Local business lends a helping hand

Generous windfall for Mount Gambier Cancer Awareness Group

Every year, the Mount Gambier Breast Cancer Awareness Group and wider community eagerly anticipate the group’s major fundraiser – the Pink Party.

For the breast cancer awareness group, it is their major fundraiser, financing the vital support provided by their Helping Hand Bags that hand out a variety of financial and in-kind support to cancer sufferers and for the community it is always a fu night out and a chance to glam up.

Not to put too much pressure on the 2023 event, which is earmarked for Friday, October 27, but it could well generate a record fundraising tally, all thanks to a generous cash injection from local business InfraBuild Steel Centre., which will enable some of the more onerous costs associated with hosting the Pink Party to be covered, meaning the final figure headed for the group’s coffers should be higher.

The event is historically a sell out and with the 2023 event set to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the major fundraiser, this year’s party looks set to be the best yet..

InfraBuild Steel Centre was looking for a local community group or project to support and employee Korinne Bryan put forward the Mount Gambier Breast Cancer Awareness Group and they were anointed as the recipient of the generous $5000 sponsorship.

The windfall was handed over at a morning tea at the Commodore on the Park last week, along with two more donations from DMK Engineering and Krueger Engineering, clients of InfraBuild, who attended the morning tea to find out more about the group’s work and also dug into their pockets to also make a contribution.

Already in the past 12 months, the group has handed out 370 Helping hand Bags with a total value topping the $40,000 mark with fuel vouchers and grocery vouchers just some of the essential components of the bags that look to lighten the load on families just focussing on fighting cancer.

The group’s Jill Gilmore said interest in the group and the willingness of local business, community groups and individuals to contribute to their work is on the rise with a few more fundraising opportunities offered by local businesses coming up over the next few months.