Fundraiser of the Month
Fundraiser of the Month - APRIL
BLUESFEST – Alan & Jenny Tunks
Once again we are pleased to report on our most successful Gibson Guitar Raffle, in both funds raised and CF awareness raised.
The 21st Byron Bay Bluesfest, Australia's Premier Blues & Roots Music Festival, was held from April 1-5 at its new home 10 mins north of Byron Bay on the Pacific Highway on a 100ha Tea Tree Farm at Tyagarah. Approximately 85,000 people attended, with 600 Artists and over 200 performances for 12 hours daily, on six stages during the five days.
The Festival's design and layout was first class, the weather was great, warm sunshine, some cloud build up and the odd light shower. The CF Stall was well situated at the main south gate entrance/exit, providing us with excellent exposure. This year a total of 25 volunteers worked over the five days with many doubling up for a second day.
This was the 7th successive year that Gibson Guitars have donated prizes for the raffle, which were also the most valuable and much sought after by festival goers. These were three Gibson Les Paul "Studio Swamp Ash" Electric Guitars with hard cases.
The lucky raffle winners were:
1st Prize - won by Ryan Pintley of Sydney NSW.
2nd Prize -won by Wayne Busby of Carseldine QLD.
3rd Prize - won by Paul Baines of Wellington NZ.
Again, many of the major performing artists supported our cause by autographing the guitars. They included to name but a few - Jack Johnson, Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa, Troy Cassar-Daley and Donovan Frankenreiter.
A Total of $30,722.00 was raised from raffle ticket sales and numerous donations. This was our best result to date and will take our cumulative fundraising total from the Bluesfest to over $180,000.00.
The all-important pre, during and post festival exposure and awareness of CF were of our highest profile to date. The guitar raffle promotion took place, for the first time, two weekends before Easter at The Ballina/Byron Ramada Hotel & Suites. Our thanks to Bluesfest who have now allocated us our own webpage to display and promote the raffle prizes and our cause.
Our thanks also to local business and supporters in Ballina who got behind us during the lead up to the event.
Throughout the five days, CF raffle electronic screen ads were displayed hourly on the eight large screens around the festival grounds and stages along with our prominent CF stall banners and logo boards and our 2.3 metre tall cut out guitars endorsed with the red CF logo.
Our hardworking team of volunteers were all well presented and decked out in CF t-shirts, caps and official CF ID lanyards. The main stage raffle draw on Monday night was again a standout with festival owner Peter Noble and festival manager Annika Oman both donning the white CF caps.
Many thanks to all those involved in this great success and CFNSW would especially like to thank Alan and Jenny Tunk’s for their inspirational and tireless efforts to further the cause of CFNSW by raising both funds and awareness.
