General March / June 2010

GALA CHARITY CONCERT featuring the Victoria Police Show Band and Pipe Band– This year's Gala Charity Concert is being held on Friday 26th March, 2010 at 7.30pm at the Whitehorse Centre for Performing Arts. It is $23.50 per head - with the net proceeds being split again between the Box Hill Central Rotary Club & the Eastern Emergency Relief Network. Tickets are now available at the Whitehorse Centre for Performing Arts Booking Office. Telephone: 03 9262 6555

KNOX ART SHOW – It is being held from Thursday 15th to Sunday 18th April, 2010 at the Knox Civic Centre, 511 Burwood Highway , Wantirna. It is being run by the Bayswater Rotary Club with the EERN being the major beneficiary. For further information ring John Bold on 03 9873 0023

WHITEHORSE FARMERS MARKET – It is held on 2nd Sunday of each month, in the Whitehorse Council grounds, Nunawading. It is conducted by Rotary Clubs in the City of Whitehorse . EERN is one of the beneficiaries of this market fundraiser. Please support the above events (and any of our other valuable supporters) when you are able.

SUPPORTERS - Our supporters are many and varied and each plays a vital role in enabling EERN to provide a unique service to assist the needy of the community. They include:

*Our many volunteers from all sorts of backgrounds who give of their time and energy to ensure the smooth running of the operation.

*Donors of quality furniture and household goods , again for a variety of reasons, but very much appreciated by the end recipients in necessitous circumstances.

* Financial contributors , whether they be individuals or groups / business organisations or charitable trusts, and whether the donation be in cash or kind

Recent major funds contributors include:

* Blackburn Motor Body Works

* City of Whitehorse

* City of Maroondah

* Freemasons Victoria

* Gainsborough Hardware Industries

* Helen MacPherson Smith Trust

* Lord May or' s Charitable Foundation

* Percy Baxter Charitable Trust (Perpetual Philanthropic Services)

* The Jack Brockhoff Foundation

* Uniting Church in Australia

* Whitehorse Benevolent Society Inc.

* Whitehorse Community Chest

* Whitehorse Farmers Market (Rotary Clubs of Whitehorse )

* William Henry Hutchinson Trust (State Trustees)

*Sydney Myer Fund

*William Angliss ( Victoria ) Charitable Fund

*Jack & Robert Smorgon Families Foundation

Others who provided valuable tangible support to EERN included:

* Box Hill TAFE – produced a professional EERN promotional video

* Crossway Baptist Church – provided a quantity of Christmas hampers for distribution to clients.

* Dawson Australia – provided professional pest control services

* Fisher Dowell Pty.Ltd. – provided professional services associated with the construction of the new mezzanine floor

* Huntingtower School (students)- collected and donated a large quantity of food items to assist in making up emergency food parcels ( a number of local churches and other groups similarly had regular collections of non-perishable food for EERN)

* Philip Webb Real Estate – again provided a significant number of quality Christmas hampers

* Local Service Clubs are also valuable supporters:

* Balwyn Rotary Club – a major contributor to the construction of a warehouse mezzanine floor and shelving to assist with our expanding storage needs, also warehouse electrical works.

* Box Hill Central & Balwyn Rotary Clubs – assist our furniture collecting activity by providing a roster of members to make pick-ups 3 Saturdays a month.

* Box Hill Lions Ladies Auxiliary – donated cash / gift vouchers for distribution.

* Blackburn North & Nunawading Lions Clubs – provide funding to purchase goods for a large number of special Christmas hampers. Other Lions Clubs in City of Whitehorse donated a quantity of Christmas cakes for inclusion in hampers.

We very much appreciate the valuable contribution of all supporters – EERN could not do provide the service it does without them.