Raises more than $3000 for student mission club
Sara Thompson
Public relations assistant
Avondale College of Higher Education
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia
Lawson Hull and Dayna Petrie take centre stage in the Education Hall during Concert for the Cause.
Credit: Luke Bacon.
The success of a fundraising concert will see Avondale student mission club extend its duty of care to those who volunteer overseas as team leaders.
More than 140 people attended Concert for the Cause, held in the Education Hall on the Lake Macquarie campus this past Saturday (May 18). The auction and concert raised more than $3000.
The money will support students who volunteer as team leaders for One Mission—the student club organises about half a dozen mission trips each year and aims to send 100 students overseas this year. One Mission will keep some of the money in reserve for emergencies and use the rest to help leaders meet their own expenses and teams reach their fundraising targets.
“It’s a relief,” says concert organiser Bek Eyre, who coordinates One Mission’s fundraising. “We tripled the amount we’ve raised in previous years.”
“We want to be able to help our teams as much as we can,” says One Mission leader Joel Slade. “If we have good leaders, we have good trips.”
Anna Beaden and Lawson Hull, both winners of the Young Achiever Prize at the Manifest Creative Arts Festival, joined other Avondale artists and bands, including Jackie Chan and the Mi Goreng Police and The Costigan Sisters, on the concert bill. Items up for auction included the popular auction-a-date, with the highest bid for Bachelor of Education (primary) student Holly Phillips ($700).
“It was great to see the support from college,” says Joel. “That’s why I love One Mission—the passion for it is what keeps everyone going.”
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