Latest News from the Friends
Find out about news and upcoming events at the Friends of Kings Park. Highlights include another successful Plant Sale, the upcoming Aboriginal Art Workshop and a volunteer opportunity with the Growing Friends. Not to mention recognising our long-standing members, our Book of the Month, a Climate Watch update and the perfect Christmas present for friends and family!
November Plant Sale
Our final Plant Sale for the year was a wonderful success. Many people ventured out on the warm weekend to stock their gardens with beautiful natives and helped raise over $27,000 for the Friends!
Thank you to our amazing Nursery team who worked so hard to have so many plants ready for sale, and to our volunteers who worked tirelessly on the day to make the plant sale a success! We look forward to next year’s Plant Sales on these dates – mark your diaries:
- Sunday 15th March 2020 9am – 12:30pm
- Sunday 31st May 2020 9am – 12:30pm
- Saturday 12th September 2020 9am – 4pm and Sunday 13th September 2020 9am – 12:30pm
- Sunday 8th November 2020 9am – 12:30pm
The Friends of Kings Park would like to wish all our members a safe and happy holiday season. Our office will be closed from 20th December 2019 to 14th January 2020. We look forward to seeing you again in the New Year!
Aboriginal Art Workshop
An exclusive opportunity for our members to learn all about Aboriginal Art and Culture with Michelle Kickett. Learn more about Michelle here.
The Friends will be hosting a members only Aboriginal Art Workshop on Sunday 1st December, 1-4pm, at Wanju Marr. Learn all about Aboriginal Art and Culture from Michelle Kickett in our beautiful new volunteer facility,
Tickets available only through Trybooking, $50pp
Limited places available
Book your ticket by 25th November
Growing Friends Volunteer Opportunity
The Growing Friends are looking for members who are fit and healthy, willing to work outdoors in all weather, are friendly, self-motivated, have high attention to detail, able to work in small groups and willing to get their hands dirty. Volunteers will be expected to attend at least two sessions a month. Only the Saturday morning/afternoon sessions are available. Interviews will take place on Saturday, 21 December 2019.
For this group, you must be a Friends of Kings Park member. If the position is of interest to you, the first step is to email the Volunteer Coordinator at [email protected] with your name, relevant experience and a brief description of how you could support the Growing Friends. Then the Volunteer Coordinator will send you further information.
Membership Acknowledgments
As we finish 2019 we’d like to acknowledge our long-standing members who have supported the Friends by being a member for 10, 15, 20 and an amazing 25 years!
The work of the Friends can’t be undertaken without the support of our members – you make it all possible.
THANK YOU!
25 years membership
David Purser
Lynette Purser
Peter Davies
Edwina Davies Ward
Staff:
Jenny Sutton
Timothy Yates
Anne Yates
Diana Atkinson
Martin Revell
20 years membership
Margaret Thomas
Ken Frankish
Elizabeth Frankish
Sally Edmonds
Betty Forbes
Barbara Baxendale
Jenny Hart
Win Lucas
Ethel Lucas
Kent Egerton-Warburton
Mary Egerton-Warburton
15 years membership
Jill Hughes
Muriel Bassanelli
Alexander Hew
Rosalind Hew
Vivian Morton
Dianne Morton
Carol Newton-Smith
Caroline Cohen
Valma Nelson
Jan Garthwaite
Leta Liwszyc
Vernon Martin
Oliver Mark
Sophie Mark
Steve Hopper
Bob Kelliher
Michael Ewing
Megan Ewing
Bill Grant
Moira Grant
Nan Broad
Helen Scott
Joan Buchner
Merilyn Burbidge
10 years membership
Hazel Morton
Jennifer Bryant
Margaret Inglis
Rita Tognini
Michael Alpers
Deborah Lehmann
Veronica Newbury
Ronda Beck
Regina Flugge
Miriam Fardon
Staff:
Marcello Campisi
Praful Umaretiya
Trish Esslemont
James Barber
Marty Brotherson
Christina Carey
Peter Buckman
Margaret Buckman
Liz Farquhar
Jennifer Rose
Michael Pennington
Jennifer Byrne
Wendy Peace
David Mynott
Rose Chaney
James Leighton
The Friends would also like to acknowledge the following staff who should have been acknowledged last year. Apologies for the oversight!
25 years
Grady Brand
Eric Bunn
Keran Keys
Peter Nguyen
Luke Sweedman
15 years
Ian Biddle
Neil Pearse
10 years
Ben Miller
Charlotte Vaughan
Membership Database – Request for Quote
The Friends of Kings Park has recently published an open tender for the provision of a customer management database. If you, or someone you know, has a company that would like to put in a quote for this work we would love to hear from you.
We have grown out of our existing database and are looking for a friendly and competent service provider, to help us manage all the aspects of what we do – specifically membership, payments, donations, communications, and recording volunteer hours.
The full documentation is available at Tenderlink and Australian Tenders, or by request from the Friends office ([email protected]).
The closing date for the submission of quotes is Thursday 5 December.