hardout community services

Hardout Community Services are proud to partner with Logan City Council as part of National Youth Week.  We will be running two activities this year.  On Monday April 12 we have the Hardout High School Touch Tournament at Mabel Park State High School.  On Saturday April 17 we are running the Hardout High School 3on3 competition at Marsden State High School.

So check out the links and the youth week page for more details.  We are putting together two great days of fun and actitivities.  So get some friends and family together and form a team.

If you have any questions you can contact us from our contact us page.

The shipping container arrived just before Christmas and the aid on board has been distributed over the last several weeks in affected areas.  Because of the generous support of our sponsors like Agility we were able to get the aid to where it needed to go.

Because of the generous support of the community through activities such as Touch 4 Samoa and donations from various schools and other organisations we were able to donate $5000 AUD which converted to 10,700 WST.  The money will be used to purchase further materials to support the community as it continues the reconstruction process.

If you would like to read more please follow this link.

We regret to let you all know that the due to things out of our control we have cancelled the Touch Tournament scheduled for the 23rd of January.

We hope to have others down the track please keep an eye on this website for details in the near future.

Well, it’s not really tv but it is the next best thing.  Highlights from the finals in the Under 15 and Mixed Adults games are now available to see on YouTube.  You can check out the links here.

Every week we our resident fitness expert Alec Fata will be posting health and fitness tips to the PHATS page.  PHATS stands for Peoples Health And Training Support.

Alec is currently playing in the Queensland Cup and just finished  running a twelve week challenge in Logan City which involved weekly workouts, weigh ins and a couple of weekend boot camps on the beach to help improve peoples fitness.

At Hardout we believe in putting in the hard yards so that we can improve our lifestyles and have a healthier community.

For those of you wanting to burn off the Christmas goodies the good folks at Hardout are announcing the next Hardout  Touch Tournament.  It will be held on January 23 which is a Saturday.

We will have competition for the under 15’s, mixed adults, mens and for the first time have added a mixed comp for the over 35’s.  Registration can be found here and this time around it will be a flat $150 per team registration with teams having between 10 and 14 players.  Payment this time will be done via PayPal and you will be able to use a Visa or Mastercard or direct debit through your PayPal account at the time of registration.

We got a lot of feedback after Touch 4 Samoa about how families appreciated the face painting and other activities for the kids.  We will have the face painting and jumping castles again for the kids.

We will also be firing up the barbie again with the sausage sizzle and hamburgers with lots of drinks available to help all the participants to cope with the heat.

We would love you to get a team together and get involved and keep checking back for updates over the coming weeks.

Massive thanks need to go the students and staff of Years 8 & 9 from Forest Lake State High School who donated over 1500 cans and around 100 litres of water and lots of flour, sugar and rice.  You can check out the photos here.

Just a reminder to all that we are packing the shipping container this Saturday before its epic journey.  We will be packing the container from 9.30 till around 1pm at 3 Akora St, Slacks Creek.  So we would love to see you all with some gear for Samoa.

We will be having a sausage sizzle as part of the festivities to feed the hungry horde that will help us pack the container.

We look forward to seeing you then!

If you read the post below you will find out that we have found out that the biggest needs we have for the shipping container is for bulk food.  I currently have a price of $9.50 for a 12.5 kg bag of plain flour.  I will be calling more places in the morning.  There are 100 bags per pallet.  We can do a half a pallet.  I will be following up the cost of water tomorrow and will post that as soon as we know.

We4 have already had $100 donated specifically to this cause.  So if you can afford to please get on board.  If you go to the Contact Us page you can leave a comment and we will tell you how you can put the money in our account.

We have just in the last couple of hours received news from our contacts in Samoa as to where the real need currently is.  They have a real need for water, rice, flour and brown sugar.

We are currently attempting to get some prices for bulk of these items.  IF you have not purchased anything for the appeal yet we would welcome your donations of money.  As soon as we get the prices we will post them so as a family you may have enough money donate a couple of 10kg bags of rice etc.