staff from the Dulux Trade Centres in Aspley and Coopers Plains volunteered their time to use donated Dulux paint, tools and equipment to lighten the room with the warm Antique White U.S.A.® in Dulux Wash&Wear® Anti-Scuff with Vivid White™ doors in Dulux Aquanamel® and the ceiling in Dulux envirO₂™.

Creating an appealing space to help keep young people interested, active, off their devices and learning valuable life skills was the goal of 1st Wattle Grove Scouts. To match its ambition its hall in south-west Sydney desperately needed renovation, having not been upgraded since it was donated by the Defence Force more than 20 years ago. Dulux representatives and painters from the NSW Dulux Accredited Painters program, including George Roumpanis of Contemporary Finishes Painting and Toby Potter of Potter's Premium Painting joined forces to voluntarily transform the facility from a dark-coloured hall to light and brightly painted walls, ceilings, windows, bathrooms and toilets as well as a surf mural with a donation of Dulux paint.

The Riding for the Disabled Association centre received a repaint thanks to volunteers from the Lidcombe Dulux Trade Centre in Sydney. The kitchen and horse arena at the Richmond facility. The association provides activities including riding, carriage driving, dressage and programs to increase life skills, self-esteem and self-confidence.