Community Support

Our community is at the heart of what we do, big and small.

In collaboration with the Spotlight Foundation, Spotlight Retail Group supports organisations with material and in-kind donations that champion the brand's ethos: allowing our customers to express themselves creatively in their homes and communities.

Spotlight Community Support

• Starlight Children’s Foundation
• Wrap With Love
• Crafts For A Cause
• Australian Packaging Covenant
• Stitch In Time
• Good 360
• Donation & Support Requests

Starlight Children’s Foundation

Spotlight has partnered with the Starlight Children’s Foundation Since 2019. As their Official Creativity Partner, we provide art, craft and party supplies to Starlight Express Rooms nationwide. With the help of our customers’ generous donations, Starlight has been able to create positive Starlight experiences for seriously ill children in paediatric hospitals across Australia.

In May 2024, Spotlight raised an incredible $177,489 to donate to the Starlight Children's Foundation. Our Spotlight & Starlight Children’s Foundation page features inspiring Starlight Stories, and more about how our support helps transform the hospital experience of thousands of sick kids each year.

Wrap With Love

Spotlight in partnership with World Vision Australia proudly supports Wrap With Love, a grassroots organisation making and distributing blankets to displaced, refugee and homeless communities around the world. Spotlight customers can knit or crochet squares and blankets to be collected and distributed by Wrap with Love.

One Square At A Time

Spotlight is partnering with World Vision and Wrap with Love for the "One Square at a Time" campaign to help provide the warmth and shelter of a hand-knitted blanket to those most in need, all around the world.

Spotlight stores will serve as a national collection point for keen knitters and crocheters to drop off their "squares" to then be made into warming blankets by the dedicated team of volunteers at Wrap With Love.

Wrap With Love, a Sydney-based non for profit organisation, has been making hand-knitted blankets and wraps for communities around the world the past 27 years. International Humanitarian agency World Vision plays a vital role in the Wrap With Love journey. Over the last 15 years, it has distributed around 150,000 'Wrap with Love' wraps to vulnerable children and families in countries around the world including Afghanistan, Burundi, Malawi, Somalia, Iraq, Lesotho and Zimbabwe - providing in many cases life-saving warmth in the most dire circumstances.

The completed blankets take 150 hours to make, are a single bed size and can be worn as a wrap or as a blanket on a bed.

Wrap With Love Donations

Your donations of knitted or crocheted squares will be stitched into blankets by Wrap With Love volunteers before being distributed to communities in need. You can use whatever yarn you have at home or shop from Spotlight’s huge range of knitting yarn & crochet yarn online or in-store.

Finished squares can be dropped off at the designated collection points in all Spotlight stores.

Alternatively, squares can be posted directly to Wrap With Love in Sydney:

Mail: PO Box 10, Rosebery NSW 1445
Deliveries: Unit 4, 4 Huntley Street, Alexandria NSW 2015 (Wednesdays and Fridays 9.30am - 2.30pm)

Crafts For A Cause

Spotlight celebrates every maker who provides their time and their skills to give to others. In this spirit we have created Spotlight Crafts for a Cause, a Facebook community for like-minded crafters to come together and share the work they are doing and the causes they are supporting. Looking to get started making for charity? Join the conversation at Crafts for a Cause.

Australian Packaging Covenant

The Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) represents a commitment by governments and industry to the sustainable design, use and recovery of packaging. It is the voluntary component of a co-regulatory model designed to reduce the environmental impacts of consumer packaging by encouraging improvements in packaging design, higher recycling rates and better stewardship of packaging.

Find out more about the measurements for success and how we’re tracking in the Spotlight APCO Annual Report & Action Plan 2024.

Stitch In Time

The Stitch in Time program was launched in November 2006 and was developed specifically to empower vulnerable women living in poverty by teaching them a vocational skill (sewing) that enabled them to generate an income and better their circumstances. Over the years, the program expanded to include key partnerships in Vietnam, Cambodia and Maningrida in the Northern Territory as well as numerous community organisations around Australia.

In Siem Reap, Cambodia, Spotlight ran a Stitch in Time sewing centre with Together for Cambodia. Women employed in the centre were able to hand make goods for local businesses such as schools and hotels and thereby make a living for themselves. Our relationship is still strong and we currently still support Together for Cambodia and their children's home for approximately 40 at risk or orphaned children.

We are also looking to expand Stitch in Time in Australia which we have previously done with the Sundanese Communities via Stand up in Dandenong and Sunshine.

Good 360

The Spotlight Foundation, Spotlight Stores & Anaconda support Good 360, an incredible organisation that repurposes surplus brand new goods and directs them to Australians who need them most. Their goal is to make sure that nothing useful lies unused and our stores are thrilled to support them whenever possible.

Donation & Support Requests

For donation and support requests, please email community@spotlight.com.au and our friendly team will be happy to chat. Please note we receive a large amount of requests and will respond as quickly as we can.