Ainslie Football Club and the Home Loan Centre supporting the local community
Extracted from the Round 13 AFL Canberra Record
The Ainslie Football Club and The Home Loan Centre conducted a charity golf day followed by a celebrity dinner and charity auction on 3rd April 2008. At the charity auction and dinner, held at the Ainslie Football and Social Club, AFL legends Robert Walls and Stan Alves entertained the 200 assembled guests, as the events key-note speakers.
The primary objective of the day, was to raise funds for Canberra based charities. Having reconciled receipts from the event, Managing Director of The Home Loan Centre, John de la Torre, today announced that the major recipients would be the Canberra Hospital who would receive a donation of $20,000 and the RSPCA Canberra who would receive $5,000.
The Home Loan Centre is proud to be the major sponsor of the Ainslie Football Club and it has been a great delight to work with Ainslie in an effort to raise these funds. It is our combined intention that this will be come an annual event and that we will be able to build on what has been a tremendous first off effort in 2008.
Furthermore, the Ainslie Football Club has partnered with community based organisation Camp Quality for season 2008. Camp Quality retains all of the receipts collected from Ainslie’s home games.
Ainslie President Mr. Ian Muir said “we are extremely happy and proud to work collectively with our major sponsor The Home Loan Centre to support and assist The Canberra Hospital, RSPCA and Camp Quality”.
Furthermore, de la Torre and Muir agreed that the proceeds raised sat in accordance with The Home Loan Centre and the Ainslie Football Club’s commitment towards being good corporate citizens.
Last Modified on 08/07/2008 21:30