Category Archives: Fundraising Events

Raffle success!

Many thanks to Mike Murphy Real Estate, Te Arai Links, Pukekohe East School families and Pukekohe Golf Club members for all the amazing mahi to help raise more than $4,000 for the Pukekohe East Primary School Bus! The winner of the amazing four-ball raffle prize to Te Arai Links is ticket number: 0027 🚌

Every $ goes towards keeping school bus operations running in its 80th anniversary of the service (especially with rising diesel costs!). We are one of three school buses in the country that is operated by parent volunteers and is 100% community funded. We can’t thank everyone enough for all the support! 🚌

Thank you | 80th anniversary Bus Bingo

We are so incredibly grateful to all the generous businesses, local community and school families who supported our 80s glitz and glam bus bingo fundraising event on the weekend!

The generous donations have helped us to create a fantastic lineup of bingo, raffle and auction prizes and experiences, and your support means the world to our school community. We had a full house of guests in their 80s outfits (sequins, neon, glitter, wigs, side pony tails and more!) enjoying a night of music bingo, pizza, grazing platters and drinks.

All your generosity has made a real difference. Preliminary numbers for the fundraising is $4,100 raised! Every dollar goes towards keeping the Pukekohe East School Bus running in it’s 80th year.

Thank you for helping us make this event a success—we couldn’t do it without you! 💛🚌🎉

Bogan Bingo was a rocking success

Thanks to everyone who came along with their red and black flannel shirts, wigs, real mullets and rock tees to help us fundraise bogan style on Saturday night!

We had a hall full of rockers for drinks, dinner, musical bingo and some epic raffles and silent auctions!

Congrats to all the winners on the night. All in all, we are chuffed to raise close to $4,000! Every $ goes towards keeping the school bus running (since 1946 in fact!) so a huge thank you to everyone especially in a tough economic environment and ongoing cost of living pressures.

Many thanks also to our sponsors, supporters and wider community (the full list is below).

And another massive thank you to our bus society team members for putting on the event and to our driver for driving guests in our ‘party’ bus (all are volunteers and families of the school – so we couldn’t do this without you all).

Stay tuned for next year’s event as the Bus Society celebrates 80 yrs since launching the first school bus service for our school!