Date Published: 21/04/2010
West Coast Institute of Training students studying in the Diploma of Community Welfare as part of their course requirement were to ask an organisation in which may be willing to allow a group of four students take on the role of carrying out a project. The project needed to be one in which the organisation with an identified need but was lacked the time or staff to conduct the activity. Four students, Tai Glasson (25), Stacey Hill (18), Vittoria Caiulo (18) and Kaitlyn Traynor (18) decided on YMCA HQ because we had just held the SBA/Dew Series Quarter Final and place getters were required to cover their own travel costs to Sydney for the Grand Final event on Saturday 10th April 2010. The students decided to host 2 fundraising events at YMCA HQ to help their peers make the trip over to Sydney.
The first of the two events held at YMCA HQ was a skateboarding competition called a “Game of Skate”, when asked by Kaitlyn’s team, GMTA Skateboards were happy to be on board as our event sponsors providing us an amazing supply of skateboarding related products to use as prizes. Brumby’s were also approached and didn’t hesitate to provide the event with over sixty half-price bread rolls for the sausage sizzle, which, along with the music pumping and over sixty skateboarders competing made for a fun night.
In tracking down bands willing to play at “Fund Fest”, the second of the two events, there was an influx of young bands putting their names forward and more than willing to support the event, from these four bands were chosen to play, including; Missing Arcadia, Wild Sense, Ruthless and Within Ruins. All four bands put on an amazing show contributing to the funds already raised. A total of six-hundred-and-eleven dollars and ten cents was made and will be distributed among the young Skateboarding Australia Mountain Dew finalists. And to quote Kaitlyn “because they deserve an opportunity to skate for Western Australia at a national level, no matter how far they have to travel”
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