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Music for Blankets, 5pm Saturday 12th May – as featured in mX
Featured on page 4 of yesterday’s mX, 300 Blankets will be holding its first fundraising event tomorrow in a spectacular fashion. Music for Blankets will be held at Fabrique Bar – 272 City Road, with doors opening at 5:00pm. We have an awesome line up of amazing musicians and bands, beautiful artwork on display and […]
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Music for Blankets this Saturday, 12 May 2012
We’re super excited! Everything is set for what will be an amazing night of performances, artwork and community warmth. Doors open at 5:00 and performances start at 5:30 so make sure you are there early to not miss out on anything. Tickets can still be purchased at www.trybooking.com/BJPB or at the door. To make sure […]
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300 Blankets proudly supporting St Vincent de Paul Society
The journey of 300 Blankets began with a meeting with Brian, a manager of a soup van for St Vincent de Paul. It was in the discussion with Brian that we learnt that the Vinnies soup vans operate every night of the year to support and feed the disadvantaged. On any given night, one soup […]
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Who 300 Blankets is helping
Hi friends, firstly I’d like to thank you all for your show of support. The team at 300 Blankets and I are so excited about the awareness and engagement we’re building about homelessness in our community and our fundraising initiatives. Recently, I was asked by a friend, “How do people become homeless? Do we know […]
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300 Blankets presents Music for Blankets
We have officially launched our first event! After months of planning, 300 Blankets have launched the first fundraising event – Music for Blankets. This is an incredible moment for our team. We have been working tirelessly on finding the right location to hold an event that we collectively and as individuals are so excited about. […]
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Our work thus far.
It is our ‘soft’ launch tonight. Feeling rather anxious, (a bit stressed) but no doubt we are all very incredibly excited! Who would of known all of this all started after an almost wasted half of a Sunday, after Waz and I decided on a spontaneous brunch catch up. ‘Soo..what’s your new years resolution?’ opened up […]
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300 Blankets – Pre Launch Meeting
The 300 Blankets management team sat down for the final meeting before our official launch today. Sitting in the back of the library as we approached the 4th hour mark of the meeting, we thought to ourselves that we truly have the best, most dedicated management team. It was a Saturday, the weather was a […]
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300 Blankets meeting @ Fabrique
Amanda (Event 1 manager) and I re-visited Fabrique to confirm the dates and time of our first event. In today’s meeting we went through our plans and marketing strategies with managers Thai and Jason and they gave us amazing advice and tips on how to make great events. These guys do this for a living […]
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300 Blankets proudly supports Hanover
After visiting Hanover several times, 300 Blankets is proud to announce our support of this wonderful organisation. The fantastic staff at the homeless organisation has provided 300 Blankets with extensive insight the current homeless situation in Melbourne and Australia. We are also in talks with the organisation to have a speaker from Hanover to present […]
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300 Blankets – Keeping our community warm.
Hello and welcome to the 300 Blankets blog. 300 Blankets will use this forum to update the public on our fundraising progress and share with you our thoughts, feelings, triumph and hurdles as we strive to lead the team to achieving our goals. As the Melbourne weather begins to embrace the chilling Autumn winds, today […]
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