For more than a decade, Cadigal has marked ANZAC Day through a simple yet meaningful tradition: curating and sharing ANZAC biscuit gift boxes with our clients and service partners. Each year, this initiative serves as a small but sincere gesture of remembrance and appreciation, reflecting the values of service, resilience, and community that sit at the heart of ANZAC Day.
Since 2020, Cadigal has been proud to partner with Batehaven Bakehouse in Batemans Bay on the New South Wales South Coast for our annual ANZAC biscuits.
This partnership began after the 2019 – 2020 Black Summer bushfires, which devastated many communities in southern New South Wales. The Kelly family, owners of Batehaven Bakehouse and Ulladulla Bakery Cafe, were among those severely impacted. With major transport routes closed, their town was cut off, supply lines disrupted, and both bakeries forced to close.
Despite losing power and halting operations, the Kellys supported their community by providing lunch packs to the Rural Fire Service during the crisis.
The following year, Cadigal chose to source ANZAC biscuits from Batehaven Bakehouse to support their recovery and help rebuild this valued regional business.
This has since grown into an ongoing partnership that we value greatly. Today, the Kelly family hand delivers more than 5,000 ANZAC biscuits to the Cadigal office each year.
This year, we also took the opportunity to evolve our ANZAC Day gifting through a more sustainable packaging solution.
In place of our usual packaging, we partnered with a local Sydney-based business to create custom boxes that are fully compostable, recyclable, and made from 100% recycled FSC-certified materials. This change reflects our commitment to making considered choices wherever possible with sustainability being front of mind.
Alongside the biscuit boxes, our ANZAC Day gifts this year included poppy pins sourced from a military provider in Canberra. This business is one of Australia’s largest private donors to military and veteran charities and has contributed more than $1 million in direct funding to organisations that support current and former serving members.
We hope this year’s ANZAC biscuit boxes were warmly received by our clients and service partners, and we look forward to continuing this tradition for many years to come.