A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Forestview Families and Broader Bundaberg Community

We are incredibly grateful for the amazing support shown by our Forestview Community Kindergarten families and broader community during our Term 1 Cadbury Chocolate Drive fundraiser.

Thanks to your enthusiasm, generosity, and willingness to go the extra mile and to the broader community for purchasing said yummy chocolates, we are thrilled to share that together we raised an incredible $1,716.45!

These funds will play an important role in helping us begin our 2026 goal of replacing shade sails across our outdoor spaces—ensuring our children can continue to learn, play, and explore in safe and comfortable environments.

Your ongoing support makes such a meaningful difference to our kindy community, and we truly appreciate every effort made.

Thank you for being such a wonderful part of Forestview! 

Music BINGO

A Heartfelt THANK YOU! 🎶


We’re beyond excited to celebrate the amazing success of our Music Bingo FUNdraiser — together, we raised an incredible $3,200! 💲🎉

👏  A huge shout-out to everyone who made it possible:

💃 To our fabulous bingo players – your enthusiasm, laughter, and support made the room come alive!


🎵  To the families and businesses who sponsored songs – you gave our afternoon the perfect soundtrack!


🏆 To our generous raffle prize donors – your contributions made the raffle a true crowd favourite.


🎤 And to Lisa from Just 4 Fun Entertainment – thank you for once again being an amazing host and bringing the fun to life!

🎵 MUSIC BINGO FUNdraiser – Sunday 26th October 🎵

🎵 MUSIC BINGO FUNdraiser – Sunday 26th October 🎵
Get ready to rock the room at Forestview Kindy’s Music Bingo FUNdraiser! 🎉🎶
Join us on Sunday, 26th October at The Spotted Dog for an unforgettable afternoon of music, prizes, laughs, and fundraising fun! 🎸🎷🎻
It’s going to be a note-worthy event – bring the whole family and help us raise funds for a fantastic cause! 🎼💖
BOOK YOUR TABLE NOW – we can’t wait to see you there! 🤗

PLEASE Support Forestview Kindergarten

with Our Donut Fundraiser!

Forestview kindergarten is excited to be running a Donut Fundraiser this year to help raise money for our amazing kindergarten.

Treat yourself (or someone else!) and support a great cause by ordering as many 6-packs as you’d like!

Donut Options:

* 6-Pack Glazed Donuts –

6 x classic plain glazed donuts – $24

* 6-Pack Mixed Donuts –

Includes:

1 x Caramel-filled

1 x Nutella-filled

1 x Jam-filled

1 x Custard-filled

1 x Pink sprinkle

1 x Chocolate sprinkle – $24

All donuts are freshly made by the delicious Sicario’s Bakery!

Important Info:

✅ Choose your preferred collection date during checkout.

✅ Your pickup date will be confirmed after orders close.
✅ Collection may occur across multiple days/weeks.

📍 📍 Pickup at 130A Takalvan Street , Kensington QLD 4670
🗓️ Orders close 5PM Sunday 7 September

➡️ Order now & choose your preferred pickup date!
🍩 Donut hold back!!

Shopping Trip🛍🚌 Shopping Bus Trip FUNdraiser – Reserve Your Seat Today! 🚌🛍Shopping Trip

Join us for a fabulous day out with our Sunshine Coast Shopping Bus Trip FUNdraiser! 🛍☀️

✨️ EVENT DETAILS ✨️
🗓️ Date: Saturday, 8th November
💰 Cost: $80 per person
💵 Deposit: $50 (non-refundable, required to secure your spot)
⏰ Time: Departing around 5:30am, returning by 7:30pm
📍 Destinations: Eumundi Markets & Sunshine Plaza
🚍 Seats Available: 56 only – get in quick!

🎉 ONBOARD FUN 🎉
We’ll be running a “100s Number Board” raffle with amazing prizes (you can purchase your number on the bus)! 🎟🎁
PLUS – every passenger is automatically entered into our Lucky Seat Prize Draw!

🔐 HOW TO BOOK 🔐
Contact Alisa Johnson at 0488 481 787 for bank details to pay your $50 deposit.

Seats are limited and filling fast – book now for a day full of shopping, laughs, and great company with your Forestview friends! We can’t wait to share this adventure with you! 🚌✨💕

Sausage Sizzle!!!

💰 A SUPER SIZZLING SUCCESS!! 💰🔥
We are over the moon to announce that we raised an INCREDIBLE $3️⃣2️⃣6️⃣3️⃣.4️⃣6️⃣ at our BBQ last Saturday!! 💰💰
This result could not have been achieved without the great generosity of local businesses, the Illingworth and Zunker Families for the soft drink & water donations and all our Forestview families who supported our BBQ through sausage tray sponsorships, monetary and paper-towel donations. 🙏 This meant that we were able to keep our expenses down to a minimal amount, which has greatly attributed to our sizzling success!!  
Also, a HUGE thank you goes to our amazing volunteers and educators who came out on the day to help serve our community!! We couldn’t have run this event without you!! 🫶
A special shout out goes to those families that popped into Bunnings, said hello and grabbed a snag!! 🌭 Thank you for making the time to come out today, it was lovely to see you all there.
And once again thank you everyone for your constant support of our FUNdraisers!! We are MAKING A HUGE DIFFERENCE for our little people!! 🙏❤️

DOUGHRAISER!!!

Thank you Domino’s West Bundaberg for their dough-lightful donation of $702 to Forestview, raised through their incredible DoughRaiser even on Wednesday 21st May!

We truly ‘knead’ to express our deepest gratitude for your ongoing support and generosity. This amazing contribution will go a long way in helping us build an even more engaging and inspiring learning environment for our little learners.

A huge slice of thanks also goes to our wonderful Forestview families – past and present – along with our friends and the wider Bundaberg community. Your appetite for giving and community spirit helped make this event and absolute success!

A special shoutout to Harry and and the entire team at Domino’s West – your behind the scenes hustle and heart didn’t go unnoticed. Thank you for including Forestview in such a meaningful initiative and making every moment count.

Together, we’ve proven once again that when community and kindness come together, the results are truly delicious.

Cork & Colour what fun!

Our final major fundraiser for the year has been and gone and what a wonderful success it was! Two sold out sessions of 40 people attended on Saturday 6th October and we raised nearly $3,000 for our wonderful kindy in the process!

Cross Gallery was decked out with tables, flowers (thank you to one of our wonderful kindy families – Anastasi Blooms), paint, nibbles and wine and wonderful local artist and talented tutor Jennifer McDuff led the 80 participants to paint their own piece of take home art.

We had a silent art auction on the night with beautiful pieces of art donated by John Olsen, Susan Hutton, Clinton Cross and Leslie French all of which found new homes by the end of the evening while raising a few extra dollars for the kindergarten.

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This was a wonderful event and we thank each and every community member who attended for their support.

A huge thanks also goes to:

  • Katrina and Tim Pyle for the loan of esky and tables and the delivery of chairs back to kindy
  • Lou and Adrian Stallard (& Jace) for set up, pack down and delivery of chairs to the venue
  • Tammy Antastasi and Trina for the wonderful blooms
  • Elke McCrystal for her generous donation of time, expertise and speedy cutting skills
  • Amanda Irwin for the extra tables
  • Jaimea Collins and Ana Burgess for their clean up skills
  • Phil and Marlies Oakely at Art Plus for the loan of an easel and table

Fundraising events could not happen without the support of the many kindy families, their friends and other community members who attended so a HUGE THANK YOU to all who have supported our events throughout 2018.

 

Huge fundraising weekend for Forestview!

On Friday 22 June our kindy held our first and a SOLD OUT City Fit Bootylicious fundraiser! This is such an awesome effort! We had 70 people dance, sweat, sing and crump their heart out to 80’s tunes like Maniac, Girls just want to have fun, Rhythm of the night, Push It and loads more. Over an hour and a half of heart-pumping, soul-feeding, sometimes uncoordinated and amazing moves!
Thank you to our sponsors for the raffle – Bundy Food Tours, BP Lowes Petroleum, Running Bare and Lowepro, the prize was drawn on the night and went to a previous Forestview mum from years ago Tanya. Congrats!

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This event earned the kindy approximately $750, so a HUGE thank you goes to Denise Williamson, Dave Cooke and Sharon Beathe for their generous donation of the room, instructor and all of the wonderful decorations and the best dressed prize. City FIt is an amazing gym they offer a wonderful schedule of classes and are very reasonably priced. Check out all the classes and details via their website – https://www.cityfit.net.au/

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Bunnings BBQ

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We backed up our dance moves with our annual Bunnings BBQ bright and early on Saturday morning! Neil Hutchinson fearlessly lead the charge with set up along with Andrew Green, Stu Ross, Mrs Louise and Jess dropping extra supplies off! This was an amazingly successful BBQ with Mrs Leisha managing to on-sell anything we had left at the end of the day. A massive thank you goes to the following volunteers for undertaking the sign up, training required and your time on the day:

  • Neil Hutchinson for your loading and unloading of the trailer, organising ice, eskies and masterfully getting our BBQ off to a wonderful start, cooking over 300 snags by the time 10:30 rolled around! Also for being flexible and joining back in at the end of the day to assist with pack down and clean up.
  • Andrew Green
  • Stuart Ross
  • Nigel Cross
  • Kristy Cross
  • Amanda Irwin
  • Grant Irwin
  • Peter Gear
  • Damien Botha
  • Nadine Zunker
  • Emma Hinschen
  • A huge thank you goes to the staff as well – Mrs Louise, Mrs Nicole and Mrs Leisha for giving up your time on the weekend too to help out and guide us all through it.

Thank you to everyone and anyone who supported the BBQ on the day and visited our wonderful kindy whilst we were the BBQ masters of Bunnings! It was a very busy day, with snags in hot demand. 

Thank you to everyone again for supporting our wonderful fundraisers. Have a great week ahead.

Cheers,

Jess Marsellos on behalf of the Forestview Committee.

Reminders to save the date:

  • Champers and Hampers, Sunday 26 August, 3 – 6pm at the kindy. Tickets and further details available soon.
  • Cork & Colour, Saturday 6 October, 4 – 6pm with artist Jennifer McDuff at Cross Gallery, Electra Street. Tickets available mid August, a wait list has been started so email Jess if you want your name and numbers down.