Thank-you for volunteering your feet in the Ampersand Walk!
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And thank-you to those walkers that have already returned their sponsorship money and receipt books. Your fundraising has exceeded expectations!
To the rest of you please note: the fundraising deadline is fast approaching.
It's time to get your family, mates and colleagues to honour their pledges of support... We need those sponsorship dollars by Friday 16th November.
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But please don't send cash in an envelope! To ensure your sponsorship money arrives securely:
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- Send in a cheque or money order (made out to ‘Ampersand Walk’, with your team name printed on the back) to 537 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy North 3068; or
- Deposit your donations at a National Australia Bank branch or via electronic transfer to NAB account ‘Ampersand Walk’ (BSB 083 457 A/C 87449 3627). Please ensure you enter your team name in the ‘transaction description’ or ‘deposited by’ field.
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Providing your team name is critically important... It is the only way we can know to direct your money to the organisation you've nominated to support!
Your contribution, together with funds raised by other teams, will be transferred to your chosen organisation after the fundraising deadline.
Fundraising laws also require us to have all sponsorship booklets returned. We ask that these are also sent (with all pages intact, regardless of whether they have been written on) to the Brunswick Street address by Friday 16th November.
And don't forget that there are four Fitness HQ gym memberships up for grabs! A terrific reward for the team that raises the most money!
Thank-you all again for supporting the inaugural Ampersand Walk!
And watch this space for the fundraising count...
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About the event
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The Ampersand Walk is a 30km endurance challenge for teams of four, taking place around Melbourne's Capital City Trail on Saturday 6th October, 2007.
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Commencing at Birrarung Marr near Flinders Street Station at 8am, teams head out along Southbank, The Docklands and Moonee Ponds Creek, the former Inner Circle Rail Reserve from Royal Park and the Merri Creek and Yarra River Trails.
Teams commit to raising $400 for one of five not-for-profit organisations doing great work with young people in communities.
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The Ampersand Walk is a project of the Ampersand Network, an entirely youth-run organisation committed to making volunteering more accessible to young people.
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How to register
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Teams of four can register now!
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Click here to register your team online.
Or alternatively, download a team registration form here and return it to:
Ampersand Walk Team
537 Brunswick Street
Fitzroy North VIC 3068
A $25 per person (or $100 per team) registration fee applies.
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Participants' briefing night
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An information session for Ampersand Walkers will be held in the week prior to the event. It is compulsory for at least one representative from each team to attend, as the presenters will provide instructions for event day, tips for ensuring participants’ safety and wellbeing, and important insight into the work of the organisation your team has chosen to support.
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| 6:30pm-7:30pm followed by a free BBQ dinner
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| | Thursday 4th October, 2007
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| | Australian Red Cross
47 Villiers Street
North Melbourne
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| | Monday 1st October, 2007 (to thewalk@ampersand.org.au).
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Fundraising
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Each team in the Ampersand Walk commits to raising $400 for the organisation they most want to support.
Within three working days, participants should receive a receipt book by email, in which they can record donations made to their team by families, friends and colleagues. Please ensure that all donor details are provided, as we legally require an accurate record of all tax-deductible receipts issued.
Your sponsors can also make their donations online at https://www.ourcommunity.com.au/secure/giving/donate.form?appealId=1260.
Participants have until Friday 16th November to return all donated money and receipt books to the Ampersand Walk, 537 Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy, VIC 3068.
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Organisations to support in 2007
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| Ardoch Youth Foundation
| Ardoch Youth Foundation is a community funded, non-profit organisation, which has been working to make education a reality for young people, including those experiencing homelessness and disadvantage, since 1988. Ardoch trains corporate and community volunteers to work with primary and secondary school students, and develops programs that help make school a happy, engaging place where children learn. Volunteers provide in-class support, tutor and mentor individual students, run breakfast programs and coordinate lunchtime activities.
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| | Australian Red Cross
| Since 1914, Australian Red Cross has been responding to the needs of Australians in suburbs and towns across the country. Central to the delivery of a number of important Australian Red Cross projects in metropolitan Melbourne and rural Victoria is Yconnect?, an innovative group comprised of volunteers aged 18-35. Yconnect? programs are developed and coordinated solely by young people in the community and provide the opportunity for young people to participate in interesting, relevant and challenging volunteer work.
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| | Edmund Rice Camps Vic.
| Edmund Rice Camps is a not-for-profit, volunteer organisation which hosts camps and holiday programs for disadvantaged children and families throughout Victoria. All participants who attend Edmund Rice Camps are referred by welfare agencies. The camps take place every school holidays at a variety of locations. Young adult volunteers (principally aged between 17-30 years) provide care, supervision and sound role–modeling for participants on a one-to-one basis.
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| | Student Partnerships Worldwide
| SPW is an international development organisation that recruits and trains young adults (aged 18-28) as volunteer Peer Educators, to lead programs that address urgent health and environmental issues in Africa and Asia. SPW currently has more than 800 volunteer Peer Educators in the field reaching 400,000 young people each year at an annual cost of just $12 per child. SPW values and seeks to harness young people’s energy and talents, so that they can take a lead role in the development process.
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| | SYN
| Launched in January 2003, SYN is proudly Melbourne's only independent youth media organisation. SYN broadcasts on one of the largest community radio licences on 90.7 FM. SYN is responsible for producing 5 hours of live youth television each week for Channel 31, produces a regular e-zine, among other original publications, and manages www.syn.org.au, an interactive online community for young people aged 18-26 to exhibit, distribute and share their content to their peers and the world.
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Event day
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All participants will be required to check in with event officials and collect their team bibs between 7am and 7:30am on Saturday 6th October. A staggered start will begin at 8am.
Stick together with your team mates! At each of the five rest stops along the trail, your team will be required to be marked off as a group.
Showbags can be collected at the finishing line at Birrarung Marr upon completion of the trail.
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Event supporters
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The Ampersand Walk Team is grateful for the generous support of these organisations:
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