Early tally so far is about $2000 (for reference last year was $1600) but there is still some money to come in for preordered items, plus we have a chocolate run being finished, and we have 2 more bbq’s, so expect that number to go up.

Last night i pulled three large boxes out of my car and tallied things up.

blankets -2
scarves - 8
jumper/jackets - 7
gloves - 7
beanies - 7
other clothes - 5

rice - 2
tuna/salmon - 3
meal in a can - 5
tinned veg - 5
tinned fruit - 6
soup - 20
BB and spaghetti - 26
other - 6

So together we collected 73 items of food and 36 items of clothing/blankets for the appeal