Get behind the GoodFriday Appeal this Easter

MEMBERS of the Lions Club of Bacchus Marsh, responsible for local collections for the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, are calling on the community to support the cause today.

Lion David Atterbury is the GFA area coordinator and has been volunteering in the role for 12 years to give back to the RCH.

“They saved my son’s life, many, many years ago,” he said.

“So it’s my way to pay back to Australia for everything they’ve done for me since we came here.”

The Lions have been given the job to coordinate appeal fundraising in the Bacchus Marsh area.

“Most of the club’s 41 members help out, in one form or another, during the whole year in what we do for the Royal Children’s Hospital,” Lion Gerry Monaghan said.

In the lead-up to today, Good Friday, 18 April, the Lions have been visiting 30 to 40 businesses regularly around Bacchus Marsh to collect full donation tins, and they have been tin rattling outside shops and shopping centres.

Today, the Lions and their team of community volunteers will be on street corners across the town, collecting donations.

“Everybody available is invited to come to the Bacchus Marsh Fire Station on Main Street after 9am on Good Friday, and we will find them somewhere to shake a can,” Mr Atterbury said.

“Our goal is to beat the $47,000 we raised throughout last year.”

For those that wish to donate but do not have cash, collectors will have QR codes that can be scanned via smart phones.

Contact 0439 324 494 for more information.