TWO Moree-based community groups received a generous donation this week after the employees at a local business spent months putting on events, morning teas and searching behind couches to raise money for charity.
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Bruce Clyne from the Men’s Shed and the Gwydir Mobile Children’s Service’s Wendy Baldwin were on hand at Rhodes Kildea Lawyers on Tuesday to accept coffee, cake and their $500 cheque.
The Moree Men’s Shed has more than 20 paid members and a core group of five workers. Their most recent initiative was to craft toys, boxes, a table and a clock from timber to raise money for supporting local women with cancer.
They are selling raffle tickets for the items every Tuesday and Thursday from 8am through noon on Balo Street, near the intersection with Heber Street and will draw the winners at the Christmas Street Festival.
The Mobile Children’s Service is a Moree based organisation which is committed to providing educational opportunities to children in remote and isolated areas.
They travel 200km to provide preschool for children aged three to five years and playgroup for children aged up to five years in places like Bellata, Garah, Boomi, Croppa Creek, Mallawa, Bullarah and Pallamallawa – “all the farm kids,” said director Wendy Baldwin.
“With this money we’ll get them all mud boots for when it rains,” she said.
