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BUildiNG StrENGtH rEaCHiNG PotENtial

Editorial

WelCoMe To The FiNAl eDiTioN oF TAlkiNg PoiNT FoR 2019.

It has been an incredible year Disability Royal Commission
for MDNSW and, as usual, it has MDNSW would like to express its full support of the Royal
absolutely flown by! Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and exploitation
The end of an era of People with Disability. Through the Disability Royal
Sadly, in December we will Commission we hope to see greater community awareness
of the experiences of people with a disability and their
farewell our Office Manager, families, including awareness of the impact of abuse,
Maralyn. For 10 years Maralyn neglect and exploitation.
has supported MDNSW and its staff in more ways than
we can count. She has been a wonderful asset to the MDNSW members are our highest priority, and we are here
organisation, and will be sorely missed by everyone in the to support you and your family should you choose to make
community (though she’s promised to stay in touch – and a submission to the Royal Commission. Please contact our
don’t worry, we’ll hold her to that!). Client Services team if you need support to do this.

As we farewell Maralyn, we warmly welcome three new THANK YOU!
part-time members of our Marketing & Development Finally, i’d like to acknowledge the team and volunteers
team: Alicia, our new Marketing & Development Manager, here at MDNSW for all your hard work over the last 12
and Jess and Tash in Development Coordinator roles. months. Your passion and dedication to ‘empowering,
They will be supporting us to engage with as many of our Connecting and Supporting’ the MD community does not
community members as possible and continue to raise the go unnoticed, and we really couldn’t do it without you.
much needed funds to support the programs we offer.
Have a terrific holiday season. We look forward to seeing
From next year, our current Development Coordinator, you in a shiny new 2020!
lou, will be moving into a position with a focus purely on
growing our annual fundraiser, Sugar Free September,
which has proven to be a wonderful success in 2019, raising CHARLOTTE SANGSTER
over $100,000. Thank you to all the wonderful fundraisers
who participated this year. As lou would say, you are all general Manager, Muscular Dystrophy NSW
legeNDS!

FUNdraiSiNG

cont. YOU DID IT - $100,000!
A big thank you also goes to the wonderful
gabby Campbell, our resident Nutritionist/
Naturopath, from The Tolerant Table. gabby
provided delicious recipes and informative
articles on the impact of sugar on gut
health, as well as answered our sugar related
questions in the Sugar Free September
Facebook community group. You can join the
group by going to www.sugarfreeseptember.
org.au/group and connect with likeminded
people, get support and also receive updates
throughout the year.

Thanks also to our partners who provided prizes for our top fundraisers, including Urban Spa for their heavenly
pamper prize packs and gutsy Ferments, for their delicious seasonal packs.

Although Sugar Free September has wrapped up for this year, you can register your interest for the 2020 challenge
by going to www.sugarfreeseptember.org.au/2020 and you will be the first to know when registrations open.
if you’d like to host your own fundraising event please call 02 9888 5711 or email fundraising@mdnsw.org.au, we’d
love to hear all about your ideas and plans!

Thanks again to everyone who participated and we look forward to seeing you go #SugarFreeForMD next year

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