Parents and supporters of Marnebek Special School enjoyed the World’s Biggest Morning Tea recently to help raise funds for their school and the Cancer Council, back, from left: Lesley Whitham, Barbara Brownbill, Karen Walker, Sharon Russell and Catherine Lampard. Front: Ben Lampard.
PARENTS and carers from Marnebek Special School in Cranbourne came together recently to have a cuppa for a cause.
As part of the World’s Biggest Morning Tea event, the group met at Westfield Fountain Gate and not only helped raise funds for the Cancer Council but helped support their school.
The Narre Warren Shopping Centre held a Shop For Your School bonus point promotion in conjunction with the morning tea.
The annual Shop For Your School program, conducted by Westfield, rewards schools every time customers shop at its shopping centres and gives the community the opportunity to win computers and other prizes for their schools.
Shoppers earn reward points through the redemption of Westfield dockets, which are then tallied and accredited to that shopper’s nominated school.
As part of the morning tea, the centre offered registered Shop For Your School customers 50 bonus points each for their nominated school for every coffee, tea and hot chocolate purchased.
Fundraising coordinator from Marnebek, Karen Walker, said the morning had been a great opportunity for the school’s supporters to catch up and raise some bonus points for the school as well as money for cancer.
The school has 169 students aged between five and 18 years and with various disabilities.
Ms Walker said a main prize for this year’s Shop for Your School campaign was a school makeover by Channel 7’s ‘Better Homes and Gardens’ and Marnebek supporters had their fingers crossed that they would be named the winners.
“We would love to get the makeover as we would really love a sensory garden. That is something we really need,” she said.
