Community
10 May, 2024
Guides want your cans
CAMPERDOWN’S Girl Guides have begun collecting cans and bottles to raise funds for their Guide Hall and are calling on residents to donate their unwanted cans.
The fundraiser launched in April and is already up to close to $70 worth of bottles.
The group is collecting any can, bottle or carton with the 10c mark on it, which are eligible for the Container Deposit Scheme in Victoria.
Lids can be left on the containers, but they must not be crushed.
Guide leader Glenda McIlveen said the Camperdown Girl Guides are offering to collect the containers from the homes of people within Camperdown.
“We’d be happy to pick them up from people, but there’s a minimum of 50,” she said.
“If, for some reason, you’ve got no transport, then we’ll have some come to pick them up.
“It helps everybody too. We win both ways.”
Other drop-off options include on Mondays between 3.30pm and 5.15pm, or into one of the collection barrels located at the back of the Guide Hall at 251 Manifold Street.
Ruth Barber, mother of Guide members Grace and Olivia Barber, said anyone interested in dropping off containers can contact the Guides through their Facebook page.
“We encourage people to drop off cans during a session or on a Monday,” she said.
“We’re also reaching out to the businesses as well – the pubs, the bakeries and all that – if they want to collect, we’ll be happy to talk to them for a regular pick up.
“It’s just an easy way for our fundraising efforts.
“It’s mainly the running costs to hold Guides, but also the wonderful facility. It’s also to maintain this facility for the community if they want to hire it.”
The Camperdown Guides are also looking into working with the Rotary Club of Camperdown, who will collect containers at their stall at the monthly Sunday markets.
This will be in addition to their other collections of bread tags, old glasses, blister packs, batteries, hearing aids, used stamps, plastic lids and old phones.