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06.07.2009 | Paul Burt (Hot Tomato, Nine Gold Coast News and Gold Coast Bulletin) takes home the highly anticipated BIG MACCA – Gold Coast Personality of the Year.

About the GCM&CC

The Gold Coast Media & Corporate Club Inc. is a group of industry professionals who organise and run luncheons throughout the year to encourage communication among colleagues, to foster relations within the diverse business communities, enhance skills through guild-related speakers, raise funds for charity, and support members of the media and allied industries in times of financial need or medical crisis.

Our Charter:

"To raise funds for donation to such charities as shall be nominated by the association from time to time and to encourage, educate, entertain and support members in the interests of furthering professionalism. Funds raised at events may be allocated to members suffering severe financial hardship at the discretion of a unanimous decision of the committee.

Members are to be recruited from the media and associated industries. Media is to be defined as 'a means of communication that reaches the general public and usually carries advertising. This includes the finished product and pieces comprising it'."

Committee Members

  • President Ciara Barnett
    - ABsee media
  • Vice President Lauren Byers
    - NBN Television
  • Secretary John Warren
    - Sea FM
  • Treasurer Monique Anderson
    - Unit
  • Memberships Wayne Soutar
    - Soutar Video
  • Project Manager Kate Innes
    - Hello Marketing

On the Committee

  • Jacqui Vanzetten
    - 5 and a half
  • Chris May
    - Fairfax Media
  • Jeni Bone
    - Edit-it
  • Leona Kelly
    - SMEC
  • Fiona Neaves
    - Smart

Charities We Support

In past years, the GC Media & Corporate Club has raised thousands of dollars in funds for local charities, specifically related to children. In 2006, the nominated charity was RACQ CareFlight Queensland, 2007 the Club donated $5000 in equipment to the Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Nippers. In 2008 we donated to PCYC, 2009 we supported Aussie Kidz and this year we are proud to donate our proceeds at the end of the year to Bravehearts!!

Bravehearts is Australia's only children's charity holistically dedicated to the issue of child sexual assault. We offer comprehensive counseling and education for children and young people plus parental support for non-offending family members along with advocacy for adult survivors. Bravehearts also invests in extensive training and research developing strategies better able to combat the complex issues associated with child sexual assault.

Founded in 1997 by Executive Director Hetty Johnston, Bravehearts aims to forge a "movement for change" in how paedophilia is dealt with by the criminal justice sector, government and the community at large and to provide survivors with a voice.

As part of our initiative Bravehearts has a unique live interactive education program called "Ditto's Keep Safe Adventure" which we introduce to schools and day care centers teaching children personal safety.

Bravehearts has presented this program nationally to over 95,000 children and plans to educate many more children in the future. The program has been independently evaluated and the assessment indicates that it has the potential to reduce the incidence of child sexual assault by up to an astonishing 50%. Given the statistics that 1 in 5 children will be sexually assaulted by their 18th birthday, I am sure you will agree that this is an essential and powerful program.

Bravehearts is also active in making changes to legislation that fails to support the well-being of children, and our ultimate goal is to make Australia the safest place in the world to raise a child. For more information about these vital services that we offer the community, please visit www.bravehearts.org.au.

We hope to raise not only funds, but the profile of the Club among the Gold Coast and broader community via our members and their contacts in media.