The Smith Family Around the Bay 2020 team of Jim Orchard, Chris Wang, Reg Smith, Trevor Nink, Dorothy Gilmour, Kerry Kornhauser, Ari Talantis are enlisting your support for this very important fundraiser this year.
With the cancellation of the 2020 Bicycle Network Around the Bay Bike Ride, the Around the Bay committee of Rotary Melbourne believes that it is extremely important that Rotary redirects its 2020 project into maintaining its fundraising for the Learning for Life program.
In this pandemic year, children from disadvantaged schools have suffered even more with their parents’ loss of income whilst they have had to home-school, very often without access to electronic devices available to their peers.
Rotary Melbourne is now committed to raise funds of at least $25,000 for the The Smith Family Learning for Life Program this year.
It was agreed that Rotary will run a multi-faceted project of Bike raffle, a silent auction and our own riders’ challenge for member sponsorship.
Flyers, (designed by Sarah Macleod-Burke and Kerry Kornhauser) will be sent to our Rotary volunteers’ email list , placed on our website, Instagram and Facebook (Ari Talantis) and included in Bulletin and D9800 Networker (Dorothy Gilmour).
A revised Donation button will be included with the link for Around the Bay on our website (Ari Talantis).
We have created three events and need to raise $25,000!
The Raffle of the $2,000 bike voucher has commenced through TryBooking with a few $20 tickets already sold. We need you and your family and colleagues to be made aware of this special Raffle please. The date of the draw will now be Wednesday, 30 September.
For the Silent Auction in COVID-19 times, we are seeking significant donations of items for bidding. Again this is where we need your support. Have you or someone you know, an item that will create terrific, frenetic bidding as this Silent Auction is created online. Our PP Kevin Sheehan has agreed to try his skills at Zoom auctions!
The Silent Auction will commence via Bulletin on Monday 14 September (Dorothy Gilmour) with results declared on Wednesday, 30 September.
The design of the Special Riders’ Challenge event for November will be provided when available via Bulletin to bring Members up to speed! Watch this Space!
