CPS Fundraising & Event Report 21st August 2013

The next Fundraising & Event Meeting is onThursday 22nd Augustat 8pm in the staffroom, although this is the night after the P&C meeting it was needed to be held prior to the Fathers Day Breakfast & the Spring Fair.All welcome, especially new parents & carers. We will be finalising the planning for the upcoming Father’s Day Breakfast on Friday 30thAugust and also the Spring Fair at the Federal Election on Saturday 14th September.

At the last meeting it was agreed to re-allocate the unclaimed Fete prizes to Fathers Day Breakfast, Mums Clothes Swap, Spring Fair 2nd Hand Stall and Year 6 Farewell & Library.

Year 6 Farewell

Lou Penney Catering voucher $150

CPS Library

Books from Glee Books (3x Clementime series and 1x Moshi Monster)

Fathers Day Breakfast Lucky Door Prize

Excelsior Jones Café voucher $50 & Hub House Diner voucher $25 & Urchin Books $30 voucher/6 pack Guinness Beer

Spring Fair Raffle

Greg Perkins Tennis lessons & Sydney Indoor Gym Family pass & Australian Maritime Museum Family Pass

Mums Clothes Swap

Voucher from Meashea Lifestyle $50 & Bel Art Makeover & Make-up bag & Journal from Glee Books & Avon products.

Two major events are coming up:

On Friday 30thAugust the Mums will be cooking up a delicious breakfast for dads, granddads and all the family from 7.30am to 9.20am. Last year this was a fantastic social morning for families and staff!!.Several lucky door prizes for all attendees.(Fathers Day Breakfast 2012 raised $520 & sold 148 Bacon & Egg Rolls). Order form on both the School & P&C website.

CPS is a polling booth for the Federal Elections. On Saturday 7thSeptembera mini Spring Market - a BBQ, cake stall, plant/produce/jam/craft stall, white elephant/2nd hand/bookswill be held to woo the local voters from 8am to 2pm. A coffee van to keep the adults happy, a raffle, a jumping castle & face painting for the kids and the students will entertain everyone with music & singing. (Election Spring Fair 2012 raised $5,600).

We will need parents and carers to help out with both of these events.

Roster - a request out via Canterbury Tales, the P&C & Parent Reps for volunteers to assist on the day. We also need someone who lives locally to volunteer to book a council clean up for the week starting 9th September.

A few parents have already contacted me to advise they are available - Thanks!!!

Posters

Jacqui KR has designed a fabulous poster for the Spring Market Day & Fathers Day Breakfast. Request to P&C members to print colour posters, laminate and put the Spring Market Day posters up around the local neighbourhood area & Fathers Day around the school.

The mums are holding a copy of social events:

- Friday 30th August, the K-2 Mums (plus a couple of yr 3 mums) have planned a social dinner at a local restaurant.

- Sunday 13th October from 2pm, the Mums are holding a clothes swap - this is expected to be another popular social event, with a selection savoury & sweet finger food, a few drinks, a laugh trying on different fashions and whilst at the same time raising funds for the school.

It was also suggested that the P&C apply for various Grants that are available to assist schools.

The committee continues to raise ongoing funds.

The sale of the 2nd hand uniforms is proving popular and is a great way to recycle unwanted uniforms (we are still looking for a couple of Kindy mums to take over the organising of this) and the P&C continues to receive commission from “Stuck on You Labels”.A number of families have purchased thenew issue of theEntertainment Book(with $13 from each book sold going to the P&C).

The P&C has now signed up to Aussie Farmers Direct - an Australian ownedhome delivery food business for ongoing fundraising. Members are able to nominate CPS on the order and 2% of weekly grocery spends are donated back every six months.

All funds raised from the events will be used to benefit the students at CPS.

Advance planning for 2014 includes an outdoor Movie Night and Trivia Night in Term 1 and a Bunnings BBQ later in the year.

For further information on any P&C Events or Fundraising please contact Suzanne