The team behind the hugely successful Pink Ribbon Charity Golf Day in Weipa have been invited to the Jane McGrath High Tea in Sydney in January on the back of the event’s stunning fundraising effort. Photo: Cape York Weekly.
The success of a local fundraiser has organisers packing their bags to attend one of the biggest high teas in the country in Sydney next month.
Weipa’s Melanie Turner, Lauren Haimes, James Hunter and Rhiannon Bell have been invited to the 2025 Jane McGrath High Tea after the Pink Ribbon Charity Golf Day at Carpentaria Golf Club exceeded all expectations and raised more than $10,000 for breast cancer awareness.
The annual high tea will be held on 5 January, on day three of the Pink Test between Australia and India, and honours Jane McGrath, the late wife of Australian cricketing star Glenn McGrath and co-founder of the McGrath Foundation.
Ms Turner said the club was put into a raffle to win tickets to the event after golfers raised $10,536 teeing off in Weipa in October, and praised competitors and the community for their generosity in digging deep for a good cause.
“We all felt very privileged, honoured and humbled to be invited to such an important event that raises awareness and funding for such a great cause,” she said.
“Weipa is an amazing community and very generous; we aim to look after each other and give where and what we can time after time, no matter what the cause.”
The quartet will use the trip to Sydney not only to raise awareness of the Pink Ribbon Charity Golf Day on the national stage, but also to plan a bigger and better event when it returns to the Weipa greens and fairways in 2025.
“The planning will already start on the way down to Sydney on the flight,” Ms Turner said.
“We had so many participants that said at the end of the golf day this year that they wanted to be involved in 2025, and they had great ideas to share as well.”
The Pink Ribbon Charity Golf Day will be back at Carpentaria Golf Club bigger and better than ever in 2025. Photo: Cape York Weekly.
