Points for Purpose - use your loyalty points to make a direct difference to the causes you care about.

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POINTS FOR PURPOSE

Points for Purpose is a movement that makes it possible for people to use their loyalty points to make a direct difference to the lives of people in dire need.

We are currently focused on homelessness. We are asking people just like you to use their Qantas, Virgin and Flybuys points to buy specific products that our charity partners gift to very needy people.

Please activate your points today. Follow the simple instructions below to help us provide more warm nights sleep to the men, women and children who are sleeping rough on our streets.

Points donated

6,549,387

Bags purchased

331

Homeless helped

331

Warm night’s sleep

4,000+

Make a difference to homeless people in:

Australia

Activate Your Existing Points

	Select your loyalty program from the options listed: Activate my Qantas points Activate my Velocity points [Buy a gift card and we’ll buy a bag.] Activate my Flybuys points – [Buy a gift card and we’ll buy a bag.]
	Use your points to buy the item recommended
	Ship to address below
	Please text us so we know it’s coming: Mob: 0429 604 564

(*include your own mobile number as reference)
Points for Purpose
12 Wattle Road
Jannali, 2226 NSW Australia

No Points But want to contribute?

	Donate a Backpack Bed click here ; OR Make a donation to Backpack Bed click here
	Make your purchase
	Your bag/s or donation will be automatically delivered to a homeless agency in need
	Please text us so we know it’s coming: Mob: 0429 604 564

New Zealand

Visit our NZ site

Points for Purpose are partnered with Fly Buys in New Zealand.

You can use your Fly Buys NZ points to make a direct difference to people experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, child poverty, children in care, start of life challenges, and animal abuse.

To learn more about making a direct difference to the causes you care about in New Zealand, head to our NZ site or go directly to Flybuys.co.nz to use your points.

Australia

Activate Your Existing Points

	Select your loyalty program from the options listed: Activate my Qantas points Activate my Velocity points [Buy a gift card and we’ll buy a bag.] Activate my Flybuys points – [Buy a gift card and we’ll buy a bag.]
	Use your points to buy the item recommended
	Ship to address below
	Please text us so we know it’s coming: Mob: 0429 604 564

(*include your own mobile number as reference)
Points for Purpose
12 Wattle Road
Jannali, 2226 NSW Australia

No Points But want to contribute?

	Donate a Backpack Bed click here ; OR Make a donation to Backpack Bed click here
	Make your purchase
	Your bag/s or donation will be automatically delivered to a homeless agency in need
	Please text us so we know it’s coming: Mob: 0429 604 564

New Zealand

Visit our NZ Site

Points for Purpose are partnered with Fly Buys in New Zealand.

You can use your Fly Buys NZ points to make a direct difference to people experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, child poverty, children in care, start of life challenges, and animal abuse.

To learn more about making a direct difference to the causes you care about in New Zealand, head to our NZ site or go directly to Flybuys.co.nz to use your points.

About Us

Points for Purpose is all about encouraging people to spend their loyalty points on specific items that will make a direct difference to people in serious need.

We’re asking people just like you to spend their loyalty points (Qantas, Virgin and Flybuys) on products that will be life-changers to people who are at their lowest ebb. Currently we’re helping homeless people by taking donated sleeping bags and working with certified charities to get them to the people most in need.

We have big hearts and a big appetite to make the world a better place for everybody.

When every community takes care of their own – and makes sure that every homeless person has a warm night’s sleep, we can sleep easy.

If you’re seeing rough sleepers (people sleeping on the streets) in your community and would like our support, please contact us (details at bottom of website).

The way we see it, when people give like this, everybody sleeps a little better.

Dave Drury is the founder of this cause. Following more than 20 years working on the digital side of the advertising industry for organisations all around the world, Dave has dedicated himself to being a social change ambassador. On his extensive world travels he’s seen poverty and desperation first-hand, but he has also seen just how people don’t need much at all to be happy.

Dave is on a mission to increase happiness, kindness and equality in the world, and Points for Purpose is doing just that.

The team at Points for Purpose is fully committed to getting Australians and New Zealanders to donate their loyalty points so that we may buy things that the underprivileged so desperately need.

In the media

SBS World News aired the Points for Purpose story – October, 2016.

Tragically, the homeless man in this video was stabbed to death on the streets of Sydney in January, 2017.

Video footage owned by SBS Australia. Transcript available here.

How do you sleep?

On March 19, 2017, we launched a song and music video called ‘How Do You Sleep?’

In February 2017, one of the earliest recipients of a sleeping bag was stabbed to death in Sydney. Upon hearing this tragic tale, singer-songwriter Ryan Edwards from New Zealand wrote the song “How do you sleep?”

He performs this song with his 15 year old daughter Lily-wai, and together they capture the sense of foreboding that accompanies every single night for a homeless person.

Points for Purpose would like to thank:

Ryan Edwards for his incredible gift of being able to shine a light on the small things that most of us take for granted. His words capture the very essence of what homelessness is.

The incredibly talented 15 year old Lily-Wai, from Waikanae Beach, for sharing her beautiful and often haunting vocals.

Elise McDonald and Gab Herrera from Elise Creative in Wellington for their time, expertise and passion in creating this video.

Internationally acclaimed composer and arranger Stephen Gallagher for lending his immense talent in the instrumentation of “How do you sleep?”.

Asa Bennett for producing and mixing “How do you sleep?” from his studio in North London.

Generous partners and charities involved in this cause:

Can your business make a direct difference?

With businesses gifting a percentage of their corporate points to us, we can make a significant difference to people sleeping rough on our streets. To find out more and discuss the options, please email Dave Drury or phone +61 429 604 564

Signup to follow our progress

Together we can make a positive, immediate difference to Australia’s estimated 105,000 and New Zealand’s estimated 38,000 homeless people. Join our growing community and follow the journey on social. You don’t need our permission to tell the world.

click here to email us / Mob: +61 429 604 564