LeagueNews - Cerebral Palsy League

Major
redevelopment in
Toowoomba
FORTY-five years from the
opening of the Cerebral Palsy
League’s Toowoomba centre in
November 1961, the League is
planning to re-design the Scott
Street site and bring together
children’s and adult services,
along with an administrative hub
under the same roof, through a
major redevelopment building
program.
The well situated administrative
head offices of the League in
the Darling Downs South
Queensland region, situated
opposite St Vincent’s Hospital
have not had any major works
since their inception.
With growing children’s
services requirements and an
urgent need to find a more
suitable home for the League’s
adult services, a new floor plan
has been designed.
A $1.2m Capital Appeal will be
staged throughout the Darling
Downs region and not unlike
the great community support of
the 50’s, a local fundraising
committee will be formed to
assist the League to raise the
necessary funds in financial
donations including naming
rights sponsorship and goods
in-kind donations.
Lord Mayors
announce bridge
walk to benefit
League
MARKETING and Fundraising
Manager of the Cerebral Palsy
League, Margaret Scott joined
Brisbane Lord Mayor Campbell
Newman as ‘Lord Mayor for a Day’
during November to shadow
councillor Newman on his daily
duties.
Amongst these duties was to
announce the Cerebral Palsy
League as the main beneficiary for
the official opening of the Eleanor
Schonell Bridge.
“The naming of the first bridge of
its type in Australia, Brisbane’s
newest river crossing, is a
wonderful tribute to an
extraordinary Brisbane woman
who dedicated her life to teaching
children with cerebral palsy, and
dyslexia,” Cr Newman said.
Ms Scott said she was thrilled the
first official duty of the Eleanor
Schonell Bridge would be to fund
some of the great work started by
its namesake more than 50 years
ago.
“We are so proud that our city is
recognising the pioneering work of
Dr Schonell and the dedication and
commitment of countless
numbers of people who have
followed in her footsteps, as well
as the many thousands of families
who have benefited from her life’s
work,” Ms Scott said.
“It’s just so fitting that the League
will be able to use the public
opening of the Eleanor Schonell
Bridge to help us continue building
on her life’s work.”
Ms Scott won the Lord Mayor for a
Day experience at auction through
the League’s Conrad Treasury
Boardroom Blitz event.
A family fun day to celebrate the
official opening and naming of
Australia’s first pedestrian, cycle
and bus bridge linking Dutton Park
to The University of Queensland’s
(UQ) St Lucia campus will be held
on Sunday 17 December.
Pictured: Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Campbell
Newman and Cerebral Palsy League client,
Nathan Ford, 8, celebrated the announcement
of the League as the major beneficiary of
fundraising efforts at the official opening of
the Eleanor Schonell Bridge, which will take
place on 17 December 2006.
If you’d like to be
involved in this
exciting new
redevelopment appeal
and assist the League
to realise its goal in
the Toowoomba
region, contact:
Donor Relations
Manager
Phone: 07 3358 8093
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