RED Bike Adventures has launched their Mega Raffle! This year the funds raised are going towards support for local Mental Health services and Suicide Prevention programs in our region.
The Not for Profit organisation has been able to assist with counselling and life coaching sessions at the Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre (HBNC) for the past four years.
Last year the raffle raised $8,000 to support their work and this year’s raffle is aiming to exceed this with 38 prizes available to win.
“This year we are targeting to raise more than last year as our community need the support more than ever before,” said Danielle Mares from Red Bike.
“There is over $6,800 worth of prizes donated which gives us an enormous opportunity to reach our target which goes directly to local mental health programs and education including the Hervey Bay Neighbourhood Centre & Fraser Coast Life Counselling and Life Coaching, Fraser Coast UNISC & other community programs.”
Over 20 local businesses contributed prizes to this year’s Mega Raffle which gets bigger each year.
Red Bike Adventures strives to connect the disconnected with counselling, education and support programs. The organisation are advocates for mental health, and they aim to unite the local community to support mental health.
Ms Mares said HBNC’s counselling and life coaching sessions were the chosen recipients due to their fantastic services to the community.
“People can get support for mental health and/or physical disability, trauma, fears, depression, behaviour, relationships, low motivation, coping strategies, self-worth; finding a way forward.”
Established in 2020, by a group of mates who decided to finally bring their 15+year-old plan to ride a postie bike from one end of K’Gari to another into reality, the signature Red Bike Charity Ride on K’Gari attracted twenty-five bikes and upwards of fifty overall participants.
Their K’Gari 2023 biking adventure recently completed their annual trip from the island raising over $11,000 and again gaining wonderful stories and conversations.
For more information visit www.redbike.org.au
