Farmers Market donates $5,000 to supply crucial medical equipment for Grenfell Community Health Service
The Capital Region Farmers Market and its founder, the Rotary Club of Hall, presented a donation of $5,000 yesterday to the Grenfell Community Health Service. This donation will help the organisation buy the necessary equipment to best care for the local community.
Grenfell Community Health Service provides a wide range of clinical and allied health services to the community including nursing, social workers, mental and physical health as well as visiting services such as psychology, dietician and occupational therapy.
Lynne Peterson, team leader at Grenfell Community Health Service, said the Community is thrilled and very grateful to the Capital Region Farmers Market and the Rotary Club of Hall for their generosity.
“Donations like this are extremely rare and a great asset to our ability to provide and enhance care to the people of the Weddin Districts. Sometimes our Community Health Service can be overlooked for the hospital’s more acute service needs so such a large donation is crucial to us,” Lynne said.
Community Health Service plays a large part in the life of the Grenfell community and the $5,000 donation will help it purchase a mobile palliative bed, portable baby scales, a carry bag and a baby measuring tape as well as a marquee used during outside education sessions.
“I am looking forward to using this equipment to care for the people of all ages in the community,” Lynne added.
All funds generated from the Farmers Market, approximately $150,000 a year, are fed back into the Canberra regional community and other international charities through projects chosen by the Rotary Club of Hall.
Using the funds generated by the Capital Region Farmers Market, the Rotary Club of Hall has been able to support various local organisations such as the Greenhill Youth Centre, a Community Pipe Band, SouthCare, SmartStart for Kids! Program, the Paediatrics group at the Canberra Hospital (PaTCH) which makes patchwork quilts for kids in hospital and many more community organisations. Market funds have even been able to refurbish books for a primary school in Vanuatu.
The Capital Region Farmers Market is a genuine farmers market with over 100 stalls offering a diverse range of fresh food and agricultural produce straight from the producer to the customer. It is open every Saturday morning at the Exhibition Park (EPIC) in Canberra from 8 am to 11 am.
For more information on Capital Regional Farmers Market, visit www.capitalregionfarmersmarket.com.au.
