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Events and State Committees

This financial year has seen a return to our full volunteer State Fundraising Committee events program post the disruptions of the last couple of years, allowing WaterAid to hold a total of 21 events across Australia.

These events continue to attract great support from the water sector through sponsorship, prize donation and attendance. This year across our four Gala Balls in Brisbane, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne we had a collective of 115 different sponsors. This not only led to records in funds raised, but provided all supporters with face to face networking opportunities again.

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In Victoria we held the “Under the Sea” Gala Ball which raised a record amount of over $490,000 and had 560 attendees.

In Queensland we held our very popular annual Golf Day at Brookwater Golf Course, as well as the “Around the World” Gala Ball and two always popular Trivia Nights, collectively raising over $275,000.

In New South Wales our annual Golf Day had 18 different sponsors involved, and the “Tropical Arafura Sea” Gala Ball was held at the Sydney Town Hall with 540 guests attending from across the water industry. Between both we raised over $356,000.

In South Australia we raised over $135,000 through the annual Soccer Tournament, the highly popular 12th anniversary WaterAid Volleyball Tournament, and the “Enchanted Garden” Gala Ball that took place in September at the Adelaide Convention Centre with 350 attendees.

This year Western Australia held a highly successful Lawn Bowls event and Trivia night, as well as including a Wine Wall at the AWA Conference. Collectively these events raised over $23,000.

Together with the State Fundraising Committees and Water Sector Ambassador Groups the total funds raised for the year was more than $1.1million dollars, a direct result of their

Supporters attend a WaterAid

Trivia Night amazing support in building our network of supporters within the water industry and further afield.

WaterAid would like to extend a heartfelt and sincere thank you to our wonderful state Fundraising Committees and Ambassador Groups who volunteer their time to meet with

WaterAid would like to acknowledge and recognise the hard work and dedication to the cause of all current Committee Members and Ambassadors.

New South Wales

Committee: Steve Adamthwaite (Chair), Paul Sproules (Deputy Chair), Chris Godrey (Treasurer), Sharolt Kicsi, Aaron Goth, Stephen Liu, Jessica Benton, Ivan Reolon, Nick Drull and Sameer Joshi.

Ambassadors: Greg Taylor, David Lilley, Jim Livas, Julian Briggs, Ben Newton and Kurt Dahl

Queensland other like-minded individuals to raise vital funds for WaterAid through our events.

Committee: Kate Cash (Chair), Lachlan Green (Deputy Chair), Ajay Thakur (Treasurer), Sheyanne Frisby (Secretary), Mark Kennedy (Deputy Secretary), Ellen Kemp, Claire Engle, Geoff Collins, Jessica Fraser, Eloise Larsen, Joanne Search, Jacob Frampton Scott Fellows and Jackson Price.

Ambassadors: Daniel Lambert (Lead), Mal Shepherd, Mark Pascoe, John Ciccotelli, Dave Taylor, Laura Fluck, Margaret Riley, Patrick Newell, Eric Guthrie and Frank Phillips.

WaterAid would like to acknowledge and recognise the hard work and dedication to the cause of all current Committee Members and Ambassadors.

South Australia

Committee: Richard Petterson (Chair), Stuart Peevor (Deputy Chair), Steve Morton (Treasurer), Robran Cock (Secretary), Brett Reichstein, Adam Medlock, Charlie Litster, Chris Gouletsas, Kim Falster, Loreline Kerlidou, Lucy McCarthy, Meena Yadav, Mitch Laginestra, Nicole Hughes and Shrastra Lama.

Ambassadors: David Ryan, David Howard, Kellie McDonald and Karlene Maywald.

Victoria

Committee: Simon Maher (Chair), Andrew Lawrie (Deputy Chair), Su Ann Khoo (Treasurer), Laurence Newcome (Secretary), Joanne Brincat, Alice Greco.

Ambassadors: Trevor Hall (Lead), Tony Norrish, Damian Bradley, David Kirby, David Papps, Richard McCarthy, Lindsey Brown and Rohan McLellan.

Western Australia

Committee: Cristiano Carvalho (Chair), Kyllie Whitehead (Secretary), Begona Rodriguez (Treasurer), Lisa Chan, Renee Blandin, June Sim, Halina Lamparski, Pat McCaffery and Kate Bowker.

Ambassadors: Garth Walter (Lead).

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