Fundraising Bearing Fruit

IT was a big weekend for the Where There’s A Will Foundation, while an event was taking place at the Scone Race Club the fruits of recent fundraising efforts where to also to be seen with 100 people being trained mental health first aid and 36 local teachers continuing with the graduate certificate in positive education.

Polly Yuille, Where There’s A Will Foundation representative said it was great to see funding working in the community.

“It is wonderful to have so much community support in fundraising for the Foundation and to see that while we are holding those events at the same time there are people in our community directly benefiting from that fundraising with training and education being rolled out,” said Ms Yuille.

“This weekend was a perfect example of that and it was especially exciting to see so many men from the community participating in the mental health first aid training, because it is a really significant step for the community,” she said.

“The Foundation and I am sure the donors love to see fundraising dollars being used so well in the community for the benefit of our young people and the whole community,” Polly Yuille said.

At the end of the Scone race meeting, Everest silks auctioned on eBay fetched $6,600 and were purchased by a family in Muswellbrook.

Meanwhile the last group of 100 local people completed two day training in mental health first aid.

The training had been conducted in Muswellbrook, Denman, Murrurundi and finally in Scone.

Local police are now set to undergo the training also.

In Muswellbrook 36 teachers from throughout the Upper Hunter were back in the classroom working towards a graduate certificate in positive education through the University of Melbourne.

As part of the qualification all teachers need to develop a curriculum for positive education and initial reports are there are plenty of fresh ideas for how local schools will better teach students resilience and core life skills in the Upper Hunter.