Runaway Bay VIEW Club

We started the year in February with our Annual General Meeting and, with members dressed in pink and red, a luncheon that was all about Valentine’s Day. 

Accompanying photo of our Members with the February birthday Members on the right

In January 2026 we held a successful pop-up stand in Runaway Bay Shopping Centre to raise the profile of our club, launch our Quilt raffle and chat to potential members. 

Thanks to Maggie who helped out in the morning session

Twenty Two members of Runaway Bay VIEW joined members from the other seven Gold Coast clubs for another very successful Zone QC Christmas Wrapping event.

Thank you to Lorraine Thomson and Evelyn Berg for their coordination and management of the event, to those who volunteered and to Westfield Helensvale allowing us the opportunity to support The Smith Family each year. The event raised an amazing $15,728.29.

Our final meeting of the year was a Christmas affair with everyone dressed to match!  Fifteen hampers put together by our fabulous Dulcie, made from donations from members over the past few months, were the highlight along with a Secret Santa.

Thank you to all our members who have supported our Club this year and enabled us to support our 18 Learning for Life Students.

We recently held our Christmas social lunch event for members, family and friends at a local Italian Restaurant, Portofino. 

The food and ambience were amazing and thanks to John for providing the entertainment.

Our annual Fashion Parade was the largest fund raiser for the year. Held at the lovely Rebecca’s home, with support from Destani Fashions at Helensvale and entertaining from Jack Watson, over 70 members and friends had a fabulous day.

The accompanying photos show some of the beautiful fashions.

Our annual Trivia night is one of two major fundraisers for our Club.  With close to 100 members and guests attending and with support from Runaway Bay Junior Rugby Leagues Club and many other supporters, the night is lots of fun.

Our High Tea fundraiser in May was a great success.  Accompanying photos show all our lovely ladies and the 3 beautiful gift baskets made by Judy as raffle prizes and the lucky winners.

May was a busy month for birthday celebrations and our Zone Councillor, Di, spoke to our Members and presented service pins.

Accompanying photo is of Di presenting 20 year pins to Susan and Rebecca.and birthday cake cutting.

In May we used grant funds to engage an experienced trainer to run IT training to build confidence and capacity of our Committee to carry out their roles and access and use the VIEW website and resources.