On Tuesday 13th July, members of Big Bangs Australia ran a basketball clinic for 34 kids at St Vinnie’s Holiday Camp.
The St Vincent de Paul Society’s 40,000 members and volunteers work hard to assist people in need and combat social injustice across Australia. Internationally, the Society operates in 130 countries and has over 950,000 members.  A small part of their work has been school holiday camps for disadvantaged and at-risk kids; you just know we couldn’t resist helping them out!
Our group of 10 volunteers ran the kids through warmups, team-building …

On the weekend of 10th and 11th July, Big Bangs Australia lent their support, expertise and sponsorship to the inaugural SABI 2010 tournament.
Teams from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and hometown Canberra came together to celebrate the talents of Sudanese-Australian basketball!
The weekend included an All-Star Game, Dunk Contest and 3-pt shootout.
The games were all exciting and hotly contested; plenty of dunks, plenty of highlights and of course a ton of support from all of Canberra’s basketball community.
After upsetting the firm favorites Melbourne to book a spot in the grand final, the Canberra Blue …

Big Bangs Australia is very proud to be sponsoring Kalie Kamara to participate in the Canberra Institute of Technology team currently playing at the Eastern University Games.
Kalie will be writing a story about his experience at the tournament very soon.
We wish him the bets of luck, and note that he is joined by fellow Big Bangs player Felix Chan!

Can you believe it’s already been a year since the Big Bangs officially launched?  At the time who could have imagined how quickly we would expand, how many kids we would serve, how many emergency packs, basketballs, t-shirts, meals, shoes, uniforms, textbooks and school supplies we would go through…
On Monday 21 June, Tongue & Groove, our perennial sponsors, helped us celebrate by throwing a cocktail bash for some 70 of our friends and supporters.
It was a wonderful night, and we would like to make a special shout-out to some very …

Last Thursday evening, the Big Bangs – Australia team took part in the St Vincent De Paul Society’s CEO Sleepout, joining 684 Business & Community Leaders sleeping rough in capital cities across Australia, in a bid to experience first hand what it is like to be homeless, along the way raising $2.6 million, which will go directly towards the ongoing provision of Vinnies’ homeless services across the country.
It was cold, windy, altogether miserable, and unfortunately a reality for far too many Australians.
Why did we support?  The article below from our CEO should explain…
He has …