Community and partnerships

We support the education, health, and emergency services industries through a range of programs and development opportunities

Community and partnerships

  • In FY24 we invested almost $1.1 million to support the delivery of services and programs to help our communities thrive.

    SUPPORTING NURSING AND TEACHING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS COMPLETE THEIR STUDIES Through partnerships with Western Sydney University and Australian Catholic University, our bank provides scholarships and bursaries to help students complete their degree and start their career.

    SUPPORTING INDUSTRY RESEARCH In a partnership with Australian Catholic University, we part funded the Nursing Resilience Research project1, with the aim of helping to identify ways to improve retention, support and course completion for nursing students.

    ENGAGING WITH INDUSTRY We engaged with approximately 15,000 people face to face in 2024 from across the education, health, and emergency services sectors at conferences, orientations, graduations, and worksite events across Australia, providing information about the products and services we provide for their industries and communities we serve. 

    CONTINUING EDUCATION For ten years, in partnership with the Public Education Foundation2 we have been supporting a School Principal attend the Harvard Graduate School of Education for a one-week intensive leadership program.

    Partnering with our community 

    Bell Shakespeare3 For the past eight years, alongside our partner Bell Shakespeare, each year we have provided 30 teachers from across Australia with a year-long mentorship, the National Teacher Mentorship. 

    Stewart House4 For more than 40 years, we’ve partnered with Stewart House. Each year, they offer 1,600 public school children impacted by health or family issues 12 days of respite care, programs, excursions, and medical treatment and screening at no cost to their parents or carers.. 

    Essentially You5 Our Essentially You program, exclusively available for our customers, is complimentary and offered to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. 

    Cufa our almost 10-year partnership with Cufa6, an international development agency to fund the Children’s Financial Literary (CFL) program in Cambodia. Since 2016, the social impact of our contribution to the program has included: 44,267 children have received financial literacy training; 24,269 children have started saving; 1,029 teachers trained through 111 workshops

    Our contribution towards reconciliation 

    We are committed to reconciliation and aim to be an active participant in Australia’s reconciliation journey. 

    In June 2022, we launched our Reconciliation Action Plan7 (RAP), our first formal step on our reconciliation journey, and our opportunity to develop deeper, longer-lasting relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

    Read the Banking for Good report

    Read our Reconciliation Action Plan

    Read the Cufa 9-year report

    1. Teachers Mutual Bank Scholarship – Australian Catholic University Scholarships acu.smapply.io/prog/teachers_mutual_bank_scholarship 

    2. Principal and Leadership Scholarships – Public Education Foundation

    3. National Teacher Mentorship | Bell Shakespeare

    4. Stewart House Supporters - Thank you for your generosity and assistance

    5. Essentially You | Teachers Mutual Bank

    6. Our Reconciliation Action Plan

    7. The Cufa 9-year report