IT CERTAINLY isn’t every day a Year 12 student gets the chance to join a board of directors responsible for a multi-million dollar business.
But for Noosa District State High School Year 12 student Chloe Bare, the opportunity to join the board of the Sunshine Coast Community Financial Services Limited (SCCFSL) is exciting.
Chloe said she had a keen interest in business and only last month she was appointed as a junior observer for 2015 on the SCCFSL board, who manage the community bank branches of Bendigo Bank in Cooroy, Marcoola, Tewantin and Pomona.
Through Bendigo Bank’s sponsorship of Australian Business Week (ABW) held at Noosa District State High School each year, Chloe learnt of a program where she could attend each SCCFSL board meeting and learn more about how community banking worked at a boardroom level.
“I’m just so happy to have been given this opportunity,” Chloe said.
“The SCCFSL board is filled with directors who have years of experience and great success in the business world and they’re really lovely people too.
They’re all actively involved in their community and keen to pass on their knowledge.”
Chloe said it was a great “head start” in learning how boards worked as well as learning the important part community bank branches played.
“It’s just amazing how much time and money the branches have invested in our communities already for all our benefit,” Chloe said.
