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The Dress Up Place Expansion
A bare wall at The Dress Up Place was successfully turned into a large storage and display area with the help of the Rotary Club of Highton who purchased, then donated a large amount of brackets, shelving etc and provided the manpower to put it all together. Bunnings Waurn Ponds also donated a $50 goods voucher towards the purchasing of the materials. |
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Headspace Outdoor Building Project
The GP Association of Geelong required assistance to improve the area between their ‘Clockwork’ Post Office site and the Telegraph Office site. Twelve GTEC students undertook the building of a practical deck between the two buildings. Construction took two weeks and formed part of their trade certificate. |
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Kids Plus Hot Cross Bun Week
The Kids Plus Foundation helps babies and children with cerebral palsy reach their potential. To raise funds they sold hot cross buns to businesses in time for Easter at $10.00 per dozen so that the businesses could collect a donation of $2.00 per bun.
BacLinks sent out calls for support across our network and website, as well as featuring the drive at the 730 Breakfast. |
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Karingal ‘Run With the Law’
BacLinks put out a call for business and community employees to assist the Barwon Special Olympics team compete in the IX National Special Olympic Games.
Involvement included running with the Karingal Kroozers team in the Geelong leg of the Torch Relay, volunteering assistance on the day and donations to the athletes.
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2010 Girls’ Big Day Out
BacLinks in collaboration with GRVEC, The Gordon and the LLEN held the fourth Girls’ Big Day Out at The Gordon East Geelong Campus.
This year 103 Year-9 girls representing 13 schools participated in a range of trade and manufacturing based activities alongside women who currently work in non-traditional roles.
Major event sponsors were the Alcoa Foundation, Geelong Manufacturing Council, G-Force Apprentice Centre and GTEC and in-kind support was provided by Austeng, Barefoot Media, Maybelline and Village Cinemas.
Mentors were drawn from Alcoa, G-Force and GTEC. |
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Grovedale Community Centre Boardroom Chair Donation
The Grovedale Community Centre offered a set of 12 Boardroom Chairs to any interested party. These were taken up for use by Courthouse Youth Arts. |
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Alcoa-Leopold Wildlife Shelter
Ten Alcoa employee volunteers came to the rescue of the Leopold Wildlife Shelter by utilising their extensive range of skills to build a new bird aviary, paint the Animal Hospital and tile the washing area.
The Leopold Wildlife Shelter is run entirely by trained volunteers who are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The shelter rescues around 1500 orphaned or injured animals annually and rehabilitates them before releasing them back into the wild. This leaves them little time and limited resources to improve or update the shelter’s facilities. |
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Powercor Office Items Donation
Powercor offered up two no-longer-needed 4-drawer filing cabinets for community use. Rainbow Riders was the beneficiary of their generous contribution. |
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2010 Winter Workplace Big Day Out
Over 130 program members from Karingal, St Laurence Community Services and Encompass Community Services Inc attended the event to enjoy for some fun, laughter and physical activity along with employee volunteers from 11 local businesses.
Powercor generously presented the event and local agency MatchWorks also offered support by providing additional sponsorship.
This unique event, which is supported by various businesses, sporting associations and community agencies, provides an opportunity for people who would otherwise not cross paths to have a great time together in a safe supported environment.
Sports and Recreation students from The Gordon enthusiastically provided a range of activities along with representatives of various sporting associations. Students from Oberon High School provided the Getting-to-know-you activity under the auspice of KABLE, Karingal’s Adventure Based Program.
BacLinks appreciated the support of a number of businesses including The Rotary Club of Highton, Tasman Meats, Costa Produce, Black Dog Promotions, Village Cinemas Geelong and the City of Greater Geelong for providing the venue. Their contributions helped ensure the day went successfully.
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Wightons Lawyers Answering Machine Donation
BacLinks put out a call on behalf of the Surf Coast & Inland Plains Landcare Network for a much needed answering machine. Wightons Lawyers generously donated one to meet this request. |
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Harwood Andrews Furniture Donation
Office furniture, including sofas, chairs, drawers, cabinets, shelving and tables, that were being held in storage were donated for the use of interested community organisations. The Kids Plus Foundation, Leopold Wildlife, the Marshall Cricket Club and St Augustine’s were all able to receive items from this generous contribution. |
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Alcoa – Geelong Food Relief Centre Support
The Geelong Food Relief Centre relies heavily on volunteer support to run its two mini marts, each of which daily provide affordable, quality food to struggling homeless, unemployed, aged and disabled people and families.
Alcoa Point Henry smelter provided 8 employee volunteers to help out at the North Geelong mart, serving customers, pricing goods, stocking shelves and spring cleaning. |
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Karingal PC Monitor Donation
After a cleanup, 2 monitors and 50 mouse mats were handed on to PC For Kids who recycle the parts into workable computers for the use of disadvantaged children and families. |
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