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has just passed its first five months as a registered charity and I am happy to say, after an initial settling in period, we feel we are well entrenched in the community and are achieving what we set out to do. That is:
- to support our friends in whatever way we can,
- to support our most generous volunteers who give so much of their time,
- to support our sponsors who provide so much and without you, we would not be able to assist our friends
Registering the charity, the paperwork, contacting sponsors, setting up the website, opening bank accounts, training our new volunteers and making sure that our friends are taken care of, all takes time and at last we believe we are well on top of those necessities.
I am very happy with the progress of our Murwillumbah Outreach.
Our “Thursday BBQ Lunches”, started on 8th May 2008, are proving very popular and we regularly support 50 or more friends and most days many of the youth, play touch-footie while the girls prepare the food most generously donated by a number of suppliers in Murwillumbah.
I am very happy with the progress of our Murwillumbah Outreach.
Our “Thursday BBQ Lunches”, started on 8th May 2008, are proving very popular and we regularly support 50 or more friends and most days many of the youth, play touch-footie while the girls prepare the food most generously donated by a number of suppliers in Murwillumbah.
On the 6th July 2008, we began our regular “Murwillumbah Budd Park Sunday Brekkie” which is proving very popular with our friends, and an average of 15 – 20 people join us on the banks of the river each week for eggs, sausages, fruit, juice, tea, coffee and often other "goodies" provided by our vollies. Then, on some occasions it's a chat and sometime music supplied by the boys and girls!!
We started our 1st Coolangatta/Tweed Outreach with a “Sunday Brekkie” on the 12th October 2008. This is exciting in that we are steadily achieving our goals, which are to support our friends and the marginalised in the Tweed district. The brekkie menu is the same as that we supply the Murwillumbah “brekkie” crew.
Our Volunteer Base is now growing steadily and at present, we have 21 local volunteers supporting us in Murwillumbah as well as Tweed Heads and if anyone would like to join this most wonderful experience and volunteer with us, please visit our website, where you can contact us www.youhaveafriend.org.au
The “Tweed Gulu Walk” was run and organised by us and supports the displaced children in Uganda who are regularly abducted by the rebels.
We cannot thank our sponsors enough. You have been so generous to date and without you, there would be no "You Have A Friend" and in your own ways, you are doing so very much for our friends out there and I make sure they are aware who you are.
We started our 1st Coolangatta/Tweed Outreach with a “Sunday Brekkie” on the 12th October 2008. This is exciting in that we are steadily achieving our goals, which are to support our friends and the marginalised in the Tweed district. The brekkie menu is the same as that we supply the Murwillumbah “brekkie” crew.
Our Volunteer Base is now growing steadily and at present, we have 21 local volunteers supporting us in Murwillumbah as well as Tweed Heads and if anyone would like to join this most wonderful experience and volunteer with us, please visit our website, where you can contact us www.youhaveafriend.org.au
The “Tweed Gulu Walk” was run and organised by us and supports the displaced children in Uganda who are regularly abducted by the rebels.
We cannot thank our sponsors enough. You have been so generous to date and without you, there would be no "You Have A Friend" and in your own ways, you are doing so very much for our friends out there and I make sure they are aware who you are.
God Bless and thank you all so much.
From John and the "You Have A Friend" crew.
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