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Rising costs are having a serious impact on our daily operations. It is especially challenging for us, as a non-profit organisation, because we are reluctant to pass these costs on to schools or to the families of the visiting students in the form of higher fees. It is essential that our message is delivered at an affordable price to avoid jeopardising school visits. Our fees must not become prohibitive.
It has been many years since Gould League, once under the umbrella of the Victorian Department of Education, has received steady federal or state government funds. As a result, we rely on income generated by the programs we deliver to schools, sparse grants, corporate and individual memberships, donations and bequests.
We need your help to ensure our economic sustainability so that our message of environmental responsibility and sustainable living can be taught to another generation of school children. Please consider a personal or corporate donation, a corporate sponsorship or a bequest as indicated below.
We have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) and Tax Concession Charity status and all donations over $2 are fully tax deductible
DONATIONS
Donations can help in many ways by, for example:
• funding the professional development of teachers,
• purchasing or replacing equipment for our school programs,
• paying staff to develop new incursion/excursion programs to meet curriculum changes, and
• providing for staff uniforms.
If you have specific requests as to how you wish your donations to be spent, then please let us know.
Individual Donations
Just select from one of the options below or enter another value.
Corporate Donations
Please choose select from one of the options below, enter another value or, for larger amounts, contact our General Manager, Anne-Maree McInerney on 03 9585 7860/0429 193 134 or email at [email protected]
Corporate Sponsorship
There are a number of ways that Corporate support can help us provide more and better environmental education for school children. These include:
• Subsidising bus transport so that children from disadvantaged schools and communities in the Greater Melbourne area can still access Gould League programs. Such support could be general or designed specifically for transport to and from our programs at Toolangi State Forest, located near Healesville or Marine programs at Ricketts Point at Beaumaris.
• Support the redevelopment of our Sustainability Education Centre at Cheltenham so we have a secure long term facility with peppercorn rent for the next 20 years. We are being provided 4 new demountable buildings; however, we need funds to relocate, integrate an outdoor classroom and gardens, pathways, new signage and murals, outdoor furniture and a play ground as well as new storage facilities for outdoor tools and program equipment.
If you would like to discuss these or other opportunities for Corporate Sponsorship, please call our General Manager Anne-Maree McInerney on 03 9585 7860/0429 193 134 or email her at [email protected]
Bequest
Bequests from supporter’s wills provide an invaluable form of support to allow us to provide many services that would otherwise not have been possible. Ask your legal advisor about how to make a charitable bequest to Gould League.
Introduction
If you include a bequest in your will to Gould League, you will ensure that the work that the League undertakes to provide environmental education of school children will extend into the future and beyond your lifetime.
In the following section, we provide some suggestions for the wording of your will to incorporate a bequest to the Gould League. You may wish to consult with your solicitor, accountant or financial advisor about aspects of this because there may be the possibility of tax advantages by gifting specified assets to the Gould league in your will.
There are a number of different ways to provide a bequest in your will. The main choice is whether to provide a fixed amount, a proportional amount or the residue after distributing the rest of the estate to family and others. Another choice is whether to provide cash or assets such as shares in publicly listed companies. These are important considerations which you should discuss with your solicitor or financial advisor.
Suggested wording for a bequest
The following section can be incorporated into your will at the appropriate location.
I give to Gould League (ABN 64 107 890 433) of 77 Argus St, Cheltenham, VIC 3192 for its general purposes:
a) The sum of $ (amount);
b) Percentage % of my estate;
c) The residue of my estate;
d) XXX asset e.g. Westpac shares, that I own at the date of my death.
I declare the receipt from Gould League will be sufficient discharge for my executors and they are not required to see to the application of the gift.
I direct that if Gould League no longer exists, my Executors are to give this gift to the successor organisation of Gould League and if this also does not exist, then to the organisation or organisations in Australia which most closely resemble(s) the purposes and goals of Gould League as at the date of this Will, and this selection is at the complete discretion of my executors.
If you or your financial advisor would like to make a bequest please call our General Manager Anne-Maree on 03 9585 7860 / 0429 193 134 or email her at [email protected]