In The Community
The team at Hamton prides itself on making a regular contribution to the communities within which it operates. Some recent examples include:
2008
FareShare - rescuing food. fighting hunger.
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In August 2008, Hamton staff spent the day at the FareShare kitchen in Abbotsford. The team spent the day preparing 1200 meals for distribution to disadvantaged people, homeless shelters and various charity organisations across Victoria. Hamton have since made a committment to help in the FareShare kitchen one afternoon every month. Since 2001, FareShare have given away healthy, nutritious meals to the hungry and the homeless in Victoria, using food donated by businesses. FareShare 'rescue' food, meaning food that would otherwise be wasted and end up in landfill. The food is still perfectly edible, but it could be fruit and vegetables that don't look perfect, meat that has been ground too fine by a butcher, high fibre bread that hasn't been sold on the day it is baked. Click here to learn more about FareShare or find out how you can help this organisation. |
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June - Run Melbourne
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7 Hamton team members took part in the 2008 Run Melbourne to contribute to the fundraising drive by the Fitzgerald Foundation. The Fitzgerald Foundation acknowledges the significant incidence of brain cancer, the considerable lack of general funding in this area and a need to create a greater support network for young sufferers. |
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April - Oxfam Trailwalker 2008
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100km in 32 hours. Hamton entered 2 teams this year and collectively raised just over $10,000. Hamton generated the most sponsorship out of those teams that were entered in the Property and Construction field. |
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March - Run for the Kids
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8 Hamton team members entered this year’s Run for the Kids in an effort to raise funds as part of the Good Friday Appeal for the Royal Children’s Hospital. |
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31st January - Paul Hameister's Mt Aconcagua Trek
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Paul Hameister raised $15,750 to buy new breathing monitors for the Royal Children’s Hospital Neonatal Unit by trekking to the summit of Mt Aconcagua on the 31st January 2008. |
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2007
Oxfam Trailwalker 2007
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With not nearly enough training (and a couple of badly timed bugs – Sarah got the flu and Paul lost 5kg in the two weeks before the event with gastro), the Hamton team (Paul Hameister, Chris Szworak, Matt Malseed and Sarah Halkyard) armed with our secret weapon Sally Irons and Tim Hubbard as support crew, stood at the starting gate of the 2007 Oxfam Trailwalker. |
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Other events and causes Hamton supported in 2007:
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