HYC Members pull together for community and family.

Grandparents Raising Grandkids started supporting grandparent carers over two decades ago.

Minprovise started supporting GRGWA in 2019, when Graham Townsend heard the story of HYC acquaintances and friends, Clive and Penny Rowden, who were not only running this amazing not-for-profit organisation then but also raising 4 great grandchildren, having already raised 3 grandchildren.

Their story was one of many, about selfless grandparents giving up their retirement dreams for the sake of their grandchildren. The Government offered this organisation no support, and so Graham stepped in with Minprovise, as forward-thinking partners.

The first donation was $5k to fund a Care and Pamper Day in 2019, for all the GRGWA Grandies who sacrificed so much.

Minprovise has continued to support GRGWA every Christmas, with staff donations of nonperishable food items and a mob of hams contributed by the company. This initiative creates continued awareness, exposure and greater community involvement for this small, yet vital not-for-profit organisation.

Clive and Penny are no longer on the committee of GRGWA but are Life Members and continue to support grandparents walking the same path as they did, and Minprovise remain committed in a sponsorship that began right here at HYC.

See GRGWA’s website at www.grandparentsrearinggrandchildren.org.au for more information or feel free to have a chat to Clive or Penny if you see them at the club (they’ve been members since 1991!)

With the demise of Balaton Jack and the purchase of a replacement boat Alibi, Paul played a key role in preparing Alibi for its new role at HYC.

Alibi was transported from Adelaide on a truck and Paul was there to greet it at Hillarys boat lifters, excited to see the new boat, it was soon unloaded and placed alongside the outgoing Balaton Jack, it was nice to see them side by side.

Paul was one of the first to climb aboard to look over the boat and to see how much work was going to be required to get it ready for the Club to use. As Paul was part of the Boat Committee he took the lead and got stuck into reassembling the boat as it was partially disassembled for transport. The boat was previously used as a professional fishing boat and still had many of those items aboard that needed to be consolidated and/or removed. Paul formed a working party within the Dive section to retrofit the existing dive seats, it quickly became apparent that the existing dive seats that were previously used on Balaton Jack could not be easily installed into the new boat, so new dive seats would have to be designed and manufactured.