We especially thank President Tony Bromley Men's Bowling Club, Drew McDarmont Chairman and Directors of the Advisory Board, General Manager Steve Hind and Members of our Joint Partner West Epping Panthers Bowling Club for their generosity in providing us with the use of their facilities, greens etc to hold another most successful Charity Day.

Over the past 10 years the N.S.W. MASTER BUILDERS BOWLS CLUB has raised over $ 43,500.00 for The Children's Hospital at Westmead Oncology Department.

We acknowledge the most generous Donations and Raffle Prizes given by various companies, clubs and bowlers on this occasion. A special thank you to Lodge Epping / masoniCare for their most generous donation.

A large attendance of 117 Bowlers and Guests were welcomed by Fred Needham President of the Master Builders Bowls Club.

Guests included:
Gordon Leggett President MBA of NSW
Steven Swan Manager Marketing & Communications MBA of NSW Graham Mc Guiggan Manager Membership MBA of NSW
Michael Schwarcz Zone 10 Councillor R.N.S.W.B.A.
Gary Mc Andrew Zone 10 President,
Hon Phillip Ruddock MP Patron of W.E.P.B.C. Member for Berowra Andrew Tink
Paul Foster Administrator masoniCare
Anne McFadden Oncology Account Manager
Audrey Moir Madam President West Epping Panthers Women's B.C. Lisa Cooper Manager & Gary Scott Priceline Chemists Carlingford Court
Visiting ClubS and Groups who very much enjoyed a pleasant afternoon of bowls.

Gordon Leggett, President of Master Builders Association of New South Wales expressed his appreciation, and endorsed both the MBA and the Bowls Club support to The Children's Hospital. He congratulated the MBA Bowls Club and West Epping Panthers for their great effort in raising a record amount of money from an afternoon of bowls for this very important Charity within the Community.

This is an annual event – if you would like to get involved, please contact Fundraising Coordinator, Doug Bennetts on (02) 9858-2553 or doug.bennetts@bigpond.com

The entire project, overseen by local Master Builder members, will be completed completely by donation from the local building industry including work conducted by apprentices from the local Tafe. The Murray Division will own the re-locatable home.

Dale Welch is a 20 year old Howlong resident who suffers from cerebral palsy, epilepsy and has a heart condition.

Dale’s mother Sharon is hoping to give Dale a level of independence he desires and her wish was to convert the home garage into a self contained living quarters for Dale. With that aim in mind Sharon has approached the Murray Division; Master Builders Association NSW for assistance.

Our local committee has given this matter consideration and we have decided to assist Dale in achieving supervised independence that will no doubt improve his quality of life and hopefully bring him some joy as well.

However, having inspected the garage we have come to the conclusion that no amount of work could make it fit for occupation and we have now decided to build a self contained relocatable unit for Dale. Our aim is to construct this unit at zero cost by way of having all materials, services and labour donated.

On completion, this unit will remain the property of the Master Builders Association NSW with unlimited use granted to Dale. If Dale for any reason no longer requires or wishes to use the unit we will remove the unit and relocate it for the use of another deserving person.

For further information please contact:

Paul Maginnity, Magibuild Building Contractors	Ph. (02) 6025 0688
Graham Searle, Southern Vale Homes	Ph. (02) 6051 5000
Scott James, Scott James Pty Ltd	Ph. 0409 455 340
Phil Palhares, Q1 Constructions	Ph. (02) 6056 5826
Graeme Chugg/Neil Sawyer, Modem Constructions	Ph. (02) 6023 1611
Dale Paddle, Cavalier Homes	Ph. 0418 698 176
Greg Lingham, Altered Dimensions	Ph. 0418 626 935
Jason Smith, Hansen Yuncken	Ph. 0411 752 438

The Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria on Saturday 7 February 2009 resulted in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire. 173 people died as a result of the fires and 414 were injured.

Master Builders VIC has assisted with the reconstruction and is working to connect builders with families / community leaders who need help with the rebuild.

Master Builders NSW donated $10,000 directly to the bushfire victims through the Australian Red Cross.