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An open letter to our community

December 2024

Dear Phillip Island Community,

Thank you for your patience and understanding whilst PICAL deals with it’s historic underpayments and works towards a financially sustainable operation. We appreciate it’s been a difficult message for many in the community to deal with.

As previously noted, PICAL will be drawing on its financial reserves to help pay for historic underpayments. PICAL will be paying back its historic debts in 3 time periods, December 2024, March 2025 and July 2025. To help support this initiative and its ongoing operations PICAL is launching a fundraiser drive to ensure its financial reserves remain at an appropriate level. Ideally PICAL would like to raise at least $80,000. It hopes to do this through donations and various fundraising activities.

PICAL has continued to connect with its community over the recent difficult times and intends to do so well into the future. PICAL connects with you, its community through:

Providing food relief of 1000 kgs a week to 200 community members
Giving face to face Centrelink services to 50 people each week
Supporting 80 active volunteers who undertake 350 hours of volunteering each week.

Volunteers are actively involved in our garden, cooking groups, administration, food relief pantry, training and other special projects.

Offering services such as admin support, room hire, and shared knowledge of other community services available.
Offering training courses and community group activities
Engaging external employment and support services located on the premises
From 2025 a relief and recovery centre in times of emergencies eg power loss
Auspicing community groups

PICAL is hoping you can donate to help support our cause. You can donate by going to our website or face to face at our premises, 16 Warley Ave, Cowes. Other than cash donations, there are other ways you can support PICAL including volunteering, choosing to hire our rooms or donating food to our food relief pantry. Details of these activities are on the website.

Community Centres such as PICAL are places that operate best when connected to their community. We hope you see the value of your local community centre and are able to support us in your way.

Regards

David Rooks Graeme Turner

Centre Manager Board Chair

Sponsorship and Grants

PICAL is always ready to consider partnering with sponsors and other grant bodies in delivering services and benefits to our community Please contact our Centre Manager, David Rooks, for more information.

PICAL is a registered charity and has GST tax concession status. We gratefully accept donations and sponsorship for our various programs. Please contact Centre Manager David Rooks for more information

Please note that PICAL does not deal in second-hand goods and does not have storage, so we cannot accept old furniture, equipment or household goods. What we really need are cash donations.