Myall Park Croquet Club raises over $1200 in Biggest Morning Tea

Myall Park Croquet Club’s biggest morning tea raised over $1200 when members and guests gathered on Monday 4 May for the club’s 16th annual event. The raffle money will go to Hunter Medical Research Institute, extending a run that has reached $5600 over the past six years.

Ella Sansom on local prizes

Organiser Ella Sansom said the fundraising relied on support from town businesses. “So many local businesses have been wonderful, donating hundreds of dollars’ worth of prizes, which we raffled off in the lead-up to the day to raise over $1200 this year,” she said.

Thirty people attended the morning tea, including several guests from other clubs in town. The turnout kept the event in the club’s regular calendar and gave the raffle a clear audience for the donated prizes.

Hunter Medical Research Institute funding

Sansom said the money will be sent to Hunter Medical Research Institute for the fifth year, where she said it will go to helping people with a wide range of medical issues. That gives the club a direct funding path rather than spreading the proceeds across several causes.

The club’s event team has had three members on board for 16 years: Sharon Barwick, Fran Henderson and Kay Webb. Marlene Feltis joined more recently, adding another name to the group behind the annual fundraiser.

Six years of totals

Across the past six years, the Myall Park Croquet Club has raised a running total of $5600 for HMRI. This year’s result added another $1200-plus to that total and kept the fundraiser tied to the same medical research recipient.

For readers who support the club or the local businesses that donated prizes, the next step is straightforward: the money is now headed to Hunter Medical Research Institute, where the club says it will be used for medical research. The 16-year run shows the event has settled into a repeatable local fundraiser, not a one-off drive.