The 2011 Kath­mandu Kids Fun­drasier has been a huge suc­cess. We raised over our ini­tial tar­get which means that sev­eral more ele­ments of edu­ca­tion can be added to the the exist­ing programmes.

Spe­cial thanks to the amaz­ing spon­sors who donated prizes, their time and their tal­ent to make it such a success.

Please sup­port our sponsors:

The Con­ser­va­tory Rooftop Bar www.theconservatory.net.au

Cap­tain Cook Cruises www.captaincookcruises.com.au

Acclaimed WA artist– Helen Nor­ton www.nortongallery.com.au

Pro­fes­sional Golf­ing Asso­ci­a­tion WA/NT www.pga.org.au/

The Cut Golf Course www.the-cut.com.au/

The Scene Team www.thesceneteam.com.au

Quay­west Bunker Bay Resort www.mirvachotels.com/QuayWest  

Venues West www.venueswest.wa.gov.au

AV Part­ners www.avpartners.com

Azzura Gelati www.azzuragelati.com.au/

The Bell Tower  www.thebelltower.com.au/

Dave Humphreys Events Man­age­ment and Consultancy

Frasers Restau­rant http://www.frasersrestaurant.com.au/

Ren­dezvous Obser­va­tion City www.rendezvoushotels.com/

Fre­man­tle Esplanade Hotel www.esplanadehotelfremantle.com.au/

Perth Con­ven­tion and Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre www.pcec.com.au

Phe­nom­e­non Cre­ative Event Ser­vices www.phenomenon.com.au

The West Coast Eagles www.westcoasteagles.com.au

Man­heim www.manheim.com.au

BBC Enter­tain­ment www.bbcentertainment.com.au/

Deray Sim­coe Pho­tog­ra­phy www.deraysimcoe.com.au

Con­cept Music www.conceptmusic.com.au

Ogden IFC www.creatingevents.com.au

The Monk Brew­ery www.themonk.com.au

The Cocoa Con­nec­tion Choco­late Work­shops www.thecocoaconnection.com.au

Hoyts Cin­e­mas www.hoyts.com.au/

Vil­lage Road­show www.village.com.au

Sandi Busio www.that-hat.com.au

Michelle Ella Mas­sage Ther­a­pist Belmont

Happy Dragon Chi­nese Restau­rant Balcatta

Mys­tic Moti­va­tion www.mysticmotivastion.com.au

Dymocks  www.dymocks.com.au/

Tick­ets are now on sale for this years Cock­tail Func­tion. The prizes and auc­tion items are com­ing in and will be updated as they come on board.

Click on the orange box on the right to book your tick­ets now!

Look through the web­site to see all the details! Make sure you don’t miss out on this years event. Last year sold out!

While we were in Nepal, we went to see the kids that were helped so much by your gen­eros­ity. We vis­ited The Sun­rise Children’s Orphan­age, The Kali­mati Slums and the school that we have made it pos­si­ble for these kids to attend.

It was a hum­bling expe­ri­ence to be wel­comed into these places. It was espe­cially reward­ing to know that our quiz night has made it pos­si­ble for their edu­ca­tion to con­tinue. We talked with Emma Tay­lor about strate­gies for the future and how the money raised can best be put to use. I am happy to say that we have made it a com­mit­ment to make the Kath­mandu Kids Quiz Night a yearly event. Tick­ets for the 2010 Quiz Night are now on sale!

And now the char­ity has achieved tax deductable sta­tus with the Aus­tralian Tax Office.

A spe­cial thank you once again to the 2009 spon­sors who helped us raise over $24,500.00 for these kids. A reminder that every dol­lar has gone to these kids. Sun­rise Children’s Orphan­age — under the guid­ance of Emma Tay­lor —  runs the pro­gramme as a part of their unpaid work. On top of send­ing the kids to school, there has also been two bam­boo class rooms built in the slums. These are for the kids who are too young to go to school or those who haven’t yet made the com­mit­ment to do the daily school atten­dance. Some funds are needed to facil­i­tate these class­rooms with books and pens which we will also be providing.

As a reminder, those spon­sors are:

• Are­nas West — Health Club Mem­ber­ships and Chris Isaak tickets
• Clever Starfish — did our amaz­ing website
• PCEC — donated Ry Cooder and Tori Amos tick­ets as well as wine
• Carne­gies Bar — who charged us noth­ing for the venue, and food and drink included in your table packages
• Helen Nor­ton — the won­der­ful art­work that was for auc­tion. Don’t miss her exhi­bi­tion on now!
• Blue­wa­ter Bar and Grill in Apple­cross for the Degus­ta­tion Dinner
• Red Pep­per Cater­ing for the Beau Rivage Restau­rant and trots package
• AV Part­ners for donat­ing the audio visual requirements
• Da Doo Ron Ron DJ Enter­tain­ment for addi­tional speakers
• Quay West Resort Bunker Bay for the stu­dio villa with breakfast
• Frasers Restau­rant for cook­ing lessons, celebrity plates, wine and a whole lot of other things
• Deray Sim­coe Pho­tog­ra­phy for the photo sit­ting and prints
• Lords in Subi­aco for health club mem­ber­ships and casual passes
• Man­heim­Fowles Auc­tion­eers for the car details
• Ultimo Cater­ing for the two car­tons of Red Dog Caber­net Merlot
• Liquor Barons Green Street Mount Hawthorn for a buck­et­load of wine and alco­hol related paraphernalia
• Mead­ow­brooke Estate for villa and breakfast
• Hilton Hotel for overnight accommodation
• Dave Mullen Wines for the car­ton of deluxe wines
• Melissa Harkins of Dymocks book stores for the raf­fle prize bundles
• David and Janet Hann who gen­er­ously are hav­ing a group of quizzers on their beau­ti­ful boat for a weekend
• Mike Dworkin for the Nepalese Art
• Arnya Tait for sev­eral silent auc­tion items and giveaways
• Todd Arbuckle and Karl Bullers- Man­ager and Owner of Carne­gies — for donat­ing the Aloha Ted’s surfboard
• Troy O’hern for the Den­nis Lillee signed and framed ball
• Lisa Cun­ning­ham of The David Wirra­panda Foun­da­tion for the per­son­ally signed Eagles Jumper
• Perth Wild­cats for the signed ball and cap
• Perth Glory for the signed ball
• Phe­nom­e­non Event Ser­vices — for fur­ni­ture, orga­niz­ing and manpower

Once again, many thanks for your assis­tance in help­ing these kids have a bet­ter chance.

Yours sin­cerely,
Paul Cum­ming

15th Sep­tem­ber; A mas­sive thank you to all who donated money and goods, those who attended the quiz and the vol­un­teers who gave so much time to make our goal a real­ity. Here’s to the first step of mak­ing a real dif­fer­ence in these kids lives!

4th Sep­tem­ber; With only 10 days to go, every­thing is hap­pen­ing very quickly. We have had a surge of very gen­er­ous sup­port from fan­tas­tic peo­ple to give auc­tion items, prizes and assis­tance to all make this night hit it’s $15,000 target.

VIP tables have been sell­ing like hot cakes and will be sold out shortly. Don’t for­get if you intend going to the quiz, you must book nad pay for your table before hand. Just put your details in the web­site on the link uner the photo of Carne­gies and we’ll get in touch for credit card details. Remem­ber, every cent goes to the slum kids education!

This week we saw some great auc­tion items com­ing through. Remem­ber you can bid on a lot of these items NOW on this web­site under the auc­tion tab at the top of the page.

They include:

Janet and David Hann very kindly offered to have guests on their 44 foot, 6/8 berth ketch as an incen­tive for peo­ple to donate lots of money to the cause. This will be an auc­tion item. Helen Nor­ton, renowned Aus­tralian Artist, (and my favourite) has agreed to donate some of her works for auction.

Are­nas West has kindly given exclu­sive tick­ets and pre show func­tion tick­ets to Chris Isaak at Chal­lenge Sta­dium on the 17th Sep­tem­ber. As well as 2 x 6 month mem­ber­ships to their Health Club.

Perth Con­ven­tion Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre has donated dou­ble tick­ets to the upcom­ing Tori Amos andthe Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe concerts.

Lords Health Club has donated 3 x 3month full mem­ber­ships to their health club.

A signed Perth Glory Ball

A night in a Stu­dio Villa with Break­fast at Bunker Bay Resort Dunnesborough

A degus­ta­tion din­ner at Blue­wa­ter Bar and Grill

An overnight stay at Mead­ow­brooke Estate with Brreakfast

An Sun­day night stay at The Parmelia Hilton

2 x Din­ner for 4 includ­ing entry to the trots and a race­book at Beau Rivage restaurant

And much more.….

It is very excit­ing to have this web­site up and run­ning. A huge thank you to Clever Starfish for donat­ing their time and host­ing the site for us. Time is against us, but if a lot of peo­ple can give a lit­tle, then we’ll reach our $15,000 tar­get hope­fully by the end of the quiz on Sep­tem­ber 14th. Feel free to book a table or make a dona­tion through the link on this site. Any dona­tions for silent auc­tion and auc­tion items are more than welcome!

Here we go!