Warwick Friendly Society is pleased to announce this year’s Christmas Giving Programme, which encourages members to choose how the Society’s yearly Christmas Donation is distributed.
The Warwick Friendly Society was founded in 1908 to support members of the Warwick district.
It is fitting therefore that the charities our staff have nominated for the Society Christmas Giving Programme have a focus on the community as a whole in these trying times.
The Warwick Community Van, Riding for the Disabled Australia, and Southern Downs Ark are the three charities that Warwick Friendly Society will highlight during the shopping period up to Christmas.
Riding for the Disabled Australia {RDAA} is a voluntary, non-profit organization which provides opportunities for people with a disability to enjoy safe, healthy, therapeutic, horse-related activities in Australia.
RDA Warwick conducts riding for primary school aged children with special needs at the Warwick Showground over the middle two terms of the school year. Qualified coaches and adult volunteers are aided each week by students from Scots and Assumption Colleges. New volunteers are warmly welcomed and don’t necessarily have to be horse orientated. A desire to help children is all that is needed.
Each year coaches and volunteers see very tangible results of the RDA riding programme. Each week volunteers see children’s confidence and self-esteem build as skills are achieved and improved upon. But best of all, the children have fun.
It’s easy to see that the volunteers of the Warwick Community Van love what they do. When you start talking to them you find out why.
The Warwick Community Van is a community kitchen designed as a grassroots charity to serve the needs of our local community. Run entirely on volunteers from the Warwick Seventh-day Adventist church and local community, the team provides amazing services with no questions asked.
The community van team follows the practices of the foundation statement; “Feeding people with love” and this is exactly what happens each week during our van’s service.
The Warwick Community Van offers all of the following, free to their clients:
-homemade meals
-hygiene items such as shampoo and ladies’ products
-laundry powder in individual sizes
-clothing and shoes
-blankets and sleeping bags
-occasional donations of food items and household essentials
100 percent of what is donated to the Community Van is used to provide essential items and meet the needs of Warwick locals.
We welcome any questions about our service.
You can find us on our Facebook page or call Catherine on 0409 894 908.
How it will work
- With each transaction in-store (no minimum spends and can be from any department), members will receive a token (must be a current member)
- Choose which charity you would like to support from the on-counter display
- Pop your token in the appropriate box
Donation
$3000 will be distributed between the three charities according to the proportion of tokens in the boxes. These funds will be distributed during January 2021.
Conditions
*For every transaction made in-store, each member will receive one promotional token (limit of 1 token per transaction). Place the token in the entry box on the counter, selecting the individual charity that you wish to support. Warwick Friendly Society will make a charitable donation to each of the three charities at the end of the promotion, based on the proportion of tokens contributed to each charity. The total donation will be AUD$3,000. Christmas Giving Programme Promotion runs from 6/12/21–20/12/21.
How it will work:
- With each transaction in-store (no minimum spends and can be from any in-store department), members will receive a token (must be a current member)
- Choose which charity you would like to support from the on-counter display
- Pop your token in the appropriate box.
Donation:
- $3000 will be distributed between the three charities according to the proportion of tokens in the boxes. These funds will be distributed during January 2022.
Conditions:
*For every transaction made in-store, each member will receive one promotional token (limit of 1 token per transaction). Place the token in the entry box on the counter, selecting the individual charity that you wish to support. Warwick Friendly Society will make a charitable donation to each of the three charities at the end of the promotion, based on the proportion of tokens contributed to each charity. The total donation will be AUD$3,000.
Christmas Giving Programme Promotion runs from 6/12/21–20/12/21.