By Oliver Winn
The Upper Yarra SES’s exciting trivia night will make a return this year to raise crucial funds to keep the unit operating.
With around 160 attendees at the last trivia night, SES unit controller Hannah Brunton said this year’s event will promise a good time.
“Last trivia night, everyone was really just there for a good time, it was really high energy and a really fun place to be,” Ms Brunton said.
“We have sold 10 tables so far, so this time we have planned to allow for more, so we still have a few tables available.”
The event will be at the Warburton Golf Club on 17 May, from 7pm to 11pm for $20 a ticket, or $200 for a table of 10 people.
Those interested in buying tickets can purchase them here: tinyurl.com/UpperYarraSESTriviaNight
Local businesses have contributed some great prizes this year, with an overnight stay at Balgownie Estate, signed AFL merchandise and plenty of shop vouchers among the prize pool.
“One of the biggest draw cards of our trivia night is that outside of the trivia we also have silent auction items. Our silent auction items at our last trivia night raised over $10,000 in those sales,” Ms Brunton said.
The category of trivia for this year is a “top secret”, Ms Brunton said, to ensure that all groups have an equal chance of winning the top prize.
“If people want to know that, they’ll have to come along for a night of fun to find out.”
But, she said the style of trivia will be fairly traditional and that there will be minigames between the rounds.
All proceeds from the event will go directly to the Upper Yarra SES to help raise money for new equipment and other operational costs.
With the opening of the Warburton Mountain Bike Destination trail this year expected to increase the volume of call-outs to the area, the Upper Yarra SES is raising funds for new equipment that specialises in these sort of rescues.
To raise money for the unit, the Upper Yarra SES aims to host two major fundraising events per year.
“Our goal is to have two major fundraisers per year, so one every six months, but it really depends entirely on what our operational requirements are,” Ms Brunton said.
“So because the same group of volunteers are organising these fundraising events and they’re also attending requests for assistance from the public, if we’re going through a very busy period of time, we’ll have to forego a fundraising event. So we do our best to go every six months.”
“Later this year we are also planning a barn dance that will be held in October, we’ll start selling tickets for that and organising that once the trivia night is done and dusted,” Ms Brunton said.
