It was lovely to see quilts made by Bangalow Quilters featured in the photo of local View Club members.
Just the week before Bangalow Quilters celebrated its 35th anniversary with 60 quilters from other Northern Rivers quilting groups from Murwillumbah to Yamba. We took this opportunity to present the results of recent fundraising activities: $1,000 to the Mullumbimby Neighbourhood Centre for ongoing flood relief works and $2,000 to the Cancer Council. This takes the total the group has raised for the Cancer Council to $15,000 since we started holding an annual Biggest Morning Tea.
A banner was also presented to the Mullumbimby Hospital Auxiliary and quilts to Quilts4Kids. Each year the group gives numerous quilts to the community and previously they have gone to Quikts4Kids, Feros Aged Care, Byron Central Hospital for the haematology and mental health units and many other local organisations.
In 2019 we made quilts for people affected by bushfires both locally and interstate, and in 2022 our focus was on flood recovery. Joining with Brunswick Valley Needlework Group we gave up to 100 quilts to people in the Northern Rivers who were flood-affected, hoping that the quilts brought warmth and comfort when our community was so traumatised.
We meet on the second and fourth Thursday morning each month at the Anglican Church Hall in Bangalow and visitors are always welcome. Our members travel from Pottsville, Mullumbimby, Ballina as well as Bangalow but some members live as far away as the Gold Coast, Armidale and Sydney.
We are like many other small community groups who just quietly get on with helping our community in whatever way we can.
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