In the 2018/19 financial year, volunteers ran eight different raffles throughout the year. Some of the raffles were more successful than others. The most successful raffle was the Christmas raffle which raised almost $3,000. Overall the raffles raised $7,594, most of which is profit due to the kind donations of local business.

We thank the following businesses for their support during the year

Bunnings – Munno Para West
Hilltop Flowers – One Tree Hill
Reading Cinemas - Elizabeth
Red Lion Hotel – Elizabeth North
Schnithouse – Elizabeth Shopping Centre
Petbarn – Elizabeth

People’s Choice Community Lottery

The Lyell McEwin Volunteers once again took part in the People’s Choice Community Lottery. We were issued 500 books and with the help of the raffle team and a point of sales location at the Elizabeth Shopping Centre, we sold two thirds of the tickets issued to the organisation.

For the first time in many years the Lyell McEwin Volunteers did not sell a winning ticket.

Entertainment Books

Unfortunately the sales of the Entertainment Book have dropped off slightly with only 97 books sold, with one of the books being the Cairns edition.

Wrapping

The volunteers once again had a booth at the Elizabeth Shopping Centre during 2018/19. Throughout the year we held three different wrapping fundraisers for Father’s Day, Christmas and Mother’s Day.

Dedicated volunteers raised a total of $8,160 with the breakup being

Mother’s day $854

Father’s Day $458

Christmas $6,848

The amount raised this year was just shy of the 2017/18 total of $ $ 8,237 . A huge thankyou to the Elizabeth Shopping Centre for providing the opportunity to undertake this important fundraiser by donating the space, wrapping paper, ribbon, sticky tape and scissors.

Equally, a huge thank you to the 71 volunteers who spent many hours wrapping lovely presents for the community.

BBQ’s

During the 2018/19 financial year the BBQ team went from strength to strength with regular BBQ’s at Bunnings Munno Para West and Drakes Salisbury North.

The Bunnings BBQ’s are now active almost every week with a variety of week days and the occasional weekend. The BBQ’s at Drakes Salisbury North take place every couple of weeks on a Saturday. As well as these regular BBQ’s we get the occasional BBQ at the Lyell McEwin Hospital, Modbury Hospital and in the local community.This has led to the BBQ team making a profit of $10,442, an increase of 148% on 2017/18.

This is due to the hard work of the BBQ team and in particular to BBQ Coordinators Garrie Hill and Richard Van Vliet. An enormous thankyou to all of the team for creating a program that will go from strength to strength over the ensuing years. Your hard work and commitment is much appreciated