Phuket Community Foundation

Dear All of you Ducky Players!!!

Here are the Prizes you will receive if you are the Lucky Winner!!

To have more chance to win buy more tickets and you can have more Ducks! Tickets are only 200 baht each!!

PCF President Pranee Sakulpipatana recently delivered more than 30 medical textbooks and encyclopedias to the Rajabhat Phuket University library. The books were donated by Dr. Ong Tat Lien from Malaysia.

Pictured, from left, Roongprakai Sang-In, PCF manager, and Ajarn Pranee with the university’s three librarians, Malin  Sa-gniamkul, Aussana  Kraireuk and Arom Somjai.

The numbers are finally in. The PCF realised a net income of just under B600,000 baht from Race Day 2011. Here’s the breakdown:

• Donations/sponsorships/race fees/coupon sales:                           B499,243
• Duck race ticket sales:                                                               B224,100
• Total income:                                                                                B723,343
• Expenditure:                                                                                 B124,414
• Net income:                                                                              B598,929

We spent a further B25,500 on “capital”  items (such as rubber ducks) which can be reused next time, so this cost is not included in the final figures for the day.

Also not included is the value of donations in kind, such as Laguna Phuket allowing us to use the Latitude marquee and building the duck machine; and the prizes for the duck race. The prizes alone were valued at a total of B1.4 million.

The event was bigger and considerably more effective in fund-raising terms than the event in November 2009, when the net income was around B150,000. This year the PCF sold 1,494 duck race tickets, compared with 1,000 at the previous event.

Finally, we need to ask you for a favour: We have already made a list of things that did not work so well, but we need feedback from people who took part or just came along to enjoy the day. Don’t worry about offending us – criticism is valuable to us if we are to go on improving the event. Please send your comments by email to director@phuketcharity.org

PCF Race Day has had some great coverage on the web, with hundreds of photos and some fun vids. Click on the links below for just some of these. We’re also all over Facebook.

Expect to see post-Race Day coverage in the Phuket Gazette and The Phuketian and, we’re sure many other local publications.

• http://www.phuketcharity.org/pcf-race-day-2011/
• http://phuketnews.phuketindex.com/lifestyle/pcf-race-day2011-183821.html
• http://picasaweb.google.com/island.life.photos/PHUKETCOMMUNITYFOUNDATIONSGREATRUBBERDUCKRACETHERACEISHELDEACHYEARTORAISEFUNDS#
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-MFPBj-8zs
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bYInwMtLo4
• http://www.phuketbestevent.com/Phuket-Event-Gallery/115.html
• http://www.phuketgazette.net/tv/details.asp?id=1681

Here they are: The winners of the Duck Race!!

If you have not yet collected your prize, please contact us by email to manager@phuketcharity.org or by calling 08 1851 2280 or 08 4629 6112.