Push Ups for Charity!

Last Saturday 27^th November was the first-ever Push Ups for Charity (PUC) event here at Golds, raising funds for Make A Wish Foundation. With about 25 people in attendance and 15 keen push uppers, all aiming to bust out as many push ups in 90 seconds as they could – it was a great morning!

Push Uppers in action !

The PUC fundraiser was held around Australia with nearly 50 locations and around 700-800 participants all getting up and out there on Saturday to get fit, have some fun and give something to children with life-threatening illnesses. As a new charity event, it’s a fantastic way of raising funds and heart rates – and seriously, what other fundraiser could be over in just 90 seconds?? It was great stuff and happy to say we’ll need more people for next year when we run it!

In total here in Surry Hills we had 23 participants. Saturday was our main event, marked with speeches from both myself and Caz Lederman from Make a Wish, who told her very heartfelt story of how the charity has helped her niece. I think that helped inspire a few extra pushups when we ‘dropped and did 90 (seconds)” shortly after!

When all were done and the count was tallied, we’d completed over 1300 pushups, with preliminary reports that we’ve raised over $4000!

Whilst there were some notable performances (Mark Inwood best male 114, Lisa Aronson best female 57 on the toes!), Make A Wish foundation and the children they support were ultimately the winners.

Special mentions to Mark Inwood as well for convincing a number of his clients and even his Monday night Blitz class to participate! Francois Deacon for his event photography on the day, Leah Hanchard for helping with the materials and information packs for everyone, and Ian Barnett for a generous donation.

Caz Lederman from Make A Wish shares her story 

I’d like to see the next PUC be even bigger and better with more Gold’s members either doing a push up or 2 for charity, or getting in and sponsoring! There’s no restriction on entering and it’s certainly not a competition – heck even my mother got in on it having not done a push up in many years (I’m not at liberty to mention how many years, but she did manage 24 pushups!! We’ll be able to make a great donation to charity like this first event, and next time show that Surry Hills is THE best in Oz J

Fantastic work to all the participants, sponsors and donors !! You pulled out an enormous effort and should all be proud of yourselves.