Monday,
21 July 2025
Community effort to help fight cancer

It's Biggest Morning Tea season and individuals, businesses, community groups and institutions in Forbes have been banding together to help fight for a future without cancer.

Among the many has been Forbes TAFE who held their fundraiser for Cancer Council on 21 May at its premises in Browne Street.

They were thrilled with the TAFE community's generosity.

"Attendance was great with staff, students and the general public involved and we had an abundance of lovely goodies to eat," Forbes TAFE wrote on social media.

"An especially big thank you to Forbes High School for the support of students who cooked our barbecue, set up, cleaned and packed up.

"Your involvement was much appreciated. We were able to raise some great [dollars] for the very worthy Cancer Council NSW."

Forbes' fundraising dollars were added to a regional tally that involved Parkes, Condobolin, Lake Cargelligo and Orange TAFE campuses as well.

The final fundraising tally for all these campuses came to $2383.80.

The smallest campus of the group, Lake Cargelligo with a population under 1500 people, raised the most with $924.

"A huge thank you to our amazing teams and communities for making this year’s Biggest Morning Tea such a success," Parkes TAFE said sharing the regional news.

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"A massive appreciation to our TAFE services coordinators and supporting staff whose hard work brought each campus to life, with donations for raffles and community spirit in Lake, classic cars and bikes at Forest Road, painting with students at March Street, team bonding and baking at Parkes, community support and a barbecue with the high school at Forbes, and fantastic contributions from staff and students at Condobolin."