With 165 trucks officially entered in the parade, this year’s Convoy for Kids was bigger than the last. It seemed much larger but the whole parade took 30 minutes to pass through the centre of Goulburn.
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As usual truck drivers came from near and far, many with their families to participate in what has become a picnic day and fair plus the parade of new and vintage trucks as well as many in between.
Convoy for Kids Goulburn is a charity organisation, which commenced in 1999. Its principal objective is to provide support for local children with cancer, terminal illness and permanent disabilities, by providing financial assistance to the families of such children with special needs.
The Goulburn Convoy for Kids is a registered charity, run by local volunteers, and all funds raised, stay and are distributed within the local community. The group's major source of fundraising is the annual street parade/convoy involving trucks and vehicles from the local "trucking" community. It also receives considerable support from people outside the local area.
For several years now the owners of the service station locally known as the Gateway, Budget Petrol Goulburn has supported the event not only by providing a marshalling point for the trucks, but also donating $5000 of fuel to the winning bidder for the lead truck. Owners Stefan and Arthur Petalotis said they are happy to help out for such a good local charity and give added incentive to boost the bidding.
This year that honour went to Jack Fife of A Fife & Co transport who as a result of the Mine Main coordinated fundraising took the prize with a winning bid of $11,000 but actually handed over $25,000 for the honour.
Convoy for Kids secretary Caleb Fisher said there was a very large number of volunteers, who pitched in this year to help with the on the ground work on Saturday.
“Local businesses have also been very supportive, donating to the raffle or auction and making monetary contributions,” Mr Fisher said “Other community organisations also contributed with food and refreshment stalls with the profits going to the Convoy for Kids.
A special thanks must go to the transport companies, owners and drivers who spent hours preparing their trucks to enter in this year’s convoy. The level of participation highlights, the importance locally of the transport industry.
“We are very grateful to everyone who helped with our major annual fundraiser and to the members of the public who came out to the recreation area and dug deep to help us to continue to support kids with serious health issues and their families.”
The final tally of money raised is not yet known.
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