Community Service & Fundraising

2,800 Community Service hours of volunteer work, plus a total of over $3,380 funds  raised and donations contributed by Kiwanis Bayside e-Club Members and Club Partners in the first year since the Club was organised on 1 July 2007.

Kiwanis Bayside e-Club has reached these milestones in its first 12 months due to "hands-on" fundraising efforts of its Members at 7 Fundraising Events, two successful Grant Submissions for sponsorship of two Kiwanis "Terrific Kids" Programs, and the benevolence of our Honorary Member.

Two Club Board Members and  local Businesses are also commended for their "in-kind" contributions in sponsoring the Awards for two "Terrific Kids" in QLD at Caboolture Primary School .

A pharmaceutical company in Melbourne has also generously donated toiletries and baby items for the Club's 'Young Children Priority One' Kiwanis project to add on to the "New-Born Baby Bundles" organised by up by our Club recently.

We now have three members, keen knitters and crotchetiers who spend many hours making garments for the needy. Some of these garments are donated to specific groups, while others are sold at the club's Garage Sales fundraisers. 

WELL DONE Kiwanis Bayside e-Club Membership and friends. and THANK YOU!

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COMMUNITY SERVICE IN OUR SECOND YEAR

Kiwanis Bayside Internet Club is involved in a wide variety of projects. There is no minimum or maximum time commitment involved. Members choose what suits them best, especially with regards to "hands-on" activities. Members may also participate in activities organised by other Community Service organisations, church groups, charities, etc.

Apart from the Community Service and Fundraising activities listed in other pages on this website, Kiwanis Bayside Internet Club has also sponsored a disabled child to attend the 2008 Variety Christmas Party for Special Children.

The Australia Film Fundraiser held on 26th November 2008 has raised $454 which has been donated to Scope Victoria for disabled children and adults.

Both the BBQ/Boating Fun Events planned for this year with Albert Sailing Club are now an annual event, one for Autistic Children and their Families, and the other one for Asylum Seekers children and their families.

Kiwanis Bayside has also already set aside enough funds for the Heartkids GECHO medical research project and for the Heartkids Families Camp in Victoria.

Here are more examples of our Members' community service contributions, past and present:

• Ballina Lighthouse Day Club - sponsored by the RSL Sub Branch - to bring together isolated, elderly men and women, providing morning tea & lunch

• Honorary Secretarial work with the RSL (Returned Service League)

• PVA - Partners of Veterans - NSW Far North Coast Convenor - we meet monthly to bring support and friendship to partners of veterans from all Wars and Peace Keepers - we have a project where we support women in the bush with pampering parcels to selected bush communities and to ALL women, 9not just partners of veterans)  in that community

• Honorary Secretary of the local Residents Action Committee - a committee that takes forward to local authorities peoples concerns about their local community eg road crossings, hazards

• Collecting and packing boxes for the local farmers appeal to distribute basic staple food items, along with Christmas Cake, Ham, Pudding and Christmas goodies for distribution for local bush communities to families that are finding it "tough".  Christmas gifts, pamper items for the whole family and a large party box go to each distribution centre.

• Caboolture Primary School Reading Resource Centre: assisting with Remedial Reading program

• Veterans Pension Advocacy: assist Veteran to lodge Pension Claim

• Justice of the Peace callouts witness documents/police summons oaths.

• Conducting Seniors Art Group at Retirement Village

• Knitting for Brisbane's needy: knitting group in local library

• Knitting for New Born Babies, Homeless Youth, and the Elderly

• Sorting stamps for/and donation to Kingfisher Recycling Centre at Aspley State High Special School in Brisbane.

• Assistance with social events for the disabled from Scope organisation

• ANZAC Hostel for veterans widows and widowers catering assistance 

• Visiting the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes

• Delivering Bottled water during water crisis in rural South Australia

• Assisting with Emergency Services and local Fire Brigade at Port Augusta

• Cadet-training, and giving Talks at Schools about Road Trauma accidents

• Assistance with the Salvation Army Red Shield Neighbourhood Appeal

• Local Community Welfare Support: a range of assistance to the poor, also providing emotional support and friendship to those in need 

• Assistance with Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation activities

• Selling Raffle tickets  for various Charity organisations' fundraisers

• Planning , organising, assisting with Sausage Sizzles for various community projects

• Youth organisations/clubs' assistance with programs

• Parcel packing duty for local church's welfare and refugee group

• Assistance in Brisbane with Lifeline Bookfest, said to be the biggest second-hand book sale in the world, with two million books,... it is an ideal opportunity for volunteer work and a great crowd of volunteers to work with .... (worth assisting with also interstate. There are Lifeline Op-shops in many towns and villages) 

• Volunteer Teaching with The School of The Air in outback Queensland

• Assisting with mentoring disadvantaged Secondary School students 

• PR/Publicity about Kiwanis and our e-Club locally and on our travels.

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SERVICE & FUNDRAISING  HELD SINCE 1 JULY 2007

Car Booth Sale  on 11 November 2007 at Dingley International Hotel Car Park

BBQ/Boating Fun Day for Autistic Children and their Families on 20 January

Theatre Night and Raffle on 27 February 2008 at Brighton VIC Town Hall

Sausage Sizzle on 10 March 2008 at Bunnings Moorabbin VIC Store

Market Stalls on 27 April 08 at Noble Park RSL & on 19 July '08 at Gippsland 

Catering Event on 30 May - 1 June at North Stirling Port Augusta SA.

2 Garage Sales on 25 May and 29 June 2008 at Noble Park Victoria

Sausage Sizzle on  27 September 2008 at Bunnings Dandenong VIC Store

Vehicles Security Number Plates Project jointly with Police & Bunnings Store

BBQ/Boating Fun Day for Asylum Seekers families on 2 November 2008

Australia Film Cinema Fundraiser on 26th November 2008 at Dendy Brighton

The above-mentioned events netted a total of $3,939.70. On top of this the Club also raised a total of $965 in donations, and $600 in Grants, making it a Grand Total of $ 5,504.70 between 1 July 2007 and 26 November 2008

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