Sunshine Coast Community Hospice

Finally we can finally congratulate ourselves on achieving the move to our new premises at 855 Eumundi - Noosa Road, Doonan.

It was an enormous job, and thank you to each and every one of you who helped. To see the new Katie Rose Cottage now open and caring for the termi-nally ill is truly awe-inspiring, and to see the Guests being cared for by our in-credibly compassionate R.N.'s is something to warm your heart, our Guests really appreciate their loving care.

All our extraordinary Volunteers do the most amazing things. I have personal-ly been able to see them performing their many duties, from those who do housekeeping duties, helping care for our Guests, Office Duties, working to create income in our Op Shops, Fundraising and many more duties, you tackle every task with great enthusiasm.

I have left the gardeners to last. What a fantastic job they have done and are continuing to do to make the Gardens so spec-tacular. In 6 months’ time they will look even better, and I would invite everyone to come and enjoy them. In twelve months’ time not only will we be caring for the terminally ill, but also winning garden competitions. I know that our Guests really appreciate looking at the beautiful gardens.

I must also acknowledge those extremely generous people in our Community who continually give to K.R.C. either with their expertise/work or by purchasing much needed items.

Terry Clarke-Burrows is now back at the helm of Katie Rose Cottage, and the clinical side is now oper-ating perfectly. Terry and her Husband Alan are now living on site so not only do we have Terry on hand 24 hours a day but as well a wonderful handyman and security.

In these very difficult financial time we have to work harder at trying to secure those precious $$$$'s. Any help with fundraising etc., would be greatly appreciated.

Our thanks to Peter and Doreen Briggs, for opening their beauti-ful garden at Camellia House, to raise funds for the Katie Rose Cottage.

The weekend was a huge success and raised over $10.000 for the Cottage to continue in its work.

Thanks also to Escape Travel, Who give a percentage to the hospice from bookings made by "supporters of the hospice". Just last month we donated $1200 through this scheme.

An absolutely beautiful day, weather wise, was experi-enced at the Barbecue for The Sunshine Coast Com-munity Hospice Volunteers.

Approximately 100 plus people were present, which was wonderful considering the short notice.

If you missed out on this day, visit our website, look for "New Katie Rose Cottage" under Services to see how the day went & what our new facility looks like, Great!.

Following the big move into our new location along Eumundi-Noosa Road the Sunshine Coasts Community Hospice, Katie Rose Cottage, continues to serve the community with exemplary end of life care at no personal cost to the guests.

With key personal in place, registered nurses, a full support team, trained volunteers on duty 24/7 and direction towards a positive and productive future, Katie Rose Cottage is regularly accepting guests who, for some reason cannot complete their life’s journey at home.

Apart from a small amount of scripting from the Government this Charity relies solely on the goodness of the Community through fund raising events and three retail outlets in Tewantin, Mapleton and Aerodrome Road Maroochydore, selling pre-loved clothing, offering the people of the Sunshine Coast a new and exciting range of apparel and goods. An office housing volunteer administration staff has also been set up within the complex to centralize the running of the Charity in Maroochydore.

To this end the Sunshine Coast Community Hospice URGENTLY requires volunteers, MEN & WOMEN up and down the coast to help in the following areas:-

• To maintain fully staffed retail shops in Tewantin, Maroochydore and Mapleton
• To assist in a supportive capacity to the Registered Staff at Katie Rose Cottage
• To offer expertise in an administrative role and IT

All training where required will be given at no cost to the volunteer – it’s an extremely worthwhile community charity – serv-ing the people of the Sunshine Coast and all we need is your time, so come and join in the fun.

For retail shop volunteering please phone: Pam Holmes at Tewantin 5440 5919 Sally Birch at Maroochydore 5479 0881 Maureen McFerran at Mapleton 5478 6155
For support staff at Katie Rose Cottage phone: 5471 1793 For fundraising and other areas contact Administration: 5479 0881

Our charity could not run without our dedicated volunteers. They work in all sorts of areas to assist with caring for our guests one way or another. One of our volunteers does something a little different. For some time now, Caroline McNaughton has been making jams and selling them to raise money for the Charity. Firstly she delivered them to the shop in Noosaville, now they go to Tewantin. She has made up baskets of jams and preserves for raffles. Not so long ago, she sat at the Noosa Tewantin Marina for four days, in the cold at times, selling her wares. On this occasion she raised $1280. What an effort. Caroline has raised about $2500 dollars over this time. Our congratulations to Caroline and our sincere thanks for her ongoing efforts. I understand that she is pretty clever at sourcing her product, her fruit; she trades her jams for more fruit.

Another one of our volunteers Ruth Gibbins gets to the Fisherman’s Road Markets on a Sunday morning, where she and her friend Rosemary, shake their tins and collect donations from the market patrons. Ruth has over about 3 years, collected $5000 for the charity. Summer or winter, Ruth and Rosemary are out there, spreading the word of our work and collecting.

Katie Rose Op Shop at The Atrium Centre in Tewantin held a fashion parade on Wed. 22nd June to show off their shop's range of winter fashions. 'Team Tewantin' were able to coerce their fellow shop volunteers and even the odd husband, to do some 'modeling' in all shapes and sizes to highlight the diversity of our range.

The show was held in the Atrium Arcade where the shop is located near Chapters Cafe. It was held in a light hearted spirit which was greatly appreciated by the 'street audience',

Fundraising continues to be busy with lots of events happening past, present and future. By the time this newsletter comes out we will have had a fun day at the Gympie Races. I must thank Deb Forbes for the wonderful organization of this event. There is huge amount of work to be done towards the Races and she has done this single handedly, not easy for sure.

July 2nd and 3rd saw the Charity providing the refreshments for the Camellia House Open Garden. Doreen and Peter Briggs opened their beautiful garden to the public. This garden has almost 700 Camellias as well as some exotic fruit trees and other fine specimens of plants and trees. It was well worth the visit. Delicious refreshments were provided by our wonderful volunteers. July 8th -10th we attended the Queensland Garden Expo in Nam-bour where we were able to promote Katie Rose Cottage and run a raffle as well.
These three events raised several thousand dollars for our Charity.

Various events have been run in the community by the community in recent months as well. We are so appreciative of these organizations for supporting Katie Rose Cottage and we thank them so much. It is our intention to list all significant donations on our website as soon as we can, so that you, our SCCH family and our supporters can see the support that we receive from the community.

In order to keep up with current events and items of news re fundraising, please do look at our website, we do try and keep this site up to date. It is a very informative site and if you go to www.sunshinehospice.org.au you will be able to follow what is going on. I would like to thank all the volunteers who have come out to help with these events, without you support, we would not be able to carry them out. Bev Barton, Chair of Fundraising.

Having lived my life in Queensland and holidaying as a child on the Sun-shine Coast, I decided to move to the Sunshine Coast eight years ago. Having seen the growth of the re-gion over this time I can see the need for the Sunshine Coast Com-munity Hospice’s facility of the Katie Rose Cottage for the terminally ill.

As Executive Officer I see my role as a coordinator of the various facets of our organisation to move forward as united group with a common goal and realising that “Every Moment Matters” for the terminally ill. I hold a Bachelor of Business in Human Resource Management & Marketing and I am currently studying for my Masters of Professional Accounting.

I have previously held senior management roles within small to medium enterprises and have been responsible for revenues up to $6million.

Kureelpa Colour Open Day 02 October - Plant sales, home pro-duce, raffles and stalls. All day deli-cious home-cooked refreshments, Sausage Sizzle kindly provided by the Palmwoods/Woombye Lions. All proceeds to Katie Rose Cottage.




The Mousetrap 11 October - Agatha Christie classic murder mystery presented at the Buderim Memorial Hall, A great night to be had by all. Tickets ph:0400 606 300




Noosa Summer Charity Ball 05 November - Roaring 20’s, A lav-ish evening of live entertainment and dancing, raffles, auctions, deli-cious food and fabulous fun…