COMMUNITAS REPORT
Communitas: making a difference
Walk for a Week 2021
Despite the challenges of another lockdown-affected year, the St Hilda’s community banded together in the spirit of Communitas to give back to the broader community through a variety of charity and fundraising events. Kicking off in April, we formed a Lifeblood team and began routine trips to the blood bank to donate much-needed blood and plasma. This initiative gained momentum as the year progressed, cultivating in a landslide victory in the Intercollegiate Blood Drive and an amazing total of 102 donations for the year which will go on to save around 306 lives. Walk for a Week returned to the calendar in August, where we challenged the College to always have at least one student walking around the front and back quads for a full week. In total, we managed to cover approximately 870km across
Naomi Luhan particpating in the 2021 Intercollegiate Blood Drive
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the 168 hours, and raise $4,259 for the McGrath Foundation and its invaluable breast cancer care.
Sony Foundation. We have also been contacting a wide range of businesses, sporting teams, alumni, and parents to source some amazing items for an online auction that will launch early next year.
At the beginning of September, resident hairdressers Fred Hughes and Mali Gordon gave around 30 St Hilda’s students and tutors dashing The amazing team of Charity mullets to support the Black Dog Convenors (Oliver Merchant, Zara Institute’s Mullets for Mental Health Williams, India Veevers, and Holly initiative. As well as McGrath) and I would raising a staggering like to thank everyone in We have been able $11,389 to support the St Hilda’s community to make a significant the organisation’s that made these contribution to the life-saving work, events possible and community around this event triggered contributed in whatever incredibly important way they could. We have us during tough time. conversations been able to make a about mental health significant contribution and raised awareness around this to the community around us during important topic in our community. tough times, and we hope that giving back and service will continue to be at The grand finale for the year was Gala the heart of St Hilda’s values moving Night, where we ran a talent auction forward. that sold some of the best skills and items from within the College. Luke Williams Ranging from a whiskey tasting night Communitas Director 2021 to customised crochet items, the auction drew significant interest and raised a huge total of $6,148 for the
