A FUNDRAISING dinner hosted by the Orange Uniting Church Men’s Fellowship and Forest Reefs Women’s Fellowship raised almost $8000 for Camp Quality last month.
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Men’s fellowship president Mike Logan said $7845 was raised at the second annual dinner they have held as part of the annual Tractor Trek, which was also set up to raise money for the cancer charity.
“Each year we enter a team in the Tractor Trek, which is run on behalf of Camp Quality,” Mr Logan said.
He said the dinner, held on August 1, was part of their fundraising effort and took place at the Wesley Uniting Church in Orange.
The money was handed over to Camp Quality Central West volunteer co-ordinator Graeme Eggleston on Monday.
“At the dinner we had a charity auction and that was all donated by businesses or by individual people from the church,” Mr Logan said.
“It was absolutely chock-a-block, we couldn’t fit another person.”
Mr Eggleston said more than $900,000 had been raised for Camp Quality from the Tractor Treks since it started four years ago.
He said the money would help 63 families and 155 children in the Central West.
“We raise enough money so that we can guarantee that every [eligible] family in the Central West is not found wanting,” he said.
“A lot of the families have to go down for two to three months [to Sydney] at a time [for cancer treatment].”
The Tractor Trek will take place on September 18, 19 and 20 when 32 tractors will drive from Bathurst to Oberon to Lithgow and back covering about 330 kilometres over three days.
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