04/08/2026
Our Association’s Target 100K Campaign has now received an excess of $40,000 in contributions from members. With the three-year Campaign now just one year in, those members who have generously supported the Campaign have contributed funds now earning our Association $2,000 in interest each year.
With the funds our Association had to hand at the commencement of the Campaign, $30,000, now earning $1,500 in interest each year, the combined interest is now funding some, but not all, of our Association’s fixed annual costs. Included in those fixed annual costs are insurance ($1,200), website hosting and maintenance ($450), the publication of the quarterly ROCA Digest and the monthly Newsletters ($2,600), general administration expenses ($500) and the medallion presented to the annual Award of Merit recipient ($200).
Reaching the Campaign target of building our Association's financial reserves to at least $100,000 will enable all these fixed annual costs to be met, avoiding the need for seeking further support from members in the future.
To donate to the Target 100K Campaign go to:
www.roseworthy-roca.com.au/campaigns/roseworthy-old-collegians-association-target-100k-campaign
Our Association has also been successful in applying for funds from the 2026 Adelaide University Alumni Network Funding Scheme, receiving $1,000 towards the cost of the publication of the ROCA Digest, $1,500 for our Association’s series of Lunch ‘n Learn events at the Roseworthy Campus, and $1,000 towards the costs associated with the Association’s activities at the Roseworthy Campus Day on Saturday 17 October.
As a result of internal and external influences, particularly the financial impact of the change of our Association from internal to external Alumni Network of the University of Adelaide, and also a recognition of the progressive decline in the value of our Association’s financial reserves over a ...
