By Ian Rice, President of Gully Market

The Gully Market, operating from the Upper Gully station carpark is pleased to announce the recipients of our donations since the end of August 2024.

Firstly, to celebrate Fathers Day and to help launch prostate cancer awareness month, the Gully Market donated $3000 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.

This donation is to be dedicated to the specialist prostate cancer nurses program. Anyone who has had prostate cancer, and has had a nurse assigned as a contact, will know how invaluable they are. I know first hand. At Box Hill hospital they have Melissa and Amelia. Everyone knows someone with prostate cancer. One in five men have it by age 85.

Secondly, on 26 October, we donated $2,500 to Upper Ferntree Gully CFA. This money will go towards re-training all their volunteers on first aid, which has changed a lot since most had done it.

As with most things that the CFA need, they have to rely on fundraising and donations to meet their end requirements. Not only are these volunteers out there attending fires, accidents and other emergencies, they also spend hours and hours fundraising.

Other donation events in the pipeline are the Angliss Hospital, Foothills Community Care and a couple of others.

Last but not least, I ask the community to not only directly support these organisations (every dollar counts) but also support our friendly little market, so that we can continue to support these wonderful organisations.