By Brendan Rees
A group of senior citizens have been busy building and selling toys for the past year to help children fight cancer.
Members of Lifestyle Village at Casey Fields in Cranbourne raised $4,000 through the sale of their toys at craft markets in Mornington and Red Hill
All money raised was donated to Monash Hospital children’s cancer centre with the total figure matched dollar for dollar by the Lifestyle Community Foundation.
The lifestyle woodworking group delivered the donation to the centre Thursday 24 January, where they were also given a tour.
Woodworker team member Kevin Sparrow said last year proved challenging as they were not able to receive enough recycled wood to keep up with the toy making as well as the group expanding from four to 10 people
“The answer was across the road from the village with a company called Joey,” he said. “Joey makes wall cavity units and they provided us with the off-cuts they couldn’t use.”
“This was a great opportunity for the woodworking group and enabled us to keep up the toy making.”
Mr Sparrow said their gathering at Monash Hospital was “very humbling” and “made the group feel that the work made throughout the year were well worth the effort.”
“The group would like to thank Joey, Craft Markets Australia and Lifestyle Foundation for the support throughout the year.”
