Sydney Airport is deeply committed to fostering strong and positive relationships with our local community through purposeful partnerships, sponsorships, engagement and meaningful initiatives. Our community investment strategy focuses on supporting schools and education, promoting health and wellbeing through sports, and addressing key environmental concerns, ensuring a lasting positive impact on those we serve.

Bayside Women's Shelter

Sydney Airport proudly supports Bayside Women’s Shelter through ongoing donations and community initiatives, including helping to fund the launch of the Jacaranda Women’s Hub in Pagewood. This welcoming space provides women and families who have experienced adversity with access to practical programs and trauma-informed support services, helping build a stronger, safer community.

Cook Community Awards

Sydney Airport proudly sponsors the Cook Community Awards, celebrating individuals and groups making a positive difference in the local area. These awards highlight our shared values of leadership, sustainability and community spirit.

Cronulla Life Saving Club

Sydney Airport’s three-year sponsorship of Cronulla Surf Life Saving Club strengthens community safety and celebrates coastal culture. Our support helps fund lifesaving programs and the iconic Shark Island Swim, ensuring volunteers have the resources to keep beaches safe for locals and visitors alike

Gujaga Foundation

Sydney Airport works closely with the Gujaga Foundation to bring the culture and language of the Dharawal People of Coastal Sydney, the Traditional Custodians, into our terminals and precinct. Since our partnership began in 2018, Gujaga has also provided ongoing guidance on our Reconciliation Action Plan, delivered workshops and training for our people and have played a key part in major celebrations and events across the airport.

Raise Foundation

Since 2020, Sydney Airport has partnered with the Raise Foundation, and our staff have volunteered as mentors to high school students in our local community. Young people who are mentored through this program have lower levels of depression, higher sense of wellbeing, know where to go for support and are more likely to find employment.

Rotary

Sydney Airport and Rotary have forged a strong relationship through various fundraising initiatives at the airport since the 1960s. Botany, Marrickville, Randwick and Mosman Rotary clubs collect donations from 11 collection bins across our terminals to directly fund local and international community organisations and causes.

Seabin

Sydney Airport has partnered with environmental technology leader Seabin™ to tackle plastic pollution in waterways surrounding the airport. This five-year initiative uses advanced technology to capture and analyse litter, providing data-driven insights to reduce pollution and improve waterway health. The project reflects our commitment to sustainability and collaboration with councils and community groups for cleaner oceans and healthier communities.

Taronga Habitat Positive

We are proud to be the first partner in Taronga’s Habitat Positive initiative, a 10-year program restoring over 3,000 hectares of Box Gum Woodlands, critical habitat for koalas and other threatened species. This partnership supports biodiversity and contributes to our Net Zero emissions target by 2030, delivering tangible benefits for wildlife and future generations.

University of NSW

The SYD100 scholarship, announced as part of the airport’s centenary celebrations in 2019, sees one full scholarship awarded every year for the next one hundred years at the University of NSW (UNSW). It covers tuition and accommodation for a UNSW student to complete a Bachelor of Aviation Management or a double degree of Bachelor of Aviation Management and Commerce. The scholarship focuses on bringing more diversity to the next generation of aviation leaders. It provides under-represented groups in the industry with access to education, including people with diverse cultural backgrounds, women and First Nations students.

Wildflower Gardens for Good

Our partnership with Wildflower - Gardens for Good began in 2022, when a team from Wildflower came in to develop and landscape the T1 international terminal forecourt. Wildflower is a First Nations led not-for-profit organisation that specialises in premium sustainable horticulture, landscape and ecology services while providing meaningful work for young people facing barriers to employment.

The Wildflower team are now the ongoing caretakers of our T1 forecourt gardens, are undertaking a long-term bush regeneration project at the Airport Wetlands and take a leading role in teaching local primary students about On Country land management and the uses of native plants as part of our popular school tours.

Working with Councils

We work with local councils on delivering multi-million-dollar initiatives and projects that benefit local residents living in communities near the airport. In 2018, Bayside Council and Sydney Airport established the Community and Environment Projects Reserve Fund, which will fund a variety of community and environmentally focused projects over the next 10 years.

An major upgrade to Botany Aquatic Centre is the first major project to benefit from the partnership. The integrated family and water play area, with an aviation theme, will include a water slide and a splash pad, for all ages and abilities.

In 2024, the Inner West Council and Sydney Airport established a Community, Environmental and Sustainability Projects Fund, which will support projects and initiatives that benefit inner west local residents and also improve environmental or sustainability outcomes. Sydney Airport has also partnered with Inner West Council to deliver the Community Water Safety program, giving eligible children the chance to learn swimming as a vital life skill, completely free.