At Big Sandwich, we believe in trying to make the world a little better.
Seaweed: The Next (Re)Generation
In 2022, we aimed to raise $50,000 for this cause and we bloody smashed our target. Together with the community and The Intrepid Foundation, Planet Broadcasting raised $130,961 for this cause.
Why raise money for Seaweed and Climate change?
Climate change: there is no ignoring it. Today’s youth are going to live in a world where droughts, heat waves, and hurricanes become more extreme; rising sea levels displacing communities is going to become the norm. Solutions to reverse climate change exist, but we all must take action and embrace them.
That’s why we worked with The Intrepid Foundation to remove additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
As the search for solutions continues, one unlikely hero is making waves: seaweed. Together with The Climate Foundation and the University of Tasmania, The Intrepid Foundation support an innovative marine permaculture initiative aimed at regenerating kelp forests. The project set up Australia’s first seaweed platform – one of the key solutions to climate change featured in 2040 – off Tasmania’s eastern coast. The seaweed platform has become home to floating kelp forests, which continue to grow, attract and feed fish, and provide the same sustainable harvest and ecosystem functions as natural kelp forests.
In 2022, we aimed to raise $50,000 AUD for the seaweed solution to help reverse global warming. Every donation made was matched dollar for dollar by The Intrepid Foundation and together, we smashed our target, raising $130,961.
CARE Australia
In 2018, we partnered with CARE Australia to support women and girls living in extreme poverty across the globe.
Thanks to our community, we raised $47,454,50! Over 3000 listeners from multiple podcasts, backgrounds and from all across the planet joined together to reach this new record donation from us but most importantly, help such a wonderful cause.
Why this cause?
CARE Australia is a leading international aid organisation that works around the globe to save lives and defeat poverty through their five pillars:
1. Gender equality – empowering women and girls
2. Education – caring for a lifetime of learning
3. Health, Water & Sanitation – supporting healthy lives
4. Food Security – aiming to end hunger
5. Emergency aid – caring for families in crisis particularly for Syrian refugees
Mr Sunday Movember
In 2017, Planet Broadcasting launched a charity campaign to support men’s mental health and suicide prevention through the Movember initiative.
The incredible Planet Broadcasting listeners rallied around this cause and raised over $45,000!
… as well as promoted discussion, speaking up about the mental health challenges men face and the impact suicide can have on their families, friends and the wider community.
Why this cause?
The foundation aims to support men’s mental and physical health and raises awareness particularly for young men who are battling issues including depression. The Movember Foundation is the only global charity focused solely on men’s health. Everything the foundation does is to stop men dying too young and help them live happier, healthier and longer lives. Funding more than 1,200 men’s health projects around the world, the Foundation focuses on prostate cancer, testicular cancer and suicide prevention.
UNICEF
In 2016, Planet Broadcasting partnered with UNICEF Australia to raise vital funds to support children affected by the crisis in Syria.
The response was incredibly positive with 3,965 donations made, raising a staggering $39,580.
As a result of Planet Broadcasting, and their fans, UNICEF have been able to support children in Syria and surrounding refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt. This life-saving support is provided in the form of shelter, nutrition, clean water and sanitisation, temporary learning spaces and psychosocial services.
Why this cause?
The humanitarian crisis remains severe. Approximately 16.5 million people are in need of assistance, with ongoing violence contributing to displacement and casualties. The UNHCR projects that around 1 million Syrian refugees may return to the country in the first half of 2025, though conditions within Syria remain precarious.
“Thank you all for believing that all children deserve a chance, especially for those living through the Syria Crisis.”
Matrescence Festival UK & Australia 2024/25
Big Sandwich has been a contributing sponsor to Matrescence Festival Exeter 2024 & Melbourne 2025.
Matrescence Festival empowers the community with deep knowledge, education and cutting-edge research to explore the transition to M/otherhood through pregnancy, birth and beyond.
"Women who transition through preconception, pregnancy and birth, surrogacy or adoption, to the postnatal period and beyond, experience an acceleration in multiple domains true of any developmental push: bio-psychosocial-cultural-spiritual...
...A theory of matrescence provides a destigmatising and agentic lens for mothers of all kinds to identify, explore, cope with, and shape their destinies according to their own individual differences."