A WELL-KNOWN charity has put the call out to the community to help raise funds to meet rising demands on services.
beyondblue is well-known in the community for helping people with depression and anxiety and is calling on community members to help raise funds in what beyondblue CEO Georgie Harman said is a first for the charity.
“For the first time since beyondblue was established in 2000, we’re asking the community to help us to continue to meet rising demand for our 24/7 Support Service by holding a beyondblue Bash to raise funds,” Ms Harman said.
Ms Harman said the charity was encouraging people to come up with fun and original ideas to raise funds.
“The simplest are often the most successful. You could put a loose change jar in the office, make a gold coin donation to wear casual blue clothes to school or work, ask your friends to knit blue squares to be made into a rug to be raffled at a community event, mark the boundary lines or goal squares in blue to raise money at your sports club’s beyondblue Bash,” she said.
“You could even paint your front gate blue and keep a donation tin on the kitchen bench if visitors wish to donate. The possibilities are endless, but the results of your fund-raising could be life saving.”
Mr Harman said contact with the support service increased by 38 per cent last year with each call costing the charity an average of $48.
“We want to keep this free counselling service running. One call could save a life. One beyondblue Bash could save many,” Ms Harman said.
“On behalf of all the families in Australia who have been affected by depression and anxiety, or who have been bereaved by the suicide of a loved one, I offer my heartfelt thanks for the generous fund-raising efforts of all our supporters across the country.”
To become a beyondblue Fundraising Legend go to www.beyondbluebash.org.au to register. Here you can see what other people are doing and get inspired.
