Ok, a little longer than a week – 8 or 9 days then.
- 30th Party. Great!! Resos LOVED it. Connie, Madeline and I have spent a little time reviewing the event – picking out the good, the bad and the ugly. Overall it was an enormous success.
- Josh F and Julie B @ Romana. Regardless of the result of the upcoming election this was something of a red letter day in our history (someone reading this please enlighten us all to the meaning of ‘red letter day’) To be able to have Josh introduce several of our resos BY NAME to Julie was quite something. I learned much from the occasion. Again, the resos were pretty excited by the visit.
- I presented about the work of Servants twice this week – once to Strathcona Year 9 campus, Tay Cragen (ok, spelling error to be sure) and once to the Victorian Quilter’s Guild. The talk to TC was good, the talk to VQG was nothing short of spectacular.
- Housing Blitz. This is the name that has been given by the Dept to their desire to give millions of bucks away to Housing Associations and Providers to help them put additional housing on the ground for women at risk of family violence. Amanda and I will be inspecting a property in the early part of the week ahead to see if it might be possible for us to house women at the site. Doubtless there will be significantly more details to follow here should we deem the site appropriate for our use.
- $5000. One of our supporters is the former CEO of a big Australian corporate. He looks after us by dropping money into our account on occasions. A few days days was the occasion of him depositing 5k into our account. Nice!! In other money news Hawthorn Community Chest informed me they will be providing us with 3k towards our Romana solar installation project. Oh yes, the Dept informed me that our application to them for $$$ for the solar installation has been approved.
- Budget. Warren, Isaac, Madeline, Amanda and I have now finalized the budget figures for 16/17. All will be revealed very shortly.
- Most of the above named people have been hammering away at the Business plan for 16/17 too.
- Low turnover at all the houses. Almost to the point of non-existence in fact!
- People are now starting to show significant interest in Team Servants ’16. The event is Sunday 24th July.
- Work on the roof/guttering at Carrical continues.
Even by our own standards this has been quite a few days ………………..