By Alesha Capone
The Werribee Craft Festival has donated a coffee machine and hamper to a Wyndham ambulance branch.
Festival committee members Anne Marshall and Betty Parker presented the machine to paramedics from the Manor Lakes branch of Ambulance Victoria last Thursday.
Ms Parker said the festival’s committee had spent $1000 raised through last year’s craft event on the coffee machine and hamper of vouchers and food.
Paramedic team manager Dianne Angleton said the coffee machine was a “marvellous donation”.
“It’s a wonderful gesture and we are completely thrilled,” she said.
“It’s very appropriate for what our paramedics do, as we are a 24-hour branch and do drink a lot of coffee.”
Ms Parker said the Werribee Craft Festival, a not-for-profit organisation, had been putting the profits from its annual event back into local charities and the Wyndham community for four decades. The festival, which started in 1978, will celebrate its 40th anniversary this year.
Donations raised by the festival in past years have helped organisations including the Wyndham Community and Education Centre, the Heathdale Community Centre, the Werribee Cancer Support Group, cat rescue group Purrs of Point Cook, the Country Women’s Association, Werribee RSL, the Werribee South Coast Guard, dance groups and retirement villages.
This year’s Werribee Craft Festival will be held on the weekend of November 10 and 11 at the Encore Events Centre in Hoppers Crossing.
