Book Sale 2024
Fundraising Report 2025-26
Director: Robyn Hain
The Rotary year for Fundraising has definitely been a busy one with two major events taking place, our Trivia Night in August 2025 held at the Cherrybrook Community Centre and the GIANT Book Sale 2026 in March 2026 held at the Uniting Church, Cherrybrook.
Our BBQs are always a Club favourite too with four (4) Bunnings BBQs and one (1) for Mirvac taking place which were fundraising events and one (1) for the Bunnings Spring Launch, raising money for Motor Neurone Disease, which was a Community event, six (6) in total, where we have the process down to a fine art and members enjoying the comradeship that comes with these BBQs.
Trivia Night 2025 – 16th August 2025
Committee Members: Robyn Hain, Andrew Little, Carol Russell, Karen Lambert, Kaye Carter, Keith Ball
As my first time organising the Trivia Night, with Andrew Little taking a lead role, this is held each year at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, with friends, family and local businesses and clubs taking part. The hall was full of tables entering into the trivia night
festivities, with Robert Bredin from the Norwest Sunrise Rotary Club being the Quiz Master and Martin Collins being the MC for the night. The nominated charity by Co- President Anne Sharpe and Co-President Sandra White was Escabags, but unfortunately they were unable to attend, due to other commitments. The theme colour forhe event was yellow, with lots of fun outfits and hats being worn. Raffles were held anddonations made, adding to the fun on the night. We also initiated payments via the trybooking.com website, with some resistance, but with some people paying on the event platform. Hopefully in the future, this platform will become more popular as people are more comfortable using it. We also had a front desk this time, which streamlined people who wanted to pay cash on the night and buy raffle tickets. Our Rotary Club has many fantastic members to support the Trivia Night with everyone pitching in on the night.
Trivia Night 2025 financials: Income $5,696 | Expenses $2,539 | Profit $3,157
Our BBQs are always a Club favourite too with four (4) Bunnings BBQs and one (1) for Mirvac taking place which were fundraising events and one (1) for the Bunnings Spring Launch, raising money for Motor Neurone Disease, which was a Community event, six (6) in total, where we have the process down to a fine art and members enjoying the comradeship that comes with these BBQs.
Trivia Night 2025 – 16th August 2025
Committee Members: Robyn Hain, Andrew Little, Carol Russell, Karen Lambert, Kaye Carter, Keith Ball
As my first time organising the Trivia Night, with Andrew Little taking a lead role, this is held each year at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, with friends, family and local businesses and clubs taking part. The hall was full of tables entering into the trivia night
festivities, with Robert Bredin from the Norwest Sunrise Rotary Club being the Quiz Master and Martin Collins being the MC for the night. The nominated charity by Co- President Anne Sharpe and Co-President Sandra White was Escabags, but unfortunately they were unable to attend, due to other commitments. The theme colour forhe event was yellow, with lots of fun outfits and hats being worn. Raffles were held anddonations made, adding to the fun on the night. We also initiated payments via the trybooking.com website, with some resistance, but with some people paying on the event platform. Hopefully in the future, this platform will become more popular as people are more comfortable using it. We also had a front desk this time, which streamlined people who wanted to pay cash on the night and buy raffle tickets. Our Rotary Club has many fantastic members to support the Trivia Night with everyone pitching in on the night.
Trivia Night 2025 financials: Income $5,696 | Expenses $2,539 | Profit $3,157
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GIANT Book Sale 2026 – 6th, 7th & 8th March 2026
Committee Members: Bob Davison, Bev Davison, Karen Lambert, Carol Russell, Neville Hansen, Robyn Hain, George Chenouda
Another GIANT Book Sale for 2026 was had with so many great members being part of the crew that enabled it to make it as successful as it was. With loads of enquiries coming in daily and lots of books being dropped off at our house drop-off locations, our
members were going home tired from each of the 3 book sorts from the number of books being sorted and culled. The 3 days of the sale were fantastic with over 1,000 people attending and the RuffTRACK Coffee Van was on hand for all those people
wanting a cuppa.
Rol, categories being changed thanks to Sue Collins and making the sorting much quicker, a price increase with the Priced Books and free books at the front desk. The food was delicious for all the volunteers and lots of it thanks to all the girls in the
kitchen, and to all the members that were there for the clean-up, which was done in 1.5 hours can you believe.
Lots of suggestions were taken at the debrief in 2026 for 2027 and will be looked at next year. Honestly a big thank you to everybody who was involved, it was so great to see the comradery within the Club.
GIANT Book Sale financials: Income $25,808 | Expenses $2,521 | Profit $23,287.
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Bunnings BBQs
Yes, we had 4 Bunnings BBQs over the 2025-26 period plus one for Mirvac as well. These BBQs are always a great opportunity to socialise with club members and volunteers and with them always being very profitable for the Club.
We are limited by Bunnings HQ to selling sausages, onion, bread, drinks and cakes, but who can go past a sausage sandwich at Bunnings.
A big shout out to Kerry Mann for all the rostering, organising and leadership on the day for the BBQ side, we couldn’t do it without her! And also, to Janelle Craig for the great work organising all the bakers at each BBQ, great job girls!!
Kerry wanted me to also mention the Motor Neurone Disease BBQ we did as a charity event for the Bunnings Spring Launch as well, which we raised funds for this worthy cause.
The figures for the 4 x Bunnings BBQs including 1 x Mirvac are:
Income $18,117 | Expenses $4,760 | Profit $13,357.
Yes, we had 4 Bunnings BBQs over the 2025-26 period plus one for Mirvac as well. These BBQs are always a great opportunity to socialise with club members and volunteers and with them always being very profitable for the Club.
We are limited by Bunnings HQ to selling sausages, onion, bread, drinks and cakes, but who can go past a sausage sandwich at Bunnings.
A big shout out to Kerry Mann for all the rostering, organising and leadership on the day for the BBQ side, we couldn’t do it without her! And also, to Janelle Craig for the great work organising all the bakers at each BBQ, great job girls!!
Kerry wanted me to also mention the Motor Neurone Disease BBQ we did as a charity event for the Bunnings Spring Launch as well, which we raised funds for this worthy cause.
The figures for the 4 x Bunnings BBQs including 1 x Mirvac are:
Income $18,117 | Expenses $4,760 | Profit $13,357.
Movies Under the Stars
I’ll make a quick mention to our inaugural Movies Under the Stars event which the Committee worked on, and time was put into in the 2025-26 Rotary year but unfortunately did not happen. But will be an up-and-coming event for the 2026-27 period.
Summary:
In total we raised the following amounts in income:
I’ll make a quick mention to our inaugural Movies Under the Stars event which the Committee worked on, and time was put into in the 2025-26 Rotary year but unfortunately did not happen. But will be an up-and-coming event for the 2026-27 period.
Summary:
In total we raised the following amounts in income:
Robyn
