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Yesterday, we went for the big fundraising event, Coleman Greig Challenge. This is the first time Harvest Collection took part in a big charity event, since we launched in June 2017. The money raised was used towards helping children in newborn care unit in Westmead Hospital, special needs students in Royal Institute of the Deaf and Blind, and St Gabriel school. We aimed to raise over $175K for the 3 charities. We put up the "I Conquer", "Caring For The Sick And The Broken" art prints, and the Brush Strokes bags for the silent auction. All three were done by...

Image courtesy of Coleman Greig On June 7th, 2017 I have had the honour to speak on behalf of St Gabriel school at Coleman Greig Challenge Launch event. I was asked to give an insight story to the sponsors about our journey with our son Jon, who goes to St Gabriel school and how the school has taken part in our journey as a family. A lot can be said about autism. Typically we would hear just the struggles of what this condition brings. But I wanted to focus on the identity of these children - who they are, what...

This week we have been honoured and privileged to have our story featured by The Hills Shire Times. Our illustrator Jonathan Sunarho, 9 years old, has fantastically cooperated with the paper's journalist, Bev Jordan and the talented photographer - Julian Andrews. Taking a good photo of a child is a pretty hard job, but Julian has managed to get all of Jon's photos looking wonderful and captured his persona really well. Bev interviewed us, my husband and I, on how we first found out about Jon's diagnosis and what life is like with autism. While Jon was drawing 'The Classroom'...