I've been talking to a few people about promotions and also spoke to somebody who volunteers in Tassie. Getting a better idea of what they need and it's starting to feel more than a little ambitious. At a national level if somebody dropped $1 million in their hands they'd say thanks but really it doesn't make much difference. The sort of funding they need can only really come from government.
All the fund raising seems to be concentrated at the local level like individual volunteer brigades might raise money for their fire station or their area. Even at the state level it seems to be up to government to give them the money they need.
So I'm always open to suggestions but I'm thinking it might be better to try and raise money for our local brigades wherever they happen to be. Or pick one you like. The math just doesn't seem to work otherwise.
I have no idea how much we can get for a hand-built custom one-off guitar at auction. FrankenWashie can probably get $5k or more for some of the work I've seen him do. That's almost pointless when you spread across an entire state/territory but it would be a huge deal to a local volunteer brigade.
Hi team, just registered and in the process of working with Andre to sort a custom ST-1 JR hardtail for my little guy. I’ve got access to people at Everyday Hero and Neto e-commerce if you’re looking at straight up sale. eBay is a good suggestion for an auction. We could go lean on this and throw up a basic “register your interest” website to see how much traction we could gain before we need to make those decisions.
I haven't had any time to look into the auctions or selling side of things. I've been busy working in an evacuation centre down in Cooma and I thought I might be able to source some timber while I was there.
I had a team of ADF personnel there for a couple of weeks and thought they might be able to help me get some timber but they were a medical team not working with the engineers. The RFS were too busy actually fighting the fires so I wasn't going to bug them. Plenty of evacuees came to the centre but I wasn't going to ask somebody whose house just burnt down if I could get some timber from them.
On a good note though we had an old acoustic guitar donated by a lady from Red Cross for a young boy whose family lost everything. The guitar had a broken nut so I took it to the local music shop and asked them to fix it and I'd pay whatever. They just gave me a brand new Valencia and said "there you go all fixed". Gobsmacked.
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