By JESSE GRAHAM
AN ANNUAL fund-raiser for Very Special Kids will return to Healesville RSL this weekend, with residents and visitors asked to give generously to help families of sick children.
The RSL’s family fun day for the annual Piggy Bank Appeal will be held on Saturday 12 September, at the venue’s car park on the Maroondah Highway.
The event will feature favourites from previous years, including market stalls, an animal farm, hot rods and a raffle, featuring over $2000 worth of prizes.
Healesville RSL assistant manager, Suzanne Serra, said this year’s event would also feature a duck race, with 101 plastic ducks to be dropped off the bridge adjacent to the RSL.
Cash prizes will be handed out for the first, second and last ducks to cross the finish line along the Grace Burn.
Ms Serra said a jumping castle and blow-up slide would also be drawcards for families on the day, while adults could go in the draw to win wine, a portable barbecue, and family passes for the zoo or Puffing Billy, among other prizes in the raffle.
All of the profits from the event will go to the Very Special Kids Piggy Bank Appeal, and the RSL has set a goal of $15,000 – though Ms Serra said the team were just hoping to improve on last year’s fund-raising of $10,000.
“Every year, it’s gotten bigger and better,” Ms Serra said.
“And it’s such a good cause, supporting families of children with life-threatening illnesses.”
Very Special Kids provides support for families in Victoria who have a child with a life-threatening condition – from diagnosis through to recovery or, in some cases, bereavement.
The family fun day will be held from 9am-3pm on Saturday 12 September.
For more information, call Healesville RSL on 5962 5017.
