Charity Lunch 2011

Parkerville Children and Youth Care staged their seventh annual charity lunch on Friday, 4 November, at the Grand Ballroom Burswood. The event was the largest in terms of patronage and monies raised. 730 people attended the event with key speaker General Peter Cosgrove and support act, comedian Jeff Green. The supporters of Parkerville responded to the call to support the launch of the Youth Village at the Parkerville campus, by gifting one million dollars.

Many of Perth's philanthropists attended the function and gave generously; there were several donations of a $100,000 each and a strong sense of community support towards the work of the Organisation.

The theme of the day was firstly to thank the supporters of the event, 70% of patrons are regular attendees and over the past 5 years raised enough money to build Australia's first Child Advocacy Centre, which opened in Armadale in March 2011.

The second purpose was to launch the theme of the new Youth Village at the 18 acre campus at Parkerville. This work based education programme will also incorporate accommodation, independent living skills, mental health intervention and mentoring support to change the lives of young people aged 14-17 years who have experienced significant disadvantage.

“The whole day was a huge success, partly because of the money we raised from the generosity of the patrons, but also because of the understanding people had in what we were trying to achieve” said CEO Basil Hanna, “We made some lasting friendships today and that all helps the kids”.

Click here to have a look at more of our images form the 2011 Charity Lunch.