Bear Cottage Fund Raiser - By Gabrella Blewitt
Gaby Blewitt (age 8) designed a community project to help people this Christmas as part of a unique leadership program at Spirit Taekwondo.
Spirit Taekwondo is a martial art school based in Brookvale headed by instructors Jason Smith & Anne Marie Smith. The leadership program helps teach young students the importance of leadership, mentoring and helping in our community.
On Sunday 13th December the Spirit Taekwondo centre doors opened for Gaby to host a gingerbread house making extravaganza for her friends and family to help raise some much needed funds for Bear Cottage, Manly.
Over 50 families joined the event to make 40 beautiful gingerbread houses, Gaby also sold hundreds of raffle tickets, sausage sizzles & fun games to reach her goal for this worthy cause.
As a result of all of Gaby's hard work and all the kind contributions from local business Gaby and her team managed to raise $1,526 for the Bear Cottage.
Outstanding work Gaby.
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Leadership Project Gallery:
The following are just a few of the example of outstanding leadership exercises displayed and conducted by Spirit Taekwondo's leadership members.
Kid's OT : Kick-A-Thon
The Kick 'a'Thon is an event created by Kid's OT in Frenches Forest and their Martial Methods team who assist kids with a broad arrey of learning and developmental dificulties through a vast arrey of disciplines and therapies.
Members of the Spirit Taekwondo leadership team assisted the Kid's OT teams and their students in the raising of fund for the Sydney children's hospital and their Kids with Cancer support programs.
Cromer community centre
Spirit Taekwondo leadership students took part in the refacing of the Cromer community center in a Warringah council project coordinated by Artist Fiona Verity.
The Spirit leaders were happy to create some creative mosiacs for the mureal made from a mixture of natural matrials and broken tiles which were kindly donated from tiling shops, and reflects Fionas passion for birds and local wildlife.
Following the creation of the indervidual mosiacs a tiler helped fix them to the wall and the leaders and community were invited to the official opening and launch of the artwork.
NSW Fire Services and Red Cross
Spirit Leaders assisted in the collection of emergency supplies for those effected by Blue Mountains bush fires, as well as the raising of funds for the NSW Fire services and Red Cross to assist in the rescue care of those most effected .
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