AAA QUIZ 2019...SUCCESS and LOTS of THANK YOUS!!!
Thanks to you, our 2019 Quiz on Saturday, April 13th was a huge success!
Because of YOU, we raised $21, 223.55.
These funds will be used to support our many overseas projects, that includes our on-going pony clinics in Indonesia, donkey welfare programs in Tanzania plus assist with our new sanctuary in Sri Lanka.
The following very generous businesses, groups and people not only donated prizes and items for our night but also listed, are the volunteers and donors who continue to support and give their time to Animal Aid Abroad.
We cannot do what we do, without your support and generosity.
Perfect Travels Australia One Two Rubens Espresso
Two Feet and a Heartbeat Walking Tours The Island at Elizabeth Quay Pri Adilbert
Trawangan Dive [ Gili Islands] Grand Cinemas Myrna Klein
Bluewater Express Perth Mint Jackie Wigh
Lutwala Dive and Bungalows Perth Zoo Elmstock
Wizard Pharmacy [Booragoon] Debra Perkins Emma Green
Colin and Levi Young WASO Succi Mumma
Scent to Rescue Little Creatures Georges @ City Beach
Sylvia & Karan Bettis-Heijne Kirsten Jackson Janette Huston
What Knot Remedial Massage Millie Lannolo Nicholas Duncan
Shirley Patrick Sue Mirco Paul & Lynn Elkington
Jenny Grant Denise & David Schokman Elaine & Phil Goode & Elsie Daxon
Primal Alternative Chris Beggs Franklin Hynes & Cai Fenton
Houndstooth Studio Dawsons Garden World Colleen McKenney
Rockingham Wild Encounters Hair at the Zoo Martin Hayes
Jana Wood Sasha Poli Lynette MacQueen
Catherine Clark Dowden Lynne Bowes Friends of Perth Animals [FOTA]
Cat Haven Barb Hacker Gypsy Wulff
Control Print Annalice Framing Erika Morgan
Charlotte Fehr Bev Cooper Dominic Webb Handy Truck
Dianne Lawrence Wendy Jacobs Joe Petrovich
Ann Jones Michele Sharp Alicia Davies
Evette Mirco Natalie Palleros Saphron Stapleton
Peter Grant Tash & Sophie Halbert Jaime Klein
Cathie O’Neil Joanna Ferris
Some special mentions from our night need to be made because without these people we couldn’t have done it.
Sylvia & Karan Bettis-Heijne who worked hard behind the scenes with me to put on this event including our small team of volunteers who helped in the lead up - Jenny Grant, Kirsten Jackson, Denise Schokman, Colleen McKenney, Myrna Klein and Jana Wood.
Thanks to our core volunteer team on the night who did such an amazing job- Chris Beggs our Emcee, Jaime Klein on PowerPoints and video, our very efficient markers- Paul Elkington, Cathie O’Neil and our Quiz master, who also wrote our questions and table games – Karan Bettis-Heijne [ Karan was also the organiser of our very fun, donut eating game!!] Special thanks to Nicholas Duncan from Save the Rhinos who did a brilliant job as our auctioneer.
Thanks to sisters, Millie Iannolo, Sue Mirco & Evette Mirco on tea and coffee and the wonderful cakes and other bits they put together [ the table looked amazing] including Erika Dawson who supplied the wonderful biscuits from Primal Alternative.
We can never do without our payment table volunteers- Dianne Lawrence & Wendy Jacobs who did a fabulous job.
A special thank you to the very generous Lynda Holgate from Scent to Rescue who hit the $100,000 milestone at our Quiz event [ All this money has been 100% donated to animal charities]. Lynda donates all her money and time to making beautiful scented candles and this is the second year in a row Lynda has come along to help us.
To our engine room volunteers who assist at all Animal Aid Abroad events and who did an outstanding job on the raffle ticket selling and jelly bean jar - Denise Schokman, Myrna Klein, Colleen McKenney, Kirsten Jackson, Jana Wood, and Janette Huston. Also, special thanks to Jenny Grant who juggled her role perfectly between the Silent Auction and Merchandise table. Thanks to new-recruit, Alicia Davies who helped throughout the day and night with many jobs including photos with Martin Hayes taking a few too and to our runner/go-to-person on the night doing a bit of everything, Sylvia Bettis-Heijne.
Many thanks also to those people who came earlier in the day to help set up - Paul Elkington, Jaime Klein, Chris Beggs, Martin Hayes, Elaine and Phil Goode, Barbara Hacker, Emma Green, Saphron Stapleton, Kirsten Jackson, Jenny Grant, Alicia Davies, Sylvia Bettis-Heijne, Franklin Hynes, Colleen McKenney, Natalie Palleros, Dianne Lawrence, Cai Fenton, Joe Petrovich, Dom Webb, Peter Grant, Tash and Sophie Halbert. We did it in record time with hours to spare!! Many of these people also stayed on to help pack up at the end of the night…. A very long day and night but we made it with $21, 223.55 for our animals!!