The Cobar community has benefited from a donation of more than $48,000 from the Regional Australia Bank as part of this year’s Community Partnership Program.
A large group of recipients from Cobar’s local sporting, community and charity organi-sations were presented with their donations last Tuesday night at the Services Club.
Among this year’s biggest “winners” from the program were: Cobar Junior Rugby League (who received $6,847), Auto Club of Cobar ($3,295), Cobar Netball Association ($2,688); Cobar Preschool ($1,941); Cobar Pony Club ($1,464), Lilliane Brady Village Pink Ladies ($1,151), Cobar Swimming Club ($1,135), Cobar Business Association ($831) and CATS—Cobar Athletics & Triathlon Squad ($821).
Regional Australia Bank’s Regional Opera-tions Manager Nathan Merchant said they were committed to providing support to the local communities in which they operate.
He said the primary objective of the Commu-nity Partnership Program is to benefit commu-nities while also increasing their engagement with them.
When new customers sign up to open an account with the Regional Australia Bank, they are given the opportunity to join the program and nominate a local sporting or charity group of their choice to support.
The bank calculates the customer’s average annual balance and donates the equivalent of 0.75 per cent to the chosen group for the finan-cial year.
For recipient organisation accounts, the bank also donates the equivalent of 0.40 per cent of the average annual balance to recipient organi-sations supporting themselves.
Mr Merchant said they are proud to continue to deliver this program, which is now in its 14th year.
He said this year the program reached anoth-er new milestone of donating more than $2 million to communities.
