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Mooloolah Valley facility an Australian first The first Eating Disorder Clinic in Australia, to be located on Old Gympie Road at Mooloolah Valley, has taken major steps forward. Sunshine Coast Council has approved the development application and last week the charity received a significant donation from well known Sunshine Coast philanthropists Roy and Nola Thompson. Roy recently handed a cheque for $1 million over to Mark Forbes who, along with his wife Gay, are the co-founders of the endED charity. Mark shared with me the story of his meeting with Roy and the informal way he advised Mark of his and Nola’s decision to support the centre. Mark is clearly grateful for Roy's generosity and admired his humble approach to the support. The huge donation is a significant step forward on the charity’s journey to turning a vision into a reality. And while the rest of us may not be in a position to provide such a large donation, there is another, fun and glamorous way you can support the group – by attending ‘The Main
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Event’, a fundraising cocktail evening on July 20 at the Lake Kawana Community Centre. Tickets are $150 per person and can be purchased from the website: ended.org.au/events. When the project is complete the not-for-profit facility will offers a safe haven for people suffering from an eating disorder to begin their journey to a recovered self. Mark said the facility will provide residential treatment options, as well as out-patient services and day programs for continuation of care, focusing primarily on teaching individuals “how”
to recover. “It will provide specialist care using evidencebased research recognised as world best practice,” he said. “Individualised programs combining psychological, conventional and functional medicine, and whole person therapy based treatment will be offered in the rural residential setting." Now that the development application has successfully gone through council the purchase of the property will settle in early July. The next stage of the project will be for the organisation to find businesses that will support the construction work. They will be looking for civil contractors and tradespeople to complete roofing, trusses, tiling, windows and doors, as well as material donations. If you would like to find out more about the organisation or would like to support the work they are doing, visit www.endED.org.au or call Mark on 0407 592 932.
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