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Members of the Rotary Club of Fortitude Valley are planning to make 2008 the year of Community Bank® in their region.
A steering committee has been formed in partnership with Bendigo Bank, and is campaigning for the establishment of a Community Bank® branch in Fortitude Valley. The aim of the project is to provide sustainable support for community projects in the Valley, such as the work of the Club’s Community Service Partners, who provide valuable services for the homeless and less fortunate in Fortitude Valley, New Farm and surrounds.
A Community Bank® branch will provide the Fortitude Valley community with a superior banking service. It not only offers all banking and finance products and services but gives back to the community a significant percentage of the branch profits.
Local support from business owners and residents is sought by way of shares, with profits divided between shareholders and the local community. We need the support of as many local people as possible to pledge their support to become a shareholder and also a customer.
There are 30 communities in Queensland and over 200 communities throughout Australia which have established their own Community Bank® branch.
In the past nine years the Community Bank® branches have:
- Returned more than $16.8 million to local communities and projects;
- Paid more than $12 million in dividends to more than 50,000 local shareholders;
- Spent almost $50 million in their local communities on salaries, rent, cleaning and other operating costs; and
- Conducted more than $10 billion of banking business.
Better Banking – Better Business – Better Community
- For further information on the project, or to play a part in the project, please contact:
Ian Peel 0419 643 669
Debra Fallon 0411 490 842
Jim Corser 07 3862 1222
Julie Heckenberg 0419 271 853
Graham Liddle 0403 046 200
or click here to go to our information request page.
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