This years raffle bike will be a current model Honda CBR1000RR Fireblade in HRC colours
Without doubt this is probably the best looking Blade Honda have done and it looks brilliant in real life
Tickets will be $5-00 each and available by calling (02) 9542 5885
What started out looking like a cold and bleak day in Melbourne turned into a magnificent afternoon for football. We were lucky to have 80 volunteers doing a bucket collection around the concourse of the MCG which raised $6400 and a job well done by all those involved
While all the volunteers were slogging it out on the concourse rattling tins SWCCF directors Susan Walter, Ian Juster and Allan McGuirk along with Karen Marshall (Walter) on right with Stephen “Sticks” Kernahan Carlton FC President were attending a very large and elaborate lunch as guests of Hyundai and Carlton FC
Volunteers preparing for the afternoons work
Attending both of these functions among a group of so many well respected ex players and supporters of Carlton FC was a great honour and made us proud to be part of this wonderful experience.
The funds raised by Hyundai Motor Company and Carlton FC
totalled $55,400. This is a fantastic result and we cannot thank both
Hyundai and Carlton enough for their professionalism and generosity, we just wish we could have walked away with a Carlton win.
Karen Marshall with Stephen “Sticks” Kernahan – Carlton FC President
More images from the day are available here.
The 80 guests at the breakfast included representatives from both Sydney Children’s Hospital and the Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne) who were delighted to be seated with Carlton players, Chris Judd, Marc Murphy and Coach Brett Ratten along with GM of Football Operations Andrew McKay. During the breakfast the guests were entertained with a Q&A session with the players and coach.
Certainly the highlight of the breakfast was the announcement by Ian Juster, Southern Region GM for Hyundai Motor Company and a SWCCF board member. Ian announced that SWCCF will be supporting the research portion of a neuro-oncologist at the RCH Melbourne to the amount of $360,000 over three years, this was welcomed by the President of the Children’s Cancer Centre Foundation Jeremy Smith who was also the guest speaker at the breakfast.
A special afternoon visit for these kids at RCH Melbourne
Following the breakfast Carlton Players Ed Curnow, Simon White and Aaron Joseph visited the Oncology ward at the Royal Children’s Hospital to make some Carlton fans very happy and to take their minds off things for a while.
As announced earlier in the year, the Steven Walter Foundation has budgeted and approved an amount of $500,000 to be disbursed for childhood cancer research. So far we have donated $300,000 with still another $200,000 earmarked for disbursement.
More information can be found here – SWF Funds Distribution
