Change A Life

Being a good corporate citizen is extremely important to Computershare, and we are committed to collaborating with not-for-profit organisations to tackle issues our people care about. Our employee engagement surveys consistently reveal how much our people care about our company’s community initiatives. 

Change A Life, Computershare’s workplace giving program, was founded in August 2005 with the aim of empowering people facing economic challenges around the world. 

Since then, we have raised over AU$14 million in partnership with our employees – of which half goes towards global projects, while the other half goes towards our local community partners in locations close to our offices. This money has been used to fund sustainable agriculture and reforestation, food security, mobile eye care clinics, disaster relief, and a range of programs for children who have needed education or welfare support. 

Every month, over 1,600 employees donate via automatic payroll deductions, and all payroll donations are matched dollar for dollar by Computershare. We empower our people by giving them a vote on the charities we engage with, and encourage them to use their annual volunteering day at the local partners that they selected.

Over eight years, employee donations, matched by Computershare, have raised AU$2 million for the school and helped provide education for over 800 students each year. These funds helped WYI make a range of improvements to the school, including building a new boarding centre and a new IT College for fee-paying students, upgrading classrooms and other facilities, purchasing two new buses, supporting the wages of extra teachers, extending the school program into Years 11 and 12, and supporting improvements to the quality of education provided.

Our eight-year partnership with World Youth International reached an important milestone in 2026 with the completion of the IT College at the WYI School in Nepal.

The IT College plans to begin taking enrolments from 2027, offering a four-year Bachelor of IT pathway with practical, job-ready learning in areas including networks, systems, software development and artificial intelligence. The first intake is planned for up to 40 students, with capacity increasing over time to support up to 160 students. Fees will be reinvested into the wider WYI School, helping fund its operations and supporting its long-term goal of becoming self-sustainable.

Following the 2026 floods in Nepal, we were relieved to receive confirmation that all teachers and students at the WYI School are safe and accounted for. The school’s elevated location, together with improvements supported by Computershare, provided a degree of protection, and the school itself only sustained minor damage to the Computershare-funded access road.

A number of Computershare employees from around the world have also supported our fundraising effort by completing a series of treks in Nepal in 2018, 2019 and 2023, and a virtual trek in 2022.

The WYI School is now recognised as one of the region’s top schools and is more attractive to fee-paying students, which helps fund its day-to-day operations, enabling the school to become self-sustainable in the future.

Since 2017, Change A Life has partnered with a range of not-for-profit organisations near our offices to provide practical support to local communities. Our employees have a say in the organisations we support, many of which have had a focus on youths and addressing food insecurity. 

Some of our people choose to go the extra mile by utilising their annual volunteering day and volunteering for these organisations, either individually or with their colleagues. We have recently participated in various food drives, from collection to packing and distribution, academic tutoring, and bicycle builds for foster children.