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	Rocky Winner – St Anthony’s Pink Panthers The St Anthony’s Pink Panthers are a group of Year 7 students who played in the U12 division of the Red Rooster Touch Tournament held on 5th and 6th November 2011 at the Rockhampton Touch Association. Working with us, these young boys dedicated the weekend to raising funds for breast cancer. Local business Buddy’s Fire Sales [...]
	PINK OCTOBER AAPT Brisbane held a luncheon on Friday the 21st October – AAPT’s Pink Day In. Staff enjoyed PINK champagne, champagne slushies (delicious!!) and nibbled on some savouries. Staff paid a small fee to join in with many donating additional cash. A Tupperware display was put on and true to form it proved popular with [...]
	PINK Panther Day Play for a Cure, with Brisbane Panthers Softball club, held a Pink Panther Day on the 15th October. It was held at the headquarters for Brisbane Softball, Downey Park! This event was held last year and again the Panthers Club got into the spirit by wearing their pink socks to raise awareness of breast cancer. [...]
	PINK OCTOBER October is universally recognised as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and everybody uses this opportunity to wear their favourite colour - PINK! Play for a Cure are also getting into the PINK with the following activities lined up to raise funds for this very important cause: - Once again AAPT are getting on board with Play [...]
	P4AC and CanTeen Play for a Cure Foundation had a unique opportunity to donate some money last month. In all cases to date we have been able to write a letter, enclosing a cheque, when donating. It is still a great thrill to be able to sign the cheque, but even more so when we were presented with [...]
	P4AC Masters Team Fundraising at SQ Masters UPDATE! Softball Queensland, who kindly managed our merchandise for the weekend, have come back with a final figure after completing the stock take. $866! Taking into account this amount, and final figures tallied, our total raised for the SQ Masters weekend is $4573.40. Oh so close to the $5000 target – brilliant work everybody! From [...]
	P4AC are Invited Due to our donation, from funds raised at the Yellow Socks Softball Challenge, to the Australian Cancer Research Foundation, we were invited to attend the opening of the ACRF comprehensive Cancer Genomics Facility at the Diamantina Institute in the PA Hospital on Tuesday 19th July, 2011. The grant to enable this opening was provided by the [...]
	Play for a Cure Masters Team You are probably aware that our charity has a Masters Softball Team! This year we are again competing at the Softball Queensland Masters, where we will be defending our Division 1 title we won last year. However this year, we will be down one player, with the passing of our beautiful friend Jo McCullagh (nee [...]
	Broncos Presentation A brief, but well received, presentation was held this morning at the Brisbane Broncos Leagues club. It was to thank the players and the club for participating in the Inaugural Yellow Socks Softball Challenge Some of the players were met prior to the presentation and several mentioned how much they enjoyed the day and [...]
	AAPT’s Biggest Morning Teas Over the period of 2 weeks, throughout 3 states, Play for a Cure facilitated AAPT’s Biggest Morning Teas. NSW offices, over 3 floors held traditional morning teas. Qld had a morning tea but building on P4AC’s foundation of sport, played some Pong Baseball, whilst eating, and held a Tupperware demonstration. Instead of P4AC receiving Tupperware [...]