Bunnings Gladesville BBQ Fundraiser Saturday 16 August 2025.
 

 

The last Gladesville Bunnings BBQ fundraiser that our club held was on Saturday 16 August. The club gives an annual donation to The Riding for the Disabled (RDA) facility at Marsfield and seeing that August is the traditional birthday for horses the club’s Board made the decision that the profits from this BBQ would be the club’s donation to RDA. 

It gives me great pleasure to let you know that we will be donating $2,600 to RDA this year. I would like to thank the wonderful team from our club for their continued support and enthusiasm on the day. More helpers are always welcome on these days.

 

I would like to thank those that were there for the whole day, from the start at 7am to the clean-up at 5pm.  Rob Wilkinson; Mandy Van; Peter Mason and Pam Wood.

 

 Bernie Mason; Brian Bailey; Nick Martorana; Seb Lentini and Paul Cox (Pam's brother).

 

I would particularly like to thank Seb who always turns up to help. Seb was made a ‘Friend of our Rotary Club’ some time ago and really understands what being a ‘Friend of Rotary’ means.

 

I would also like to thank Ron Marton, from RDA, for being at Bunnings at 7am to help me with the setup. Ron had to leave to attend to classes at RDA and then a committee meeting after that but came back later in the day to help. We also had wonderful help from Helen Strasser, from RDA, for the first half of the day.

 

We had surprised help from Natasha, Jamie and Edith Spalding for the second half of the day. Edith is our outbound Rotary Youth Exchange Student for 2026.

You will be hearing more about Edith and her family in the coming weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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