April 2009
At BIG4 Holiday Parks and online at big4.com.au
To help support the Clown Doctors annual FUN-raiser Smile Day (April 1st each year), BIG4 donated 5% of all new and rejoining BIG4 Membership Sales made in April 2009.
$11, 181.50 was raised as a result. Thank you to everyone who joined or rejoined BIG4 in April to help us support the Clown Doctors and their cause.
April 2009
At participating BIG4 Holiday Parks and online at big4.com.au
To help promote the Clown Doctors annual FUN-raiser Smile Day (April 1st each year), BIG4 hosted a national Colouring in Competition.
Visit the colouring in competition page to the left to find out more, or click here!
Easter School Holidays, 2009
BIG4 Port Fairy, Port Fairy, VIC
The kids at BIG4 Port Fairy over the Easter School Holidays raised $150 from their activities. Looks like it was all play and no work!
Easter Saturday, 11th April, 2009
Lake Ainsworth Holiday Park, Lennox Head, NSW
Lake Ainsworth Holiday Park held a sausage sizzle to raise money for the Clown Doctors on Easter Saturday 2009. They cooked up a whopping 10kg of sausages and raised $221.45 from them, and raised an additional $141 from the collection tin. As you can see - there were smiles all round!
Monday 16th Feburary until Saturday 28th February 2009
big4.com.au
In response to the Victorian Bushfire crisis, BIG4 donated all proceeds of online BIG4 Membership Sales to the Clown Doctors to fund emergency visits to the fire affected communities and victims. Over the two weeks, BIG4 was able to raise $18, 680 for the Clown Doctors helping them add more rounds to the Melbourne hospitals housing burns victims, and for the King Lake community effort.
October 17th 2008
BIG4 2008 National Conference, Cairns
While everyone enjoyed a laugh over dinner with the Clown Doctors (see picture right), the fun really started when the charity auction commenced.
With our very own BIG4 auctioneer, Allan Walls of St Helens Caravan Park, and Tower Business and Real Estate at the helm, bidding was furious, resulting in $105,000 being raised – a record for any Clown Doctor fundraiser.
Philip East with Alan Walls-
sporing his new 'do'
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$12,000 of the final amount was raised by Alan himself for the fabulous hair do, see the picture right. While other items included:
- Gloria Cregan of BIG4 Nelligen Holiday Park donated her set of Pearls, only to be handed them back by Life Member Hazel Elsley who purchased them for $9,000.
- BIG4 CEO Terry Goodall was auctioned off twice for $15,000 each
- A once in a lifetime Clown Round, where you get to accompany the Clown Doctors, was sold for $11,000
Special thanks to all the auction sponsors: Britz Campervans, The Clown Doctors, Cadburys, Commonwealth Bank, K-Mac Powerheads, Parkequip, Playspace Playgrounds, RMS, Sleepmaker, Terry Goodall, Josh Bell from KOA (Kampgrounds of America), Gloria Cregan and Alan Walls.
April 2008
Australia wide
For every Member that joined in April 2008, BIG4 pledged to donate 5% of the Membership fee to the Clown Doctors.
The final figure was $7136. Now that's a lot of smiles!
On Wednesday June 18th, 2008 BIG4 CEO Terry Goodall presented a cheque for this amount to The Humour Foundation in Sydney.
April 1st 2008
Ocean Beach Holiday Park, Umina Beach, NSW
For Smile Day, April 1st, 2008 Ocean Beach Holiday Park were ‘clowning around’ to raise funds for the Clown Doctors. The Ocean Beach staff dressed up as Clowns to raise gold coin donations for the Clown Doctors!
March 21st-23rd 2008
BIG4 Shepparton East Holiday Park, Shepparton, VIC
To support the Clown Doctors over Easter, BIG4 Shepparton East Holiday Park held a hot cross bun morning tea and raised $100 for the Clown Doctors!
October 25th 2007BIG4 National Conference, Adelaide
To launch BIG4’s association with the Clown Doctors we held a BIG auction and raffle at our National Conference in October, 2007. With fantastic items up for grabs, including a 10kg block of chocolate and a very special “BIG4” license plate, we managed to raise $39,515 for the Clown Doctors!