Community coming together over the long weekend to support FightMND through various Big Freeze events. Mathoura Football Netball Club is hosting a FightMND event on Sunday, June 7, featuring activities like barbecue, a jumping castle and a dunk tank.
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Jordan Townrow
The Big Freeze pushes motor neurone disease into the spotlight.
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This long weekend, our community is getting together to FightMND with a few Big Freeze events.
Mathoura Football Netball Club
Mathoura Football Netball Club will host a FightMND event on Sunday, June 7, at Mathoura Recreation Reserve from 1pm to 4pm.
The event will feature a bar, barbecue, jumping castle and fake tattoos for the kids, lucky number boards, meat tray raffle and many more activities.
Mathoura president Blake Keech said the decision to hold the fundraiser became personal for the club.
“The league sent us a thing that if you have an MND event, you can win tickets, and as a club, we were like, ‘Nah, we won't do that’,” he said.
“Then in the meantime, one of our committee members flew up to the Gold Coast, where he used to live, to go to one friend's funeral who had died of MND.
“Then the next week, he went to one of his best mates' fundraisers who had just been diagnosed with MND, so he had been affected twice by it during the week.”
The club is organising a dunk tank as the main attraction.
“We have put out some nomination forms, but we are unsure who is actually going in the dunk tank at the moment,” Mr Keech said.
“I'm going to try and get at least one player from each senior team and then a couple of committee members would be great.”
All proceeds will go to FightMND, with merchandise also available for purchase.
Echuca Moama Big Freeze
Echuca Moama Big Freeze will be on at Rich River Golf Club, Twenty Four Lane, Moama, on Monday, June 8 with all the action starting from 11.30am.
The main attraction of the day will be the Big Freeze slide, but there's plenty more happening to make it a great community event.
Activities include a golf tournament with the chance to win a brand new MG HS Super Hybrid car, thanks to Echuca MG in the hole-in-one competition, a 100m sprint down the 18th hole in a Dash for Cash and a junior golf clinic running from 11.30am.
Play mini golf from 11.30am to 3.30pm with all proceeds going to the cause, there will be family-friendly activities such as jumping pillow and Tex Mechanic Bull, EDGE FM will be broadcasting live or enjoy a barbecue and the bar while watching Collingwood and Melbourne live on the big screen.
Courtesy buses will be available on the day, with bookings required through reception on 5481 3333.
More information and registration details are available at richriver.com.au or on Facebook at Big Freeze Echuca/Moama or Instagram at bigfreeze.echucamoama
Naomi Beasley, Dee Armstrong and Lisa Leeds promote the Echuca Moama Big Freeze event at Rich River Golf Club on Monday, June 8, which will offer activities like a golf tournament, mini golf and a Big Freeze slide. You could win a car in the hole-in-one competition.
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JORDAN TOWNROW
Coles Echuca
Coles Echuca is gearing up for a FightMND fundraising spectacular, with a barbecue and dunking event on Sunday, June 7, 2026 from 10am.
Coles Echuca is also joining the cause with a fundraising event on Sunday, June 7, 2026, featuring a barbecue and dunking event. (Back) Pauline Wheelan, Adrian Tedesco, Christine Broe, (front) Niomie Shannon, Dylan Wright and Narelle Bright.
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JORDAN TOWNROW
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