Foundation: Grants Awarded

The main source of funding for the ATHOC Foundation is through the Australian Timeshare Industry Golf Open where over the past two years we have raised in excess of $130,000. Other funds are raised through the year through raffles and other initiatives.

The timeshare industry is very generous when it comes to charities. It is estimated that between the ATHOC membership approximately $500,000 per year is given to charity.

• $2,500 donation toward a vehicle for a family with 2 children with disability
• $2,000 + a weeks accomodation for an industry staff member who caught swine flu and has hadone leg amputated below the knee and one foot amputated
• $2,300 holiday for a family with a young daughter with Cystic Fibrosis
• $8,500 Leckey Horizon Stander for 16 year old girl with Cerebral Palsy
• $4,000 prothesis - running leg for 9 year old Tara
• $1,200 granted to industry staff member whose 11 year old daughter has severe type 1 diabetes
• $2,000 Coles card to help the parents of an 8 year old suffering Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• $8,500 Leckey Horizon Stander for 10 year old boy with Cerebellar Hypoplasia
• $1,800 for the donation of two weeks accommodation to be used for personal and auction to raise further fund for a young girl suffering leukaemia.
• $8,500 gym equipment for the Currumbin Special School
• $1,000 to aid an industry staff member when she received fire damage to her house
• $34,000 - Liberty Wheelchair Swing for the Cascade Gardens on the Gold Coast Australia
• $12,000 - Snozelan Room for the Mudgeeraba Special School - Picture
• $47,000 - Christel House International 
• 4 weeks accommodation given to Cottage by the Sea for use by families in need of a break and fundraising
• 7 Night Exchange Holiday to help raise funds for a cancer victim - donated by RCI
• 7 Nights accommodation at any Classic Holidays managed Resort to help raise funds for a cancer victim- donated by Classic Holidays
• $10,000 Surfers Paradise Surf Life Saving Club - to support maintenance of equipment and team uniforms
• $10,000 Paradise Kids - . in support of counselling children in dealing with grief.

 

2011 QLD FLOODS - ATHOC FOUNDATION AND VOLUNTEERS JOIN TOGETHER
Person on a mission Laura Younger co-ordinated a bus of industry staff to travel to Goodna and help with the clean up. Not knowing where we were or whose place we were actually going to made no difference to those keen to get their hands dirty helping people put their lives back together.

Working in conjunction with Southport Rotary our final destination became Brisbane Terrace in Goodna. Goodna resident Christine Tyler, who lost everything when floodwater inundated her home on January 12, said she found the support from the industry "overwhelming".

"It's made the tragey slightly insignificant when you look at how everyone is rallying together to help one another. It's just wonderful."

For Christine and partner Jack Meyerink, who have had their home of 13 years reduced to a "skeleton", it is heartbreaking.  "It's just devastating what has happened, but we are moving forward with the help of everyone; our family, friends and the community," she said.

"Last Saturday we had friends and family over helping us salvage what we could, which was hardly anything, but every day since then we have had so many people just walk off the street and offer to help us.

After 50 of us had worked on the house for the majority of the day, you could finally see the difference, but there is still a long way for Christine and her family to go before their nightmare is over and their lives are back to normal. Without insurance this could be some time.

The whole experience was really very rewarding. The amount of people in the area doing their bit to help. The moment we were off the bus, people pulled up wanting to feed us. This went on all day with people just driving around offering cold drinks to the volunteers. Everyone really had their place on the day.

Con-xi-ion coaches looked after us incredibly well with one of their biggest problems being to find a bus that they were prepared to let us all get back on at the end of the day. Even the bus driver got into it cooking us a fabulous sausage sizzle in the park opposite and the day was rounded off with some nice cold beer compliments of Fosters.

A huge thank you to all of you who came along. If you put a quarter of the amount of work in at the office than you did that day - you have very lucky employers. Many of you just didn't stop. Please give yourselves a pat on the back - you deserve it and make the industry proud.