The annual Nameless Jarndunmunha Festival is a gala event held on the first weekend in August. The Festival includes a street parade which is the opening event for the Saturday celebrations, sideshows, novelty games and races, art and craft exhibits and spectacular fireworks displays. Also this year Diesel performed live, with Stone Circle as the opening act.
The whole town becomes involved in the event, by making floats for the parade, putting up a stall or partaking in the King of the Mountain race.
Each year the Festival has a theme. This year it was celebrating 40 years, many of the float entries reflected the theme as a big birthday celebration. The community really gets involved in the street parade event with the event being a focal point for the children of the town.
This year United Community’s Tom Price branch joined the parade with our Junior Saver mascot, SuperBug. This went down a treat with the children who lined up for a balloon and sweet from the big green bug. The motor cross and BMX bikes were also impressive as were the school floats and pony club displays.
Posted on August 30, 2011
Community Western Australia
The staff at United Community’s Mandurah branch recently presented West Aus Crisis Care with $700 worth of blankets, pillows, toiletry packs and some $20 KMart vouchers.
The funds were collected from a 67-strong car cruise from Meadow Springs to Fremantle, with members of the public also coming down to donate.
Congratulations to our staff at Mandurah on their fantastic efforts!
Posted on August 23, 2011
Community Western Australia
Community CPS recently entered into a community partnership with Lifeline Canberra, who are currently celebrating their 40th anniversary.
For 40 years, Lifeline Canberra has been part of a national network offering telephone counselling to the people of Canberra and the surrounding region. Counselling is possible because of the dedication of some 200 trained volunteer telephone counsellors who fill shifts to ensure that the phone will be answered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
As part of our fundraising activities with Lifeline, we became the major sponsor of their recent Willy Wonka Gala Ball held at the Hotel Realm on Saturday 13 August with over 500 guests in attendance. The ball was themed entirely around the movie classic “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”.
A highlight of the night was the guests opening their Community CPS chocolate bars in the hope of finding the ‘Golden Ticket’ with the prize being a $500 hamper. The event was a great success with over $60,000 being raised on the night!
Posted on August 16, 2011
Australian Capital Territory Community
As part of Community CPS’s ongoing support of Australian Red Cross and in particular their corporate blood donor program, during June, July and August we participated in their recent community initiative ‘Credit Union Blood Challenge’.
The objective for this initiative is to obtain a high level of blood donations for Australian Red Cross – as winter proves a challenging time for them due to a higher level of illnesses while the demand for blood donations remain strong.
We were joined in the challenge by Police Credit Union and Credit Union SA, together we have assisted the Australian Red Cross enormously.
Some quick facts:
- 1 in 3 Australians will need blood in their lifetime but only 1 in 30 donates,
- 34% of all donated blood is used for cancer and blood related diseases,
- Every blood donation can save 3 lives.
Call the Red Cross on 13 14 95 to become a donor today!
Posted on August 10, 2011
Community South Australia
Further to our ongoing partnership with Greening Australia, Nursery day is Thursday 8th September at their seed & tree nursery at Pasadena. 10 Community CPS staff will use their annual community leave day to volunteer and assist Greening Australia staff by undertaking a variety of important tasks like seed propagation, watering and sorting. This work is paramount to the ongoing success of the environmental field work which is undertaken by Greening Australia staff.
This volunteering opportunity for staff follows the success of Arbor Day (25 staff and family members volunteered) and is part of our community partnership with Greening Australia we commenced in May 2011.
Posted on August 4, 2011
Community South Australia
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