Happy 2012 everyone, hope the silly season was silly, fun, relaxing and renewing! Its my first day back in Brisbane after holidays home to NZ, what a lovely surprise to find that myself and some lovely community members have hit the front page of Brisbanes’ West Side News. In an effort to promote Volunteer work …
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A successful Christmas celebration with children from LuWQ and the RAQ Inc.
December seen the very first christmas party for the children of the Liberian United Women of Queensland (LUWQ) and yet another year of Christmas cheer for the children of the Rwandan association. Approximately 90 children aged between 3months – 13 years received gifts from the 100 Gifts for Christmas collection. Made possible by the combined …
100 Gifts for Christmas in the media
This week the ’100 Gifts for Kids at Christmas’ story was fortunate enough to make it into local Brisbane newspaper, ‘City South News’ (printed by Quest Newspapers). Quest Newspapers were delighted to hear about this project and were keen as mustard to organise a photo shoot and write up a bit of a good news story. …
100 Gifts for kids at Christmas gains momentum
The 100 Gifts for multi-cultural kids at Christmas collection has taken off! From the first email sent on 01 Nov 2011 till today almost 70 gifts have been received. There are more being delivered throughout this week and next. Gifters’ and volunteers have generously provided gifts, picked up and delivered gifts, wrapped gifts and there …
100 gifts for underprivileged kids at christmas
This Christmas, are you looking for a way to show your child or a child you know just how fortunate they are? Bronwyn Tutty from Time on Your Hands invites you and your child or children to help make a happier Christmas for 100 underprivileged multi-cultural children living in Brisbane through the ’100 Gifts for Christmas’ initiative. These children are likely …
Sara joins ToYH…..welcome
Time on Your Hands would like to welcome Sara Hanlon, book keeper and organisational extraordinaire into the team. Sara has skills in setting up, administering and keeping everything under control with small to medium sized businesses. Sara will be assisting Time on Your Hands with keeping its financials up to date…..and the role will grow …
Melbourne cup fires up at Communify
Communify staff gathered together to share a delicious spread of Prawns, Avocado, salad, strawberries washed down with Champagne and Lindt chocolate to celebrate the annual Melbourne Cup festivities. 30 minutes before the race all staff were sent off to their respective offices to create race day hats/fascinators or head pieces. The only rule was, you …
Advice on buying 2nd hand computer with all the bells and whistles for between $250 – $500!
This has been a week of sharing the ‘bargain love’ with folk with buying a second hand computer and getting it up and running with all the bells and whistles (Windows operating system, Word Processing, internet access, skype and antivirus etc). For basic computing needs an ex government computer which has been fully refurbished will …
Keeping busy with Community databases
Bronwyn has been a busy little bee, working on the ‘Whole of Centre Database’ specification document for Communify QLD. The document is now complete and has been sent off to various developers for comment on how their product may meet Communifys operational needs. Bronwyn is also working closely with the Welfare service designing an interim …
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