The Empowerment Challenge Launch on October 17th 2019 was absolutely amazing.
The launch night saw almost 200 people attending, it was beyond our expectations. It was an unforgettable evening with Nicky Buckley emceeing and the incredible speakers Jules Allen and Lynda Mori sharing their powerful stories (these 3 wonderful women also donated their time to the event).
We also had many many silent auction/raffle items and general auction items donated, plus two amazing cash donations – one from Jayco Caravans Australia for $5000 and one from the Electrical Trades Union for $5000. The monies raised from the auctions in addition to these cash donations and ticket sales resulted in a phenomenal $28,000 raised from the night. WOW!
Our Sponsors
A HUGE Thank you again to all our supporters – Brown Ink Design, Lucas Spokes MCP Financial, Jayco caravans, the ETU, Peter Norman – Hayeswinckle, Calls Assist, The Pier Geelong & Stockroom567 – particularly Gerry Ryan from Jayco Caravans & The Electrical Trades Union who both donated a further $5,000 each towards our cause on the night.
Supporters
To everyone who donated auction/silent auction/raffle items on the night THANK YOU. We raised SO much from these items. Michelle from Hayeswinckle ran the auctions – WOW!!!! You were incredible & we definitely wouldn’t have raised so much without your amazing auctioneer skills.
Nicky Buckley
To our amazing MC Nicky Buckley- thank you for keeping the night running so smoothly and for connecting so well with our audience, we really appreciate it so much.
Our Speakers
To our speakers Jules Allen & Lynda Mori – your vulnerability & strength in sharing your stories was amazing. Your stories touched so many and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your courage.
Michelle
To our beautiful strong board member Michelle who shared her story as a younger mum in the video ‘16 on a bus’. We know how difficult it was to delve back into this time but you bravely shared anyway as you knew how important it was to our cause. Incredible & we love you.
Thanks to YOU
And finally to ALL OF YOU! To everyone who bought tickets and came to support us – THANK YOU. Because of your generosity we are now ONE STEP CLOSER to achieving our goals and supporting younger mums.
We’ll leave you with this quote that Shannon shared on the night from Mother Teresa:
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples”.
Continue to support us
We would love you to continue sharing our vision and talk to everyone you know about us. Who do you know who might like to support us further? We have cast that stone. Now it’s time to turn those ripples into a Tsunami and with our EMPOWERMENT CHALLENGE ARMY behind us, we believe it’s possible.