Community generosity helps raise for a reason

By DOROTHY STARR The Grenfell Hospital Auxiliary would like to extend a heartful thank you to the wonderful community for their generous and ongoing support throughout this year. Lamington drives, street stalls, raffles. Thanks to your support we sold an incredible 840 dozen lamingtons, and through various fundraising activities including our popular wood raffles raised much need funds that have already been put to great use. A special thank you goes to Simon for generously donating firewood for our raffles which raised $3000, an amazing contribution. Our street stalls raised over $3500. We also received a $300 donation from the 1966 Class reunion. This year the auxiliary has purchased vital equipment and comforts for our hospital patients, staff and the broader community, spending over $26,000. Every dollar raised has gone directly back into improving our health care services and facilities in Grenfell. Your support has helped provide a vein finder machine to assist our nurses in patient care, two air-care chairs for the MPS patients, two high profile cushions to improve patients comfort, a new sofa lounge for palliative care room, weight shelving to enhance the hospital gym facilities, emergency bags to support patients who are transported to other hospitals for urgent care. Two automatic leg movers for rehabilitation and mobility support, hairdressing salon accessories adding to the comfort of our residents of the multipurpose facility. Two task chairs, a bariatric chair for dietitian use and a urn for community health groups. Purchases also included a clothes dryer for nurses’ residence. We also purchase treats for the MPS residents at Christmas and Easter to spread the joy during these times. This is a powerful example of raising for a reason – and your generosity directly benefits patients, nurses, families, and the broader Grenfell community. What’s next? We are now preparing for our much-loved Monster Christmas Raffle. Last year saw an amazing 12 fabulous prizes donated. This year we hope to have a bigger one! We have already received some generous donations. If you are an individual or local business who would like to donate or sponsor a prize, please contact Mandy on 0427315987 or Dorothy on 0427741535. Tickets for the Monster Raffle will be for purchase at the Hospital and Community Health Centre or from members of our auxiliary. There will be some businesses that will have tickets also for purchase. Tickets are $5 each. The raffle will be drawn at The Christmas Carnival in December. To all members of the Grenfell Hospital Auxiliary thank you for continuing to show up, pitch in and care so deeply. Together we are making a real difference. The state Hospital Auxiliary conference will be held in Orange from Tuesday, 21 October until Thursday, 23 October and we have five members attending.