September 2010 Pinoy Football Aid has become a Association

From its humble beginning Pinoy Footaball Aid has grown and became an Incorporated Association. Fantastic achievement and is far more than what I ever ever expected when I began this program.
I will give you a bit of a detail on how this came about:
For the last 2 years I was trying to get a junior Filipino team to come and play football in the Kanga Cup. I did try to organise that with Manfred Schuwerk in Lapu Lapu, Cebu but he could not get sponsorship funds to cover the plane tickets so the idea kind of faded away. On the 10th of July straight after The Central Coast Mariners vs Canberra FC match I was having a beer and a little chat with Reg my good Filipino friend at the Club and "cried on his shoulder" and told him how much I would like to be able to bring one of Manfred's InterCebu FC Junior team to the Kanga Cup in the near future and how expensive it was pay for the airfares tickets etc. and I was looking for Ideas how to rise funds. So we bounced Ideas around to see what opportunities we could come up with and Reg said " Why don't we hold a Karaoke Competition, The Filipinos love Karaoke and that most likely will be a success" I got a huge smile on my face and said Yesssss that sound great...and that is how we proceeded to form a committee and Incorporate the Association.

Since we Incorporated set out the following fund raising activities for the next 9 month with all the proceeds to go towards covering the costs for a Filipino team to play in the 2011 Kanga Cup

Here are the activities we have Planned:

Bunning's Sausage Sizzle Stalls (as many we can get (dates TBA)

Christmas Stall at the Filippino Embassy (5th of December)

National Multicultural Festival stall (11-13 February

Karaoke Competition: 2 selection heats 19th and 26th of February and Final Show 5th of March 2011 held at Deakin Soccer Club)

Kanga cup 10-15 July 2011

I would like to invite anyone that to wants know more or wants to become a member of this Association please contact us:

pinoyfa@gmail.com or Ph: Sorin 6230 5030 Mobile 0409360636

Belwest Foxes Soccer Club kind donation on the 14th of August 2010

On the 9th of August got a call from Toni Dodd long serving Life member of the club letting me know that the club is happy to let us have the excess gear they have in their clubhouse and arranged for me to pick it up later that week. Saturday morning the 14th i went to the Latham Football Fields and met Toni and Stuart Boschert the Clubs Junior leagues Delegate and the Masters Men's Coordinator. On my arrival i was warmly welcomed by Toni and pointed to a mountain of stuff at the back of the club house by saying " good thing that you bring the Ute as I was worried that it will be too much for a sedan'' We did take some pictures of the gear with "Stewy" dressed in the clubs mascot ball attire. I want to mention that Toni was excited and pleased to see all that gear ending up being reused by the Filipino kids and made me feel very good to see that as well.
Well at last I have accounted of the donation and this is the figure 26 pairs of various sizes Football boots, 2 bags containing 24 used footballs and several boxes and bags containing 327 various sized and colours numbered and unnumbered tops that will soon be warn by the needy juniors.
On behalf of the Filipino kids I would like to thank the kind members of the Belwest Foxes Soccer Club for their generosity and Toni and Stewy for their warm hospitable manner.