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Protect Wooli From Coastal Erosion

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Mike and Gayle Koolen

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 Mike and Gayle Koolen, Wooli supporters and owners of Essential Brands, came up with a novel idea for raising funds for the Protect Wooli campaign.

In 2012, they agreed with the Wooli Bowling Club to provide the self-service coffee machine you’ll see at the club and to donate the proceeds of coffee sales to CCPA. In an extremely generous gesture, they also provided the coffee, milk and sugar for the machine free of charge for over a year.

Since then, thanks to the Koolens, the Bowling Club and all their coffee-drinking patrons, the Protect Wooli campaign has received over $10,000 from coffee machine sales. So huge thanks, Mike and Gayle, for this continuing generosity.

 

Donations Hall of Fame

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Since it began in 2010 the Protect Wooli campaign has needed donations  to fund important research into the natural forces which shape our beach.

 

 

This research included the Expert Report about the Beach in 2011, the computerised camera system on the water-tower and the quarterly surveys measuring changes in the beach. Donations paid for the professional time and equipment needed for this research. Donations have also been used to pay administrative costs for projectors, microphones, flip-charts and registration fees for CCPA.

Many members and supporters of CCPA have given generously to the campaign in terms of their money  and/or their time. However, there is a small but growing group of donors who have, and continue to be, outstandingly generous. The CCPA Steering Committee has therefore decided to thank these major donors by recognising them in this “Hall of Fame” list. For more information about a donor just click on their link below.

 

The first entrants into our Hall of Fame are Mike and Gayle Koolen and their company, Essential Brands.

 

 

Watch this space for new entrants

The campaign to protect Wooli beach is very likely to be long and complex. Predicting the amount and purpose of donations which will be needed is not possible at this stage but we need to be prepared. If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation, suggest a money making idea (like the Koolens), make the campaign  a beneficiary in your will, or whatever else, please contact Bruce Bird or Pete Dunn.