An effort that doesn't go unnoticed

Local woman Jenny Johnston has received warm thanks for her efforts in fundraising this year. The Children’s Medical Research Centre (CMRC) sent a letter of appreciation to Mrs Johnston for her huge effort for Jeans for Genes Day this year. Mrs Johnston raised her best total yet, eclipsing the $10,000 mark.

In the letter of thanks CMRC’s director of fundraising Robert Wynn spoke of his and institute’s gratitude for the work done by Mrs Johnston.

“I really want you to know how grateful we are for your tireless efforts year after year and the community that supports your work, even when faced with the challenges of restrictions due to COVID,” Mr Wynn wrote.

“What an absolutely amazing fundraising effort from the Gilgandra community.” Support services manager at the CMRC Karla Wild said that given the current disturbances to fundraising activities with COVID that this total had was hard to quantify.

“I can’t actually put into words how much it has meant to us,” said Mrs Wild.

“We did expect that fundraising was going to be a hard ask this year, especially in certain areas. Mrs Johnston has always tried to better the last year’s sales and she’s succeeded in that.

“This year I estimated if she got half of what she would normally that would be fantastic because of the situation. When she told me how she’d raised I couldn’t believe it.”

In 2018 Mrs Johnston went down to Sydney for the unveiling of the honour wall at the CMRC offices. Also, at the offices is the fundraising leader board, in which Gilgandra sits in the top five.