Our Community
Community engagement and support for Australian values are key components of our corporate culture. For many years now, Avida has been working closely with a number of different organisations on both a local and national level and has been actively supporting communities.
All programs are built on three complementary pillars – community involvement, employee engagement and corporate giving – determined by local cultural, economic and social factors.
Our Corporate Sponsorship
Royal Flying Doctors
Proudly supporting since 2004
Money raised by the company is donated to the RFDS to assist in the worthwhile effort of attending to the ill and infirm in those remote areas of the country where otherwise, medical assistance is very limited.
We chose the RFDS because of their affiliation with the countryside, as motorhomers have and appreciate. We wander into remote areas and heaven forbid, occasionally we may need to call on them, it’s nice to know they are there to assist if required.
Since 1928 the Service has grown into one of the most respected organisations in the world. Covering an area equivalent in size to Western Europe, it operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
With the improved condition of roads and facilities in the outback, the Service is also becoming more involved with the ever increasing number of tourists visiting Australia’s remote locations.
Today John Flynn’s dream of a “Mantle of Safety” continues to be there for us all.
Visit The Flying Doctors Website for more information or to donate
Rotary International
Proudly supporting since 2005
Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbours, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. For more than 110 years, Rotary’s people of action have used their passion, energy, and intelligence to take action on sustainable projects. From literacy and peace to water and health, we are always working to better our world, and we stay committed to the end.
Visit Rotary International Website for more information or to donate
Rotary – Lower Blue Mountains
Proudly supporting since 2008
Rotary is a global network of 1.2 million neighbours, friends, leaders, and problem-solvers who see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change – across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves.
Rotary members believe that we have a shared responsibility to take action on our world’s most persistent issues. Our 35,000+ clubs work together to:
- Promote peace
- Fight disease
- Provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
- Save mothers and children
- Support education
- Grow local economies
- Supporting the environment
Visit Rotary Lower Blue Mountains Website for more information or to donate
MonSTaR Foundation
The MonSTaR Foundation organises a variety of events to raise money for The STaR Association and Motor Neurone Disease (through MQ Health Neurology Clinic and MND Research Institute of Australia).
We believe that together we can make a difference by giving back to our community.
Visit MonSTaR Foundation website for more information or to donate
Mama Lana’s & Turn the Tables
Proudly supporting since 2021
Mama Lana’s Community Foundation (MLCF) is a wholly not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping our often forgotten homeless and underprivileged community in the greater Penrith region, to advance their wellbeing and prospects for future independence. The foundation offers hot meals six nights a week, supplies food and toiletry packs, as well as providing clothing, sleeping bags, swags and blankets to keep the homeless and underprivileged warm during cold Penrith nights.
Visit Mama Lana’s and Turn the Tables website for more information or to donate.
Mater Dei
Proudly supporting since 2022
Mater Dei works together with families and carers to provide innovative and contemporary education and therapy services to children, students and young adults with an Intellectual Disability or developmental delay.
Visit Mater Dei for more information or to donate
Motor Neurone Disease Research Australia
MND Research Australia (MNDRA) supports high-quality MND research to discover the causes, improve care and find treatments and ultimately a cure for MND.
Motor neurone disease (MND) is a term used to describe a group of diseases that affect nerve cells called “motor neurones”.
Motor neurones normally carry messages from the brain to the muscles via the spinal cord. The messages allow people to make voluntary movements like walking, swallowing, talking and breathing. With MND, however, the nerves become damaged and start to die so muscles gradually get weaker and waste away. Currently, there is no cure for MND and it is life shortening.
Visit Motor Neurone Disease Australia for more information or to donate
Some other charities we have supported
- Nepean Medical Research Foundation – Nepean Philanthropy
- Challenge supporting kids with cancer
- City Tattersalls
- Emu Plains Public School
- TruBlue/NRMA
- General Electrical
- Kenthurst Preschool
- RM Williams Outback
- Way 2 Go
Our Commitment to the Environment
Motorhomers, caravanners and Avida are very conscious of the environment; after all, the enjoyment of motorhoming and caravanning is to take in our vast country and the wondrous sights and amazing and varied vistas that can be found from the rivers to the desert, from the mountains to the sea.
There can be nothing better than to set up your RV next to a tranquil pond or outback clearing, a quiet caravan park perhaps offering all the facilities or one of the many legal free camps provided in out of the way places.
Motorhomers and caravanners heed the message and responsibly live in harmony with the environment, cleaning up after themselves, disposing of their waste responsibly, being aware of their surrounds and respecting the message that they should leave only footprints.
Avida has adopted an environmentally friendly approach in everything they do and have been certified by the Caravan and Camping Industry Association for building in strong environmental practices and equipment in their state of the art manufacturing facility located on the outskirts of Sydney, at Emu Plains.
Avida - Australian owned | Australian built
Avida, a great Australian story, has been manufacturing RVs since 1965 in Western Sydney NSW. Avida remains the number one manufacturer of motorhomes in Australia with over 60 years of experience building RV products like motorhomes, campervans and caravans.
At a time when much of Australia’s manufacturing is fast disappearing overseas to the detriment of local jobs, Avida remains in the original hands of the founder as a true Australian family company employing and supporting hundreds of Australians and their families at the 4 hectare (10 acre) site.
You can be very confident you’ve made the right decision when you purchase an Avida.
Avida – Australian owned, Australian built.
Our Commitment to Local Employment
Do you want to work for an Australian family owned company who strives to be continually innovative and to learn state of the art manufacturing practices?
Avida may have the job for you!- Metalwork
- Carpentry
- Plumbing
- Cabinet making
- Upholstery
- 12v Wiring
- Fitting floor coverings
- + much, much more!
