National Partnerships
Meet Pam Ryan, our highest fundraising team member
Pam Ryan (Team Member) from
Officeworks Nowra (NSW) is
one of many passionate team
members and has consistently
helped her store to make big
contributions to our appeals.
Pam has shared some tips
on how to engage with our
customers during the appeal:
• Be grateful for all donations big or small,
every little bit really does add up.
• Be passionate about what you’re doing and
genuine in how you ask. Find out about the
causes we support so you can be confident
when asking.
• Simply ask customers but don’t be pushy, its
ok if a customer doesn’t want to donate.
Pam also said ‘for me, I totally believe in the
fundraiser. Children deserve the right to an
education and a good life. Given a chance
like this a child can draw on the experience
throughout their lives and so make a difference
to them for the rest of their lives. I do believe
children are our future.
We have a great community in Nowra who
understand the importance of our children.
They get behind it with pride. Being a small
store and raising what we did shows this.’
Peter Manning (Store Business Manager,
Officeworks Nowra) also had this to share on
Pam’s achievement:
‘Pam has worked tirelessly over the BTS period,
doing her best and inspiring others to help
make bigger things happen for The Smith
Family. Pam, who works four days a week,
has single-handedly raised over $6600 for
the Back to School Appeal. She has always
been a leader in the store when it comes to
community contributions, but this year Pam
wanted to out-do the excellent results she
achieved last year, to help the store beat its
target as well as contributing to the national
target of 1000 sponsorships.
Each morning before she commenced, Pam
would check in with the SLT for a daily update,
she would then talk to all the team members
who were at POS or using Mobile POS to fire
them up for another big day. She made sure
that there were cards at each of the registers.
Pam, without fail, over the time of the appeal
has asked 100 per cent of the customers she
served, and she made sure that those that
were working beside her were also asking.’
NSW 1 — our highest fundraising region
Quinn Hutchens (Store Business Manager)
from Officeworks Five Dock (NSW) did a
fantastic job, leading the NSW1 team to
achieve the results they did and had this to
share with the team:
‘NSW1’s passion and determination to
support disadvantaged students through
sponsorships for their education was nothing
short of AMAZING. Last year, NSW1 only raised
$47,670 and we felt that we could do more to
help make bigger things happen within the
community space. This year we set ourselves
targets throughout the appeal and with
daily focus being driven by myself and Tracy
Reynolds (Area Manager — NSW 1) and we
were able to achieve record breaking results
that have never been achieved before in the
history of Officeworks.
result especially given we are one of the
smallest area groups with only 12 stores.
With a target of 98 students to sponsor, we
wanted to exceed this target to support as
many students as possible. Not only did we break through over $100k
raised and exceeded our student sponsorship
but we also finished first nationally as an area
group and we had four stores Lewisham,
Greenacre, Punchbowl and Nowra finish in the
top five.’
As an area group, NSW1 raised $104,864 and
sponsored 168 students — exceeding our
target by 70 students — which is a fantastic Well done Quinn, Tracy and all of the NSW
1 team members on this outstanding
achievement.
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