Fundraising Events

St Brigid's Fundraising Initiatives

- By Tahlia Thompson & Eliza Molan

On Friday the 20th of October senior students from St Brigid’s actioned an event they had been planning since last term. The purpose of this objective was to raise enough money to build a library for less fortunate children who don’t have access to appropriate education in Thimi, Nepal. We contacted local businesses around Macedon ranges and beyond to see if they would provide us with sponsorship in the form of items/vouchers for our raffle and monetary sponsorship to buys supplies for our many events, We the students faced many challenges including parent approval, finding a date, and navigating how to connect with businesses to sponsor us. We had a total of 10 lessons to complete the plan of action.

Finally, the day had arrived to complete our Car Wash, Bake Sale and Raffle Sale, we were so pumped to begin. 

The senior students group started early and cleaned plenty of teachers' cars before it officially kicked off. 3:30 pm was when the real action began. Members of the community began to arrive. The children had more than enough supplies.  While people’s cars were getting washed everyone would grab a sweet bite from the dynamic donators bake sale and buy some raffle tickets. These initiatives both proved to be equally as successful. We had students walking around promoting our businesses around school grounds to attract. 

We had assistance from our senior teachers with the hoses and guiding the cars to their bays and they were undefeatable even when it got hectic. We also had many parents helping us out, since we were so short in height we had them washing the roofs of the cars. 

The students successfully washed around 30 cars and vacuumed around 15. The baksale also got lots of customers, many of whom were school students. In addition to all this, we had another group called the Bake Sale Boyzz who ran a bake sale outside of Foodworks on Sunday the 15th of October. They raised $622 worth of baked goods. Our teachers also sold raffle tickets there which raised $385. It was a very impressive job from all involved. 

We hope we raised enough money to add to our FoodWorks total of roughly $1000. At the end of the day, we could not have done it without our amazing teachers, parents and our generous sponsors. We plan to count the total and have an update in next month's edition of the Gazette!

Thanks to our sponsors: Coles, Foodworks, The Collective, 3 Little Pigs, The Corner Cafe, Gisborne Cottage Flowers, Pilates Plus Gisborne, Melbourne City Meats, Hydes Dry Cleaning, Subway, The Sweet Shop, Connors Kitchens by Design, Barkers Trailers, L O’Grady Construction, Gisborne Car Wash, Super Cheap Auto Sunbury, Banyan Hair Studios, Mt Gisborne Homes & Gisborne Food & Wine Co.