Radford Student Council launches Christmas Appeal

By Miss Melinda Hamilton, Junior School Teacher

Each year, the Radford Student Council (RSC) organises the Junior School disco in Term 3 and uses the proceeds from the ticket sales to support the Christmas Appeal of Capital Regional Community Service. This year the students raised $1812 to put towards gifts and hamper items.

The Capital Regional Community Service put together over 100 hampers every year with Christmas gifts and food items for families in the Belconnen community who access their service and are known by the caseworkers and staff. These hampers help to ensure that no-one goes without over the festive season.

The RSC set off for Kmart early on Tuesday morning, with shopping lists and lots of ideas of gifts they’d like to purchase. We made our way around the store, filling baskets with toys, beauty products, scented candles, stationery, sporting goods, Christmas decorations and plenty more. It was great to see the students working together to choose and calculate their cumulative total to keep within their budget.

At the checkout, plenty of bags were filled to the brim with carefully selected items and our receipt was very, very long! Back at Radford all the gifts were placed in the Magic Bathtub in the Junior School reception.

If you’d like to contribute towards the Capital Regional Community Service's Christmas Appeal, please place unwrapped donations of gifts suitable for babies through to the elderly in the Magic Bathtub in the Junior School reception. Christmas decoration (bon bons, baubles, and home décor) and special foods (chocolates, shortbread, and candy mixes) are also warmly welcomed.

The items are being collected Thursday, 27 November to allow time for CRCS to assemble and distribute the hampers in time for Christmas.