The South East Queensland Professional Housekeepers Association had an Early Easter Breakfast held at the Holiday Inn Surfers Paradise. “We had a great morning, Mardi Shennan from A H Beard gave a talk on her company that is Australian owned. They donated $250,000 of beds to the flood relief in Queensland with no publicity or fuss, which was wonderful to hear,” said SEQPHA’s Melissa Bent.

“ We also wished Leeann Shultz from Sewroo all the best she was flying to the UK that afternoon to participate in the London Marathon on Sunday – she had raised $10,000 towards a great cause for the Heart Foundation. Leeann had suffered a heart attack last year and now running a marathon and we had helped with a $500 donation and selling raffle tickets.

“A H Beard donated a bed to raffle which helped her reach her target. We also raised over $200 at this function towards our charities with our raffles. Prizes kindly donated by our suppliers once again. One of our suppliers said she knew of a young lady who was 19 and has suffered from leukaemia since she was 16 she has to stay in hospital for a while, during her treatment and asked if anyone had a holiday house, or spare room as Ronald McDonald House cannot take her anymore due to her age.

“Leeann and Graham of Sewroo, put up their hands straight away and said she can stay at their house while they are in the UK and even longer if needed. There was not a dry eye in the house, how generous of them both, so nice to know there are kind people around to help out others.

“Finally a big thank you to our bunny Colleen Reynolds from the Southport School, who puts on that costume each year, she brought the house down, we have not laughed so much.

Our next Function is race day at the Gold Coast Turf Club on the 14 May, a fun day to dress up and catch up with all.”