Parents & Friends Association
The Parents and Friends Association is quite different to what parents may have experienced at their child’s primary school. The Daramalan P&F provides an opportunity for involvement in the life of the College and contribution to the school community.
The P&F manage the operation of the College Canteen and the Uniform Shop. The P&F also provide a forum for parents to share their views on various matters.
The 2024 P&F committee consists of:
- President – Mrs Rachael Axford
- Vice President – Mrs Amanda Curran
- Treasurer – Mr Charles Stephenson
- Secretary – Ms Sandra Fisher
- APFACTS representative – Mr Stephen Dunkerley
The P&F meet at least once each term and communication between meetings is via email.
2025 Meetings
- Wednesday 19 March (AGM) – 6.30pm in the main Boardroom
- Wednesday 14 May – 6.30pm in the main Boardroom
- Wednesday 13 August – 6.30pm in the main Boardroom
- Wednesday 05 November– 6.30pm in the main Boardroom
Everyone is welcome at all meetings. For further enquiries please contact pandf@daramalan.act.edu.au
How can you participate?
- Attend P&F meetings
- Contribute to the decisions about how to spend the P&F levy. The P&F directs its funds towards special projects within the College. Recent projects have been a contribution towards the refurbishment of the McMahon Quad, a contribution towards the construction of our new Issoudun Performing Arts Centre and more recently the purchase of a new 24-seater bus. In past years P&F funds were used to assist in the building of a new canteen for students and other capital projects.
- The proceeds from the sale of any second-hand uniforms in the uniform shop are donated to the Scholarship Fund to help provide financial assistance to eligible families whose situation would exclude them from giving their child an MSC (Missionaries of the Sacred Heart) education. Please remember to donate any outgrown or unused school uniforms to the uniform shop.
- Volunteer to help on Sacred Heart Day
- Volunteer to help at the Charity Walk
The annual fundraising activity of the P&F was, until 2007, the annual walk by the students around Canberra’s Lake Burley Griffin which raised money by individual sponsorships of each student. This fundraising method has now been replaced by a levy within the school fees for the Parents and Friends.
In 2008, the Kilothon – as the walk was called – was still a P&F activity but all the proceeds were donated to charity. he Catholic charities “McKillop House” and the “St Nick’s Young Carers Program, St Vincent de Paul Society” have been the recipients over the last few years.