FRIENDS, VOLUNTEERS & SPONSORS Myall Park Botanic Garden is owned and run as a community project by  MPBG Ltd, a non-profit company of volunteers.    We thank all the generous Volunteers, Friends and Sponsors for their help.    Many individuals and groups help us in the Garden. We welcome your queries, ideas or offers.   Your visits to our Garden help us with essential maintenance. You can also help by joining our Friends, coming to our working bees, or purchasing our merchandise.

 

The Volunteers Meet the Directors and Managers of Myall Park Botanic Garden Ltd, volunteers who donate thousands of hours to the Garden each year, working from their homes as well as travelling long distances to attend meetings and working bees on site.
Dorinda Schwennesen Chairman, Director	Betty Salter Director, Company  Treasurer, Friends Manager	Garth Shaw Director
Ted Gibbons Director, Company Secretary	Ann Gibbons Director	Gill Kidd Director, Living Collection Manager
Nita Lester Director, Education & Research  Manager	Megan McNicholl Director, Marketing Manager	Carol McCormack Director, Vice-Chairman
Priscilla Mundell Director	Lyn Reilly Director	Peter Reilly Director, Vice-Chairman

Sue Reilly Director, Art & Gallery Manager	Trevor Bacon Director

Much of the time, our wonderful staff members act as volunteers too -

Janine Pechey Administrative assistant	Sue Siganto Tourism Officer
Garry & Wendy Greenwood Honorary caretakers

Friends  of MPBG

Friends' subscriptions help our voluntary organisation to survive, and are used to preserve, maintain and develop the Garden. A subscription form appears on our brochure.

Click here to view our 2-page brochure. Feel free to print a copy for your friends.

Donations over $2 made out to our Gift Fund are tax deductible. 

We also receive valuable hands-on help from our Friends in many ways. Director Peter Reilly organises a wonderful group of Friends to visit annually during autumn to spend several days toiling in the Garden. This is help that really makes a visible difference! If you'd like to join in, call Peter on 07 5537 3354.  Watch our "latest news" page or the Friends newsletter for details

Various SGAP groups also assist. (See Qld Society for Growing Australian Plants at www.sgapqld.org.au

We encourage our Friends to take responsibility for certain areas of the Garden. To find out more, please email us.

Friends benefits include a regular newsletter with botanical and horticultural information, free entry to the Garden,  accommodation discounts, plus invitations to field days, workshops, art exhibitions and other functions. 

All enquiries to Friends Manager

Email

We are constantly amazed at the generosity of our Friends and many others who visit the Garden, and take this opportunity to say thank you!

We would like to thank the following for their recent help:

• Joan Wilkinson, Kathryn Nicholls, Alison Bailey and the estate of the Late Alan and Beryl May - for their very generous donation.

• Negri - http://www.negriaustralia.com.au we are delighted with our new mulcher! Click here for photos

Other  helpers include:

• FRRR

• Rhino Web Designs: www.rhinodesigns.com.au 

• Envirotuff Tanks

• Grainco

• InterNational Park Tours

• Sunrover Tours

• Gaming Machines Community Benefit Fund

• Envirofund

• GVEHO

• National Heritage Trust 

• Regional Arts Development Fund

• Regional Arts Fund

Thanks to Adrienne Williams http://www.seesawdesign.com.au/ and Karen Smith for illustrations and words from our interpretive signs that we use on this website and other interpretive information.

We would also like to thank all photographers whose work has brightened up our website.

Donations of cash and kind supplement our earned income from visitor services and marketing, and we seek grant funding for projects we have sufficient human resources to handle. 

Please contact us for details

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