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Last July was Animal Welfare month for our CSR. In Brisbane, we had presentations from the RSPCA (Australian peak organisation established to promote animal welfare), and last week, we invited two presenters and Mr Clooney and Lucy (the dogs) to come and perform in front of our Gold Coast students. The staff from AWLQ (Animal […]

Our June event for corporate social responsibility (BROWNS Elevate) was to raise money for the Smith Family. The Smith Family is a children’s charity that helps disadvantaged children, and in particular help them through their education when in difficult times. At BROWNS, we wanted to organise a fun event to raise money for the Smith […]

We all know about the importance of recycling what we can, reusing where possible and reducing our consumption of plastic bottles. In the BROWNS Elevate calendar, April is the International Recycling Awareness Month and at BROWNS, we have started some projects and initiatives to have best practice in terms of doing our part. Firstly, we […]

A Day at Surfer’s Paradise Australians spend much of their free time outside, enjoying the sun, the beach and sports, and this is part and parcel of life at an Australian high school too. On Wednesday, our Gold Coast under-18 classes did the second stage of their surf-lifesaving activities (click here to see stage 1) […]

In March, as part of our work with the local community, BROWNS invited the Surf Lifesaving Foundation to come and deliver a series of presentations to both our ELICOS campuses on the importance of water safety to everyone living in Queensland. The surf lifesavers, Kristy and Scott, gave plenty of good advice to both our […]