Quota Pacific Coast celebrates a decade of doing good Coffs Coast Coffs Coast News by News Of The Area - Modern Media - December 5, 2022 Celebrating Quota Pacific Coast group’s tenth birthday with lunch at Latitude 30 were members Kerry Meagher, Ruth Allan, Marg Cummings, Deb Murtha, Pauline Cahill, Di Egan, Pauline Keays and founder, Jane Glover OAM. TEN years of good works with rarely a hoo-haa to celebrate their achievements, the seven women members of Quota Pacific Coast marked their tenth anniversary on Monday 28 November with a private lunch at Latitude 30 at The Jetty, with founder Jane Grover OAM. Having moved from Coffs to Newcastle, Jane is still a ‘member at large’ and observer of the group’s good works and is keenly blowing their trumpet as they celebrate a decade of donating to charitable causes carried out quietly behind the scenes, with all monies raised used for local causes. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone us – (02) 4981 8882. Email us – media@newsofthearea.com.au “These seven women are a force to be reckoned with,” Jane told News Of The Area. “I’m really proud of them.” For many of the ten years serving the Coffs community, Quota members have made up and donated 40 Christmas hampers to Uniting Burnside families in need each year. They also provide the Jane Glover Scholarship, which goes towards helping two Year 6 primary school children at Tyalla Public School in Coffs as they transition to Year 7 at the adjacent Orara High School. The group has also funded school sports uniforms for ten refugee children each year, provide financial assistance to an annual camp for deaf children, along with numerous small charitable works. To generate an income to cover the costs of the following year’s filled hampers, every Christmas the members set up a stall outside Kmart in Coffs Central laden with gift wrapping paper, ribbons and tape and set about wrapping all and any presents brought to their stall by the shoppers. “Our Christmas wrapping service is really popular,” Quota member Di Egan told NOTA. “We just enjoy it and have fun seeing all the people year after year. “We charge a gold coin donation, but some people are really generous and donate a little extra to go towards our funds. “It’s a really great way for us to raise money. Pop along and have your presents wrapped between Sunday 11 December and Saturday 24 December, from 10am until 4pm. “We’re only a small group but gee-whizz those women are great,” said Di. “We also do things without raising money like the Shearwater Lodge dinners for cancer patients, that’s just one of our community services. “Wherever we can help in some way we will be there,” she said. By Andrea FERRARI Tenth Birthday parties have to have a cake – here’s to a decade of doing good with Quota Pacific Coast.
