We have the BEST community around us and it shows! Last week Burdekin and a number of our Manly fans were invited to attend the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles URM community round game day at 4 Pines Park in Brookvale against the North Queensland. What an incredibly exciting opportunity and our young people were thrilled!
And then there is Andre from Lion Window Cleaning who, with his colleague, provided complimentary window cleaning at one of our properties because he heard about our work and wanted to help!
Furthermore, we secured grants from the Lendlease Future Steps program and the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. Read more about all of these wonderful examples of community spirit below.
Lendlease Future Steps program grant
We wanted to say a huge thank you to Lendlease and Bendigo bank for this incredible opportunity that will allow us to make significant improvements to the Burdekin Out-of-Home Care project. Please read what our CEO Justene had to say about it:
We are very excited to share the good news that we have been successful in securing a grant from Lendlease and Bendigo Bank with their Future Steps program improvements to the Burdekin Out-of-Home Care project. This grant means a lot to us. We are planning to utilise this grant for improvements to and an increase in bed capacity to our staff care home in Stanmore. We will be creating a self-contained Caretakers unit which allows us to convert the current staff bedroom into an additional client bedroom. This will improve the current staff office and accommodation as well as gives us more space to home an additional young person. The current office for staff also doubles as a bedroom. The improvements mean the house will qualify as a Semi-independent living (SIL) home once the works have been completed. We would like to say a huge THANK YOU to Lend Lease and the Future Steps program.
Justene Gordon, CEO
Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and URM – United Resource Management
We celebrated the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles and our community at the recent URM community round game day with other local service providers. The event was a celebration of URM’s twenty six year sponsorship and partnership with the club and a really great opportunity for families and children to join the celebrations of belonging to a community.
For one home game per season, the Sea Eagles honour their community partners (WhatAbility, Youth Up Front) and us), recognising our work and the people. Our young people get free tickets to see the game, and some get to go onto the ground to watch the team warm up, and also form the guard of honour as the players run out for the match. This year the community partners were awarded a framed Community Round jersey (the players wore this special jersey just for this game – it’s the jersey the team wore in the 1950’s).
At half time there was a competition to push a giant football down the length of the field, and young people participated.
As always, we thank our partners for their continued support and opportunities like this for our young people – it was amazing!
Andre from Lion Window Cleaning
Recently, we needed the upstairs windows at one of our houses cleaned. We received three quotes including one from Andre. He then came back a couple of days later to say he would do it for free as he had seen what Burdekin does and so he was not going to charge us! So kind and much appreciated. Thank you so much. If you need your windows cleaned, please give Andre a shout at Lion Window Cleaning.
We have also been successful in securing a multi-year grant for the Learning Space from the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation and are ever so grateful and excited about this!
We can’t thank all of our supporters, small and large, enough.
