Gympie Salvos in Gympie, Queensland | Community organisation

Gympie Salvos

Locality: Gympie, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5482 1710

Address: 42 Stumm Road 4570 Gympie, QLD, Australia

Website: http://salvationarmy.org.au/gympie

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13.01.2022 #WiseWordsWednesday Cr. Dailyverses.net

10.01.2022 Many in our community are looking forward to Christmas as a time of hope in a difficult year and an opportunity to celebrate with family and friends. Sadly, 20...20 is the year that just keeps on giving and Christmas in the Park is yet another casualty. We have made the hard decision to cancel this year’s event due to the extremely high costs involved in running it under the COVIDSafe regulations. Christmas in the Park is a large community event with over 5,000 people usually attending and the COVID requirements for managing a gathering like this are extremely difficult to navigate. As organisers, we have spent months looking at a variety of options for the event, however, in the end we realised we’d get half the crowd, at half an event, for twice the cost. Please read on to hear more about the challenges involved. For Christmas in the Park to run this year, it has to operate under the state approved COVIDSafe plan for large events. That plan would have allowed for an event with approximately 3,000 people attending in the space we use at Nelson Reserve. Not only is that almost half of our usual crowd, but the various rules and restrictions would have made rides and a visit from Santa very difficult to manage, due to social distancing and extra cleaning requirements. The plan required us to do a number of extra COVIDSafe things to manage the crowd size, including creating a register of every person attending. This would have meant either ticketing the event or making everyone check in on arrival. It would possibly have involved fencing Nelson Reserve to make that work properly. We also had to provide hand sanitisation stations and regular cleaning by professionals, and several strategies to ensure social distancing for those there. We estimate the cost of staging this event is almost double what it would normally be and that’s simply not possible in this economic environment. Ultimately, for us as a team, the sheer cost of putting on Christmas in the Park this year was beyond the pale. We could not ask our sponsors or Council to provide double what they normally do, and we felt that finding extra funding at this late stage would be next to impossible. The ever-changing nature of the restrictions meant that by the time we knew we could run the event; we had run out of time to find the extra funding needed. Accordingly, our team, and the Gympie Minister’s Network, who ultimately run Christmas in the Park, felt the best thing to do was cancel this year’s event. All is not lost though. Your Christmas in the Park team are working with major sponsor, 91.5fm, to bring another exciting Christmas event to Gympie. The Twelve Days of Christmas will be a mix of on air and around town content, involving prizes and giveaways, angels and shepherds, Christmas music and the Star of Christmas. The Twelve Days of Christmas is still in the planning stages and when we know more, we’ll be sharing it with Gympie and inviting everyone to join in. The Gympie Minister’s Network is grateful to the sponsors who make Christmas in the Park happen each year and to the partnership we have with the Gympie Regional Council, who have helped us navigate the rules in place for this year. We may not be hosting an event this Christmas, but we’ll be back in 2021 with a fantastic night for our community.

09.01.2022 #WiseWordsWednesday

06.01.2022 #WiseWordsWednesday "Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who maintains covenant loyalty with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations." - Deuteronomy 7:9 (NRSV)

06.01.2022 Due to severe storm warning, we are closing now at 3pm. Sorry for any inconvenience

01.01.2022 ****2020 Christmas Assistance - Please Share**** Applications are now open for Christmas Toy Hampers for children 0-12 years old and their siblings. Due to COVID-19 restrictions this years hampers will be pre-packaged and Parents/caregivers will not be able to choose specific presents for the children in their care. Additionally, due to limited funding there will be no grocery gift cards available. If you are experiencing hardship and require financial assistance please conta...ct the Salvos Assistance Line on 1300 371 288. Last day to apply is WEDNESDAY 25th NOVEMBER!!!! Please drop into our office at 42 Stumm Road, Southside between 09:00 and 11:00 am Monday to Friday.