Cooroibah charity Sunshine Butterflies given a $20,000 lift for a $500,000 planned expansion

A Sunshine Coast disability service has launched an ambitious expansion bid worth $500,000 to help provide housing for the community’s most vulnerable members.

Sunshine Butterflies team members Ali Kelly McCudden, Leanne Walsh, Heather Anderson and Lucy Mills with Chris Caldwell of Lift Brands.

Cooroibah disability support service Sunshine Butterflies has launched an ambitious $500,000 fundraising effort to spread its wings by buying out the four hectare neighbouring property to triple in size.

Already the campaign has profited from a $20,000 donation from Lift Brands Asia Pacific – part of the world’s largest wellness franchise organisation.

The planned expansion of the farm-based Our Backyard operations will enable Sunshine Butterflies to provide small-scale, residential supported homes for the most vulnerable members of the community as well more programs, services and activities for those living with disability.

Sunshine Butterflies is lifted by the donation of $20,000 from Lift Brands Asia Pacific.

“A huge thank you to the Lift Brands APAC team and CEO Chris Caldwell for their incredible generosity towards a life changing project for people living with disability and their families,” said Sunshine Butterflies founder and CEO Leanne Walsh.

The donation came after the Sunshine Butterflies crew joined more than 300 staff from the Lift Brands APAC network for the company’s team-building summit.

“Our team had such a great time watching the Lift Brands APAC staff compete in a modern-day version of It’s a Knockout,” Ms Walsh said.

“A huge thank you to the Lift Brands APAC team and CEO Chris Caldwell for their incredible generosity towards a life changing project for people living with disability and their families.”

Mr Caldwell said the company partnered with Sunshine Butterflies over three years to raise $45,000.

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