Goods in store for holiday draw

THE school community at St Mary MacKillop Bannockburn is getting ready for their annual Easter raffle run by the parents and friends committee.

With prize hampers packed by committee members ranging up to $300, school principal Anthony Drill said it’s always a bit of fun everyone involved.

“This’ll be a fun go for Easter-time and gathering some goodies for the parents to buy raffle tickets leading into our last assembly for the term,” he said.

“We’ve got chocolates of course, but also things like Easter-themed activity books, school supplies and some baskets from the hampers and crockery type items.

“This is probably one of our major fundraisers for the year and it’s always a very successful first-term fundraiser for us at a low cost.

“It’s lovely that the community gets behind this, and we often get a lot of people from outside the school community.”

Up to 10 prizes are on offer valued from $25 to $300, and Mr Drill said the raffle generally raises about $3000 each year.

Entries will close on Wednesday, 5 May with the winning tickets to be drawn during the school’s assembly the following Thursday.

Mr Drill said this year’s fundraiser will go towards securing new playground equipment.

“The cost will be about $15,000 to $20,000 so this will make a bit of a dint into that amongst the other fundraising we’ll be doing,” he said.

“We have a different goal for every year. Through previous fundraisers we’ve bought lots of Lego for our Lego club.

“There’s also been some indoor play equipment and right now we’re waiting on line marking for the playground which we got for about $11,000.”

Tickets range from $2 for one ticket to $100 for 50 tickets and can be bought at bit.ly/3Kb5OUQ.