By Margaret Maccoll
Every year a group of Lendlease staff from across the Sunshine Coast take a day off work and spend it helping someone in the community.
Organiser Karina Brice said much planning, coordinating and tens of thousands of dollars in donations were invested in their annual Community Day.
Last month a group of about 30 Lendlease employees descended on Sunshine Butterflies disability service with plans to complete construction of their toilet and shower block.
“We came across Sunshine Butterflies and thought we’d give them a hand,” Karina said.
Sunshine Butterflies had begun work on their ablution block with a state government grant of $35,000 but the project had run out of funds and came to a standstill.
Sunshine Butterflies founder and CEO Leanne Walsh said when Lendlease visited one day to say they would build it for them they were ecstatic.
Karina said the project was one of the biggest Lendlease had undertaken and they had received donations from their suppliers and contractors. Donating to the project were Bunnings, JJ Richards, Argent and Dulux.
Unfortunately when the big day arrived rain prevented work on the ablutions block so the team helped out in other ways.
They plan to return in a few weeks to complete the ablutions block.
