Warwick Golf Day
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players turned out for a 4 ball Ambrose at the
Warwick Golf Club and to raise funds for BUSHkids.
Domino’s sponsored the prize for a hole-in-one on
the 13th (a year’s supply of pizza) and provided free
pizza to all the players on the day! The BUSHkids
Warwick team ran a golf buggy bar selling drinks to
thirsty players; Apex Life Member Peter Hardwick
ran a fundraising sausage sizzle at the halfway house.
Further fundraising took the form of a sporting
memorabilia auction, including a Bart Cummings
signed photograph, Don Bradman signed bat, and
Laura Geitz signed netball outfit, and much more.
A successful multi-draw raffle with amazing prizes
donated from the community and a major raffle for a
Kangaroos jersey signed by the full 2011 team, which
was kindly donated by Mark and Hilary Wilde of
Brisbane, raised an amazing $1,180.
Thank you to the Warwick Golf Club and Condamine
Sports Club teams for helping our day run smoothly.
Community Service Award –Warwick team
winners of the 2012 Heritage BankWarwick
Business Excellence Award
Nominated by the local community in recognition of
the services BUSHkids provides, our Warwick team
was announced Winner of the Community Service
Award at the Warwick Business Excellence Awards.
The award recognises the significant contribution
of community organisations to the community in
relation to projects that have positively impacted the
community and generated long term benefits.
Bec and Emily attended the dinner on 1 September
and accepted the award on behalf of the team, the
prize including $300 worth of radio advertising on
radio station 4WK which was put to good use for the
Warwick Golf Day promotions. Congratulations on a
great achievement for our Warwick team!
Commonwealth Bank contribution to
sustainability – solar power use
As part of the Commonwealth Bank Centenary
Celebrations the bank asked its staff to submit ideas
for contributing to local communities for improving
sustainability. The bank received an overwhelming
response, many ideas based on offering long-term
support to rural community centres.
BUSHkids was selected as the Commonwealth Bank’s
staff’s recipient for their solar power funding and
solar panels were installed in our five centres across
Queensland. The solar panels will significantly
reduce our energy bills and allow us to focus on
providing needed equipment and resources.
Thank you to the Commonwealth Bank and its staff
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DONORAPPEALS
Over the year we have also conducted two donor
appeals: one pre-Christmas and one pre-tax time.
The appeal letters are printed by our supporters at
PurePrint at no cost to BUSHkids and have proved
to be very effective, with a 30% donor return across
both appeals.
Thank you sincerely to all who have donated to
BUSHkids and to the PurePrint team.
REBRANDINGAND MEDIA
The new BUSHkids logo was launched at our 75th
AGM Celebrations on 6 December 2011 and was
received with great enthusiasm by all who attended
and applauded by those who have since seen it.
The new BUSHkids car fleet was also updated with
the new ‘wordmark’ decals which has certainly been
effective, catching the eye of Thiess Community and
Stakeholder Relations Manager Kyle Roggenkamp.
Kyle contacted our Dalby centre in early March,
looking to support a local organisation over the life
of the QCLNG project in the Dalby area.
Pre-Christmas 2011 letters mailed out
1265
Number of donations received
340
Pre-Tax 2012 letters mailed out
1374
Number of donations received
474
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