Bringing Project Walk to Melbourne - Gala Dinner

Project Walk Melbourne is a not-for-profit organisation committed to bringing hope to those with spinal cord injury. One of our clients, Rhiannon Tracey, has been instrumental in the venture “Bringing Project Walk to Melbourne”. Project Walk Melbourne is intent on opening a facility in Melbourne, with the view to providing more rehabilitation choices to those with spinal cord injury and to further aid in their recovery after injury. The vision of Project Walk Melbourne is to have a centre located in the outskirts of Melbourne which provides a boot camp type facility for quadriplegics and paraplegics. This vision stems from the understanding that there is no easy way to recover from a spinal cord injury. However, with much hard physical work, specialised trainers and the implementation of a well-researched and thought out alternative therapies plan, complimenting the existing Project Walk training, at times substantial gains can be made by those with spinal cord injury.

On 23 July 2011 Project Walk Melbourne held a magnificent Gala Dinner at the Centre in Ivanhoe as a fundraising event for this project. There were more than 400 attendees and Peter Burt & Clara Davies were very proud to support the event by hosting a table of 12 at the dinner – the Burt & Davies table.

It was a spectacular evening! There was a huge amount of support for Project Walk Melbourne and all in attendance were treated to a night of fabulous food and entertainment. The fundraising efforts were contributed to through a number of means including auctions, both public and silent, raffles and donations. Burt & Davies successfully bidded on a number of very interesting auction items and in doing so made a contribution to this very worthwhile cause. The items secured included a Collingwood guernsey signed by all members of the 2010 Premiership team, an electric guitar signed by all band members of Irish rock supergroup U2 (Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullin Jnr) and the signed boots of championship F1 Ferrari drivers, Filipe Massa and Fernando Alonso.

Rhiannon

Peter and Clara

It was fantastic to learn that Project Walk Melbourne raised in excess of $ 50,000.00 from the Gala Dinner and its fundraising efforts on the night. Even so further funds are needed to make this very worthwhile project a reality. Project Walk Melbourne needs the further support of corporate sponsors and community organisations, as well as volunteers to assist with the many tasks to be undertaken. For anyone interested in offering assistance a link to the Project Walk Melbourne website appears on our Links Page. Opportunities to become involved in this project are detailed further on the Project Walk Melbourne website.

For more information on how Burt & Davies can help you, contact either Peter Burt or Clara Davies, specialist Car Accident Lawyers & Car Accident Compensation Lawyers, Level 11, 451 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. They are both Accredited Personal Injury Lawyers, Melbourne who practice exclusively in Transport Accident Compensation & TAC claims.