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25.01.2022 AND THE WINNERS of the Lifestyle 500 PE Tahe Marine sea kayak Including a PFD, Spray Deck and Paddle, ....... Callum Maclea, stay tuned for other competitions.
23.01.2022 Thank You Charles Davidson from the Peninsula Hot Springs for the couple of free bathing passes. We will let you know shortly who will be receiving these passes: Dear Jeannine, We would be happy to provide you with a couple of bathing passes for each of the three competitors. Possibly these can be used for a group visit for them and the organizers of the event! I will leave that up to you.... Can you please advise where you want them sent, or you can pick them up, either way. Kind regards, Charles Davidson Peninsula Hot Springs
22.01.2022 A snapshot of CHIPS by MP Anthony Byrne
21.01.2022 If people would like to assist with the Charity event, the way you could help is by promoting the cause amongst your friends! We really want to create awareness in the community for the need for mentors and buddies to volunteer with Big Brother Big Sister and on C.H.I.P.S camps. There is a huge waiting list of young people waiting to be matched with a Big Brother Big sister. Research has shown what a difference one significant adult (who accepts them unconditionally) can make in a young persons life. Check out the video clips below!
20.01.2022 Check out the fun the kids and buddies have on Life Gets Better Camps! You can be in highschool and be a buddy on a C.H.I.P.S. camp.
20.01.2022 Right now 650 Australian children at risk are desperately waiting to be matched with a Big Brother or Big Sister.
19.01.2022 The Port to Port 100km Challenge website is up and running! If you are a VSKC member, you can start registering by going onto the website and clicking on to Start Fundraising. Complete your details, add your profile picture, a little about yourself, and why you are taking the Challenge. More details can be found on the Port to Port 100km Challenge page, and event details will be circulated via email- Happy Fundraising!
18.01.2022 Together we can make a difference!
16.01.2022 C.H.I.P.S. is a non-profit organisation based in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, which provides programs, seminars and support to local primary school communities. CHIPS also conducts Life Gets Better Camps for children who have experienced trauma, grief or loss in their lives. The camps have been running for twelve years and are held around Mothers Day and Fathers Day each year. CHIPS relies on donations and fundraising to conduct their Life Gets Better camps, which are run almost entirely by volunteers. All proceeds will go to these Life Gets Better camps.
15.01.2022 East Coast Kayaking, sponsor of the Port to Port 100km Challenge, has a competition at the moment where you can win a Lifestyle 500 PE- Tahe Marine sea kayak including gear. Go on to East Coast Kayaking page like the page and share the link. The winner will be announced on the 27th of April.
13.01.2022 Help Others, Have Fun, Raise Money, Challenge Yourself, Team Up with your Paddling Buddies, Paddle up to 100KM When: 13th and 14th April, 2013 Paddling starts 12 noon Saturday until around 10am Sunday... What: A fundraising Sea Kayak endurance event, with paddlers completing part or all of the 100km as individuals or in a team, in a single pod. This is Australias only 100km salt water event. Why: This is your chance to help make a difference to teenage depression and youth suicide by raising money and awareness for our charity partners Big Brothers Big Sisters and C.H.I.P.S. Where: We commence paddling from Rye, heading to Portsea then return and on to St Kilda. Paddling between seven check-point locations round the Bay Rye to Portsea, Tookgarook for pizza on the beach, Mt Martha, Mt Eliza, Edithvale, Sandringham, ending at St Kilda where a big brekkie will take place. How Do I Get Started? Register as a Paddler / Fundraiser Go to the Everyday Hero website whom we are using as our online fundraiser website: http://www.everydayhero.com.au/event/porttoportchallenge2013 Having EDH as our event platform makes it really easy for your friends, family and work colleagues to find out about your paddling challenge, as well as making it easy for them to support you. Complete your details, add your profile picture, a little about yourself and why you are taking the Challenge. Then blog, text, Facebook, email, call, tweet, twitter or whatever it takes to get everyone you know involved in understanding and supporting your quest to help our charity partners dealing with teenage depression and youth suicide as well as taking on the Challenge. How Far do I Paddle? / Getting Into a Team Send me an email or call me on 0407 49 54 53 and let me know how you would like to have an involvement in the paddling some of this will be determined by a combination of your paddling experience and or grading in the Club. The options are as little as start leg; start and finish legs; finish leg; daylight legs; combination of legs with your team; night time legs; or the whole 100km. You may form your own team or I can slot you into one once I am aware of how much you wish to paddle. Teams typically leapfrog throughout the event. It seems to be most effective if there are three or six in a team with two vehicles. This means you (or two paddlers) can paddle a leg, drive two legs ahead and sleep before taking on the next leg. At an average pace of 5 km per hour, the whole journey is expected to take about 22 hours including a significant portion of night-time paddling. We often think and talk about doing more to help other people......the Port to Port Challenge this year supports two fantastic charity partners working with our youth, and we get to paddle to help make a difference! x
13.01.2022 Feeling wrecked, but absolutely appreciative of the support received from loving, caring and kind people over the last couple of weeks. So many people to thank! Well done Victorian Sea Kayaking Club- you guys make me proud! Just had a two hour nap- now its time to unpack. Update coming shortly!
12.01.2022 Making a difference is easy- it simply requires us all to do our little bit by paying kindness forward!
12.01.2022 I spent the weekend doing the Wilderness First Aid course at Mt Eliza with members of the Victorian Sea Kayaking Club. I took a couple of minutes to share with the group what the Port to Port 100km Challenge is and the reason behind the event. I talked about how at the Youth Suicide Forum, I was surrounded by grieving mothers with questions.... Some parents knew their child was suicidal, but couldnt do anything to stop it. Others, some of who were personally suffering from depression, spoke about how expensive seeing a psychologist is. How often it was perceived as ineffective or how it had limitations. Many could not afford two hundred dollars a session, and could not schedule an appointment when they needed it. Stepping Stone has a stigma and isnt the nicest of environments. I shared with the group how research shows what a difference one significant adult can make in a young persons life. Hence, why youth mentoring and building relationships is a great way to make a difference! Big Brothers, Big Sisters provide mentoring for young people and carefully match children and youth with a Big Brother Big Sister. Unfortunately, there is a huge waiting list of young people waiting to be matched, due to a lack of adult mentors. Alex a member of the VSKC happened to come across C.H.I.P.S at Lysterfield lake, and shared his positive experience of meeting Captain Eric and the group. He mentioned how he observed them throughout the day and how he was astounded by the warmth and professionalism of the group and what they were doing with the young people; whom he said you could tell were not your typical children, yet at the end of the day the children were laughing and smiling. Giving children who have experienced abuse, grief and loss or death in their family, an opportunity to smile and see that life gets better is vital to their development. That is why we see the work that C.H.I.P.S does as early intervention. Big Brothers Big Sisters provides mentoring! C.H.I.P.S provides early intervention. These are two great causes making a difference in young peoples lives- please get behind them, and support this event!
11.01.2022 Making a difference in young peoples lives!
11.01.2022 What you are about to read was Jeannine Strohbecks journey in 6 months, as a C.H.I.P.S chaplain. The stories continue ... 2361 people died by suicide in Australia in 2010. Suicide remains a major external cause of death, accounting for more deaths than transport accidents. Last year I attended the Youth Suicide Forum. I was deeply grieved. I began to recognise in the weeks following how members of my Community have been affected by Suicide. ...Continue reading
11.01.2022 The six tandem kayaks kindly sponsored by East Coast Kayaking, will be filled with young people and their mentors on the last stretch of the 100km Port to Port paddle. The Charity event is intended to create awareness for the need of youth mentoring in Victoria and raise funds for Big Brothers, Big Sisters and C.H.I.P.S. Many of the Big Brothers, Big Sisters in attendance of the Port to Port Training Day shared how their Little Brothers and Little Sisters give back as much, if not more, as they give to them.
10.01.2022 Neil Power has overtaken Sally Bird as the top fundraiser, both whom have almost raised $1000. Well done to both Neil and Sally for their extraordinary efforts! Total funds raised so far is $5262.
08.01.2022 The reason we are organising the Port to Port Challenge, because suicide prevention requires a community response.
08.01.2022 An Update of the event: The weather wasnt favourable, so we didnt have an opportunity to paddle the whole distance. After postponing the event, and then arriving at Tootgarook at 5pm we waited for the wind to subside, which it didnt; we decided to drive on to Mornington where we could put our boats in the water and still be on schedule. ...Continue reading
07.01.2022 Here is the Port to Port 100km Challenge Banner if anyone is interested in uploading it to their Facebook page.
05.01.2022 Smallfry paddling in the 100km Port to Port Challenge! Eric and Cathys work with children within the City of Casey is commendable. They are always in need of volunteers. Check out their website here: http://www.chips.org.au
05.01.2022 Every life is valuable!
05.01.2022 CHIPS still needs four more male buddies for our Life Gets Better camp in two weeks. If youve been a buddy before & arent yet booked to go on camp, please consider coming along so we dont have to decline any of the boys who are currently on our list. Thank you
04.01.2022 People to thank: I am proud of how many people gave and contributed what they could before and during the Port to Port 100km event. It is the little things like sending texts to other paddlers of the change of plans that make a huge difference- It certainly was a team effort! Thank you Neil and Raia for your off water support, by picking up the trailer; going above and beyond in providing a hot meal and hot drinks, helping in the decision making, making phone calls and sendi...ng texts. Neil and Raia are consistently extremely generous! Thank you Peter Newman for helping out with signing members on and off the water, and providing a shuttle for paddlers at last minute when paddlers needed to be driven to Sandringham. Your contribution was invaluable! Thank you Rohan Klopfer from East Coast Kayaking, for generously lending your trailer and boats for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Training day and Port to Port 100km Challenge! And also for giving up your valuable time helping Peter to take boats on and off the trailer. Thank you to the C.H.I.P.S volunteers who cooked the bacon and eggs for breakfast and whom manned the marque at the St Kilda Youth Festival! Thank you to the Victorian Sea Kayaking Club participants for raising money, creating awareness and being part of the 100km charity paddle. Also, Vojin for sending out emails to club members! Thank you to SKYS for providing a space at the St Kilda Youth Festival for a marque for our charity partners. Thank you to all the support teams, and those of you who are reading this, who have been supportive in various ways; from sponsoring participants to driving participants to Rye, and picking them up from St Kilda. And lastly and most importantly, a huge thank you to Peter and Evette Costello for all the behind the scenes effort placed into putting the 100km Port to Port Challenge event together. Peter, for putting together the Every Day Heroes website; creating the Float plan, flyers and various other documentation; receiving phone calls and responding to various emails; providing the food and chopping up the bacon for breakfast; also for running the Big Brothers Big Sisters Training Day. Evette, for being supportive. And, also thank you to your daughter Sienna Costello for paddling alongside Smallfry! Thank you on behalf of Big Brothers, Big Sisters and C.H.I.P.S. for you support- I am sure the young people whom you will have made a difference too will be grateful! Thank you for making a difference!
03.01.2022 Our Team: On water organiser Peter Costello and active member of the Victorian Sea Kayak Club, is driven by his own experience of living with cancer since 2002 (currently in remission for the second time) Peter organised a similar event in 2006 raising funds for CanTeen and in 2007 and 2008 for OVCA (ovarian cancer). On water organiser Jeannine Strohbeck and active member of the Victorian Sea Kayak Club, has grown up in the City of Casey where the rates for teenage depression... and youth suicide are the highest in Melbourne. Jeannine is a Chaplain working with children and feels deeply the need for more to be done to help adolescents cope through this difficult period of their lives. Casey Welch Big Brothers Big Sisters provides services to young people aged 7 25 years who are lacking adequate support within the community. It is the longest standing and leading youth mentoring organisation in Victoria, and has a preventative and long-term focus. As a small not for a profit organisation, Big Brothers Big Sisters relies on a broad range of support for funding and volunteer mentors. Cathy Wieckmann C.H.I.P.S. is a non-profit organisation based in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, which provides programs, seminars and support to local primary school communities. CHIPS also conducts Life Gets Better Camps for children who have experienced trauma, grief or loss in their lives. The camps have been running for twelve years and are held around Mothers Day and Fathers Day each year. CHIPS relies on donations and fundraising to conduct their Life Gets Better camps, which are run almost entirely by volunteers.
03.01.2022 Only two more days until the 100km Challenge begins- you can make a pledge for every km, new paddler and member of the club, Greg Skowronski paddles. Our total amount fundraised so far is $3592!
03.01.2022 It is still not to late to donate! Ignore the message that the Port to Port Challenge has now finished.
01.01.2022 "The best thing you can do when you are feeling lonely is to give love away. The best thing you can do when you are feeling down, is get involved in something meaningful. Make a difference in other peoples lives. Happiness comes from giving."
01.01.2022 Proud to be part of the Victorian Sea Kayaking Club!
01.01.2022 A community response is required to Youth Suicide prevention, a quote I heard from a young person in a speech given at the Youth Suicide Forum in August last year. When I discovered former president of the Victorian Sea Kayaking Club, Peter Costello, was running another charity event through the club that I am a member of, I offered to help out. Peter and I discussed making Big Brothers, Big Sisters our charity partners, and I asked if we could support C.H.I.P.S. as well. Peter agreed.
