Our partnership with DV Safe Phone provides an ongoing way for Retail First and our communities to support people experiencing domestic violence.

Mobile phone donation points are available year-round at Centre Management offices across all Retail First shopping centres. Community members can donate their unused mobile phones, which are then repurposed to help people experiencing domestic violence stay safe and connected.

As a Mater Foundation Patron, donor, and advocate, YFG Shopping Centres has been a supporter to Mater Foundation for close to 30 years, directing gifts to Catherine’s House (Queensland's first integrated perinatal mental health centre); the Neonatal Critical Care Unit; the Sister Angela Mary Fund; and Mater Little Miracles. Most recently, YFG has pledged a significant gift to the Mater Little Miracles Research Centre to honour Sister Angela Mary Doyle.

In addition to philanthropic giving, YFG Shopping Centres engages in several Mater Foundation community events such as the Brisbane to Gold Coast ride for cancer, International Women’s Day Fun Run and the Noosa Triathlon. In 2021, the YFG Shopping Centres team was instrumental in creating the Mater and Taiwan Adventist Hospital ‘Sister Hospitals’ partnership, to benefit both hospitals through learning and collaboration.

YFG Shopping Centres was honoured to receive the 2024 Betty McGrath Award for Philanthropy, recognising the organisation’s significant contribution over many years.

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Retail First proudly supports OzHarvest through our annual food drive, helping people experiencing hardship across Queensland.

From October to December each year, donation points are set up across our shopping centres, encouraging customers to contribute pantry essentials. With the support of All Purpose Transport, donations are collected and delivered to local charities, helping provide essential food supplies to those in need across our communities.

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As a philanthropic donor to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Foundation for over 30 years, YFG Shopping Centres has contributed to significant research and patient care advances, including premature baby research, the Herston Infectious Diseases Institute and the Precision Prostate Cancer Program.

YFG’s decades of support were recognised with the Foundation’s inaugural Lifetime Fellow Award. The award celebrates an extraordinary philanthropic partnership which has gone above and beyond financial support, strengthening health care across the Queensland community and ultimately improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Australians.

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For more than a decade, Retail First has proudly partnered with Share the Dignity, supporting their work to help women and girls experiencing homelessness, domestic violence and hardship.

Each March and August, donation bins are placed across all Retail First shopping centres, giving our communities the opportunity to donate essential period products and help restore dignity to those in need.