On Saturday 25 May, the 2024 Climb 4 CORES fundraising event will have Inkerman crawling with passionate locals walking the track to raise funds and awareness for mental health.
CORES aims to spread mental health awareness and provides Queenslanders with valuable tools, resources, and information to help those struggling with their mental health, and potentially save someone’s life. The work that CORES carries out is completely free and their only source of funding to continue is drawn from community driven fundraisers such as the Climb 4 CORES.
The Climb 4 CORES fundraiser will run from 7am to 11am this Saturday, where participants can enter teams of any number to walk Inkerman Hill with at least one team member on the hill at all times. To ensure the safety of all participants, the Burdekin Shire Council will be closing off Inkerman Hill to general traffic throughout the event. A base camp will be set up and operating at the base of Inkerman’s new goat track where team captains will collect all registration information for their team members and pay the nomination fee of $50 which will go directly towards CORES Queensland. All funds raised from the Climb 4 CORES event will be re-invested locally into the Burdekin community to support CORES’ free suicide intervention training programs which can be run anytime, anywhere in the region.
Janai Giddy, the event’s coordinator, made the decision to run the event following on from her extraordinary fundraising event in 2023 where she walked from Ayr to Townsville and raised over $12,000 for CORES Queensland.
“The day I began the walk, people were already asking me, what’s next, we want to be a part of something to raise money for CORES, so that’s when we came up with the Inkerman walk to make a team event for everyone in the community to get involved and get people talking,” explained Janai.
The event was selected with the challenge of mental health in mind and the important role health and general fitness plays in developing a positive relationship with your mind and body. Janai believes the challenge of walking Inkerman Hill serves as a valuable parallel to the challenges those struggling with mental health experience daily, further raising additional awareness on the important work CORES provides for the region.
The event has established a Go Fund Me page for those unable to participate in the event but still wishing to support the fundraising efforts. All information on how to register and support the event are available on the CORES Queensland Facebook page.
What: Climb 4 CORES fundraising event
When: Saturday 25 May 2024
Where: Inkerman Hill
More Information: CORES Queensland Facebook page
Janai Giddy (centre) is organising the Climb 4 CORES fundraiser after walking from Ayr to Townsville to raise money for CORES in 2023
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