Old Wool Store to Reopen

In a big step forward, a contract to purchase the Old Wool Store in Hanson Street Kingston SE has been executed by the newly established Kingston Community Foundation. The property will be leased to a restauranteur to reopen the restaurant which has been closed for six years and has sadly been missed by the community.

On the 11th of April the new community group, which has been in preparation since

the 30th of April last year, will formally launch the Kingston Community Foundation in

the Old Wool Store premises.

The launch will be officially conducted by Ms Robyn Verrall, Chair of Regional

Development Australia Limestone Coast and Mrs Katherine McBride, Chair of the

Foundation. The Kingston Community Foundation Board members will be introduced to

the community at the launch.

This Foundation has three local beneficiaries – Kingston Soldiers Memorial Hospital,

Kingston Community School, and the Kingston SE Branch of the National Trust of

South Australia.

The Foundation is a Not-for-profit, non-taxable Foundation and is a registered

Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) charity, meaning donors will receive a tax deduction

for all donations made. A similar Foundation was established in Bordertown in 2009

and regularly distributes up to $50,000 annually to the Bordertown Memorial Hospital.

A co-founder of the Foundation, former accountant Mr Des Murray, said that this

arrangement means funds raised in the community, stay in the community, under the

management of a local volunteer Board of Directors. “This will save many man-hours

of fundraising in the future for our beneficiary organisations, which has become

increasingly difficult due to time constraints that everyone is facing in these times".

For more information, please contact either Des Murray or Phil Southam.

Des 0427 803 638 Secretary

Phil 0419 807 169 Treasurer

Email: contact@kingstoncommunityfoundation.au

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