CORPORATE
SUPPORT
Rally your team. Back local students. Shape Western Sydney’s future.
The Stay the Course Walk gives corporate teams a simple, visible way to support Friends of Western Sydney and invest in the region’s future workforce.
For corporate partners, it is a high-value activation that brings together staff engagement, brand visibility, and credible community impact in one clear opportunity.
Every corporate entry helps students facing the real barriers that put university completion at risk — financial pressure, housing instability, food insecurity, transport costs, and lack of essential study tools.
Why join as a corporate team?
- Engage your people in a meaningful team experience
- Show visible support for Western Sydney’s future workforce
- Align your brand with real, measurable community impact
- Demonstrate purpose in action through a practical, high-visibility activation
- Help capable students finish their degrees and stay local
Corporate Packages
Corporate Supporter
$2,500
$2,000 tax deductible* donation + $500 participation fee + GST
Best suited for small to medium businesses seeking credible staff engagement and practical support for student success.
Includes:
- Entry for up to 4 team members
- Participant packs
- Corporate recognition on event materials
- Group team photo and stage shout-out
Recognition on the Friends of Western Sydney website
Your impact: Helps students access emergency bursaries, food support, transport, digital access, study materials and wraparound care.
Corporate Champion
$5,000
$4,000 tax deductible* donation + $1,000 participation fee + GST
Organisations looking to deepen staff engagement, increase brand visibility and support Western Sydney’s future workforce.
Includes:
- Everything in Corporate Supporter
- Entry for up to 10 team members
- Participant packs
Social media acknowledgement
Logo recognition on selected signage
Option to provide a short quote for campaign communications
Your impact: Helps fund bursaries and student success initiatives that remove financial and personal barriers so students can stay the course and graduate.
Founding Corporate Partner
$10,000
$8,000 tax deductible* donation + $2,000 participation fee + GST
Major employers, civic partners, corporate foundations, regional businesses, councils, sporting clubs, financial institutions and organisations seeking leadership visibility.
Includes:
- Everything in Corporate Supporter
- Entry for up to 20 team members
- Participant packs
- Premium recognition, priority placement and prominent website recognition
- Dedicated social media acknowledgement and event signage logo recognition
- Branded checkpoint table or activation point
- Post-event donor/supporter recognition and named Student Support Fund
- Senior representative invitations and founding supporter acknowledgement
Your impact: Helps establish a named Student Support Fund, expanding bursaries, paid placements, mentoring and practical support for students completing their degrees locally.
The Impact You’re Making
Friends of Western Sydney helps capable students complete their degrees and stay in the region — strengthening the skilled local workforce Western Sydney needs.
By joining the Stay the Course Walk, your organisation helps students overcome the pressures that can force them to stop studying. That means more students finishing university, more graduates staying local, and more talent flowing into critical fields including health, education, engineering, technology and business.
This is more than an event entry. It is an investment in student success, regional capability, and Western Sydney’s future.
Bring your team together and help students stay the course.
Supporting the future of Western Sydney
Western Sydney is entering a defining decade. As the region grows and major infrastructure projects accelerate, demand for skilled local graduates is rising fast.
Support through Friends of Western Sydney helps ensure students can complete their studies and step into the opportunities being created across the region.