RGS connections:

School friends band together for community cause

“Especially being borders, we all knew each other really well, so it was easy to get along and get jobs done.”

They share a common bond of having been boarders at The Rockhampton Grammar School. These past students are now combining their friendships and community passion to help others. The result - the Twin Hills at Twelve New Year’s Eve event!

RGS past student Angela Fordyce (RGS 2016) provides an insight into organising the event:

“In regards to the event, there was no New Year’s Eve event in CQ for people to attend.

I put the idea out to a few people and everyone was super keen and we formed a new committee for the event. Since we all live remotely, we chatted via a group message to organise everything.

Everyone was delegated a job to make it easier.

At times it was very stressful, ensuring everything had been done and was ready to go, and it was also hard to find vendors for specific areas such as a band and security.

But it was also exciting when it all started to come together and we put our tickets on sale. Our early bird tickets sold in a record four minutes and the rest of the 500 tickets sold out that day.

Once we knew how excited the community around us was to come to the event, we were over the moon.

Setting up for the event was the first time we all got together as a group, and it took us two days to fully set up at Twin Hills.

We raised around $41,000 which is going to the CQ Rescue Helicopter, a local boy who was hurt in a car accident, the Twin Hills Youth Committee and the help a mate programme, “Are you bogged mate? ”

All of the RGS students involved in organising this event were past borders and we all attended school around the same time.

Especially being borders, we all knew each other really well, so it was easy to get along and get jobs done.

I feel really grateful to have gone to RGS because it has given me so many connections outside of school and life long friends.”

RGS past student on the event committee were:

Angela Fordyce (RGS 2016) Luke Plath (RGS 2014),

Olivia Marks (RGS 2017) Natalie Marks (RGS 2020),

Tom Cobb (RGS, Year 11 2018) Josie Cobb (RGS, Year 9 2018),

Lauren Neilson (RGS 2019) Riley Moller (RGS 2019), Will Callanan (RGS 2017) Matilda Patterson (RGS 2016)

Amelia Marks (RGS 2022)

Twin Hills at Twelve 31 December 2022