Long table funds community work

The new Bunbury museum, Royal Flying Doctor Service and Melanoma WA were announced this week as the major beneficiaries for next year’s Chefs’ Long Table Lunch.

Along with Bunbury Men’s Shed, The South West Wind and Jazz Orchestra, Hands Up 4 Kids and the Bunbury Historical Society, the organisations will share more than $70,000 expected to be raised by the iconic event.

Chefs’ Long Table Lunch chairman Gary Fitzgerald said the seven beneficiaries were chosen for the important role they played and because they served a wide cross section of the South West community.

He said it had been a difficult task for the Chefs’ Long Table Lunch committee to narrow down the 18 candidates to the final seven beneficiaries and thanked all the applicants for putting their cases forward.

Bunbury Museum and Heritage Centre fundraising foundation chairman Stephen Craddock said the money, about $38,000, would go towards creating The Classroom area inside the new museum.

The Classroom will recreate a school room from the 19th century with old-fashioned desks and blackboards used to teach children about the history of Bunbury and the museum building.

Melanoma WA will use the money to run a second Bunbury Melanoma March fun run, an event aimed at uniting the community in the fight against Melanoma skin cancer.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Flying 1000 will buy four multi-therapy infusion pumps to administer infusions or drugs to patients during air transfers.

Tickets are now on sale for the February 22 event on the Chefs’ Long Table Lunch website.

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