Willy Wheatman Wheat Drive | Queensland Country Life - video Dailymotion

The Dalby and District Rugby Football Club is running a wheat drive to help fund a new playground.

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00:00The local Dolby Rugby Union Club, very proud club that I've been a part of.

00:03Probably been involved now for nearly 20 years as a player and then I got very sad when I stopped

00:08playing and lost a bit of connection and since my children have been playing I've got really

00:12back into it and been heavily involved with the club. It's a great community, it's a family

00:17and just a heap of great people that are involved in the club.

00:20This Willowbeam Wheat Drive is just an exciting idea to generate income for a project differently.

00:28So our project is a playground for the kids. So currently mums and dads they come,

00:34the kids have nowhere to go and they end up leaving before A grade or another game.

00:38So we want to put something in place where they can go and play and be more included in the club,

00:42so our family idea for our club. So we come up with the idea of a wheat drive,

00:46so a lot of our members are farmers so we're asking them to potentially donate

00:51maybe three to five tonne of their crop to our club and then we'll market it,

00:55sell it and then use those proceeds to build a playground. It's just really exciting and

01:00just a different way to look at fundraising. The playground, they're quite expensive,

01:03it's about 90 grand. We're getting some contribution from the club and the Allboys

01:06members so it's hard to quantify how much but we're just hoping that the drive will be really

01:11successful and get us to where we need to be. We have created an NGR for our club,

01:16so if people are delivering to the depot they can just transfer grain to us or we will run a truck

01:21or a few trucks around probably after harvest and we can pick it up too if you don't have a truck.