Community auction to fund playspace

An auction of unwanted goods from the community will help fund playground redevelopment at a local primary school, with donations needed to get the auction going.

St Patrick’s Primary School Gordon plans to develop a new, including ‘Village Community Playground’ in time for the 2023 school year, and the Parents & Friends Association is asking the community to chip in, with unwanted items for its ‘Trash to Treasure Auction’.

The auction will be held at The Wallace Pub from 5.30 – 11.30 pm on Saturday 26 November, with tickets for $40 per person including a shared entrée, main meal, and shared dessert.

Entertainment will also be provided by a DJ from Stylus DJ, and drinks will be served at bar prices.

This isn’t the first time the school has undertaken fundraisers to improve its playspace, with the community banding together in the past to raise funds for a cubby house, through the school production’s fundraising efforts in line with the school production, ‘What’s the Crime Mr. Wolf?’

A Round 3 Moorabool Wind Farm community grant has also been awarded to the school, allowing for an expansion to the project with extra landscaping works, the provision of extra cubby houses and a localised sandpit.

Tickets to the Trash to Treasure Auction can be purchased online at www.trybooking.com/CCWJH. Ticket sales and donations close on Monday 14 November.