With another huge effort from our amazing team and members of the local community, we finally have cover overhead – for our horses and for our people.
We are no longer working under a gazebo on the nature strip. We no longer have our belongings spread across numerous homes across the coast and jammed into a shipping container on that same nature strip.
After 10 long, hard and seemingly endless months, we have a beautiful new storage shed, shelter for our volunteers, a bathroom, shelter for the horses, power and water.
There are many people to thank, but none are owed the debt of gratitude that we owe to our incredible team of volunteers. They have worked through rain, flooding, endless mud, ceaseless heat from an unforgiving sun and are still with us. They are unstoppable! Somehow, despite the harsh conditions, our team has continually grown throughout the year and we now have the largest, most resilient, tightest, kindest, most incredible team we could have ever hoped for. Thank you will never be enough.
To our major partners, Community Bank Sunshine Coast and Petstock Foundation – your unwavering support has sustained us in so many ways. Thank You.
To our grant funders and donors including Buderim Foundation, The Arches Foundation, Experience Eumundi, Eumundi Voice, Rotary Club of Cooroy Queensland, Eumundi Rotary Club, Cooroy Rag, Sisters of Charity Foundation, Quant Technologies, Westfund, Kinetic, Maroochy RSL, Lions Club of Mooloolaba, Toc H Bribie Island, Hello Blue Productions, Cooroy Pomona Lions Club, Maroochy North Shore Lions, Universal Charitable Fund, Noosa Community Foundation Forum and RACQ Foundation. Your support has enabled us to continue to support the community all year. Thank You.
To the volunteers from Noosa Toyota, Gympie Suzuki, Gympie Toyota, Gympie MG and Gympie Mazda who turned out for a working bee last week and worked SO hard to get us moved in – including moving and laying almost 2 tonnes of rubber matting! Thank You.
To Paul and his team at AMAC Cranes Group who saved us once again by lifting our shipping container, portable office, stable mats and vet crush into place. Thank You.
To Graham from Wurtulla Plumbing and Drainage for donating his time on a weekend to get our water troughs connected. Thank You.
And last but very much not least… to Will and Nathan from Sunshine Coast Council who have worked miracles to deliver what they have with the incredibly limited budget they were given. Thank You.
Next comes the renovation of an old caravan that will become a tea room for our volunteers and a portable office for our program team to work from. We’ll keep you posted as our facilities start to resemble a workplace once again!
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