{"id":33094,"date":"2013-05-13T22:52:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=33094"},"modified":"2020-08-21T18:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:52:36","slug":"7m-raised-for-flying-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/05\/13\/7m-raised-for-flying-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"$7m Raised For Flying Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May 13, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ergon Energy customer donations to the Royal Flying Doctor Service have reached an amazing $7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The donations have been made by regional Queenslanders via their power bills over the past 13 years.<\/p>\n<p>Regional breakdown by number of customers making a pledge to the RFDS (as at April, 2013).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Far North Queensland 18,003<\/li>\n<li>North Queensland 21,365<\/li>\n<li>Central Queensland 20,114<\/li>\n<li>Mackay 11,496<\/li>\n<li>Wide Bay (which includes South Burnett) 19,492<\/li>\n<li>South West Queensland 18,746<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ergon Energy Chief Executive Ian McLeod congratulated donors for their inspirational demonstration of community spirit towards a vital and worthy cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur customers have maintained an extraordinary level of generosity which results in about $800,000 raised each year,\u201d Mr McLeod said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErgon is committed to its community partnership with the RFDS by providing the means for customers to show their support which is vital to keeping the Flying Doctor flying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through the scheme customers can contribute via regular donations through their quarterly bill, or make larger one-off donations if they wish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cErgon employees have also played a fantastic role in the fundraising effort via their payroll deductions. We\u2019re all very proud to continue to support the great work of the RFDS,\u201d Mr McLeod said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information about Ergon Energy\u2019s voluntary donation scheme phone 13-10-46.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ergon Energy customer donations to the Royal Flying Doctor Service have reached an amazing $7 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[32],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>$7m Raised For Flying Doc - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/05\/13\/7m-raised-for-flying-doc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"$7m Raised For Flying Doc - 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