World’s Greatest Pub Fest – Maryborough 2017

Posted on 2 May 201731 October 2023

Over this past weekend a number of our team made their way over to Maryborough to celebrate the PubFest. We were very lucky this year to be named as the annual charity of the festival and around $6000 was raised for our farmers.

After setting up the stand Charles, Tracy, Nibedita, and Dan set to work spreading the word and selling some of our Rural Aid and Buy a Bale merch. Nibedita and Tracy had a competition to sticker the most people, and Nibedita even put a sticker on a police officer in attendance.

The highlight of the event for Tracy was the costume competition which she was very generously invited to judge! Along with two other judges Tracy donned the cap and gown and set off an adventure into judicial process. One of her favourite group of contestants were the ones who gave her cupcakes, a biscuit, and a novelty cheque for $100 made out to Rural Aid! A big shout out to the League of Extra Amazing Pissheads for giving us all a laugh and really supporting our farmers.

The Maryborough PubFest is an annual event for the town, celebrating classic pubs, costumes, and the country. This years event was also an attempt to reclaim the Guinness World record for most people on a pub crawl from Kansas City. Maryborough originally set the record in 2005 with 1,198 participants, but are not the current holders. It was unfortunately unsuccessful but there is always hope for next year.

We would like to extend a big thank you to the Maryborough Pub Fest Committee for inviting us to be involved in this very special event. Thanks to the generosity of the pub-crawlers about $6000 have been raised for farmers.

Hay and Essential Support coming to Fire affected Farmers

Posted on 14 February 201731 October 2023

On one side of our country it floods, on another fire wreaks havoc.

Farmers and community members in Central NSW need our urgent assistance.

This photo taken by a farmer we’re working with shows the ferosity of the fire near Coolah in NSW.

In the last 24 hrs we’ve secured an initial 600 large round bales to go to the fire affected farmers and there is more if they need it.

Stock losses, fencing, homes, sheds and more have been destroyed and the next few weeks will see the need for assistance grow.

In addition to fodder we’ve had a call out for hampers and assistance with clothing from those who have lost everything.

Like we always try to do, we’re working smart on this one and supporting the local business community and reducing transport costs.

If you can help here’s how.

Buy a Bale of Hay = Donate $20, $50, whatever, it will help us cover the cost of hay and moving it

Buy a Hamper – Purchase a $50 or $100 hamper, once off or on a monthly basis.

Buy an Emergency Support Voucher. – $50, or $100 voucher , once off or monthly.

All these vouchers and hampers will be spent within the local business communities supporting them in their time of devastation as well. Supermarkets, chemists, motels, service stations and clothing stores will all benefit from your donation.

A massive Thank You to Steve and Mark at Transforce Logistics in Dubbo who have agreed to carry a lot of the hay for us at great rates which will make our support stretch even further.