Variety Australia, inpartnership with Top Taste, is having their National Lamington Day (or rather week) this July.
Supporting Variety Australia is as easy as popping down to the local supermarket and picking up a pack of good old Top Taste Aussie lamingtons. (Lamingtons are actually a New Zealand creation but like all other successful New Zealand exports, we’ve decidedly made them our own).
Last years National Lamington Day was a huge gorging success, with Australia’s lamington eating public raising almost $37 000 for Variety Australias children in need.
Variety Australia is an organisation run to raise money to provide equipment and services to children with special needs.
They also provide disabled and disadvantaged children with access to life-enhancing activities and outings, through the programs Variety Work, Young Variety and Ladies of Variety, as well as holding annual Special Children’s Christmas Parties which host more than 32 000 children nationally every Christmas.
Well known Variety charity ambassadors include Heath Ledger, Marcia Hines, Tatiana Grigorieva, David Boon MBE, Merv Hughes, Ita Buttrose AO, OBE, and Barry Crocker AM.
Variety Australia National Lamington Day is on July 16 – 27.