The Big Lift

🌊 SEAS THE DAY 🌊
‼️ PIFW CRUISE REMINDER ‼️
⏰ 6.30 until late
📍 Departing from King St Wharf
🎟️ $95 for members

Tired of all the PIFW updates? Fear not! Because we will keep pestering you!

The PIFW Cruise is our biggest event of the week with all-you-can-eat food, 🥙 all-you-can-drink drink 🍻 (within responsible limits), all-you-can-see seas, 🌊 all-you-can-people people 👥 and all-you-can-dance dance 🕺💃

So that means, food, drinks, views, fun galore!! ✨✨✨

We just want you all to be part of a fun-filled week of fundraising, volunteering and socialising! 🥹

🏐 ARE YOU READY TO RUMBLEEEE ⚡️

A thrilling PIFW event where we’ll don our sports jerseys 🎽 and slip on our slick socks in an ultimate dodgeball tournament against UTS Red Cross ❣️

🗓️ Wednesday 28th August
⏰ 11am-1pm
📍UTS Ross Milbourne Sports Hall
🎟️ $5 per person
(Tickets to be released soon 👀)

🥁Introducing our next Service Project🥁
🧣Clothes Donation Sorting with the Ted Noffs Foundation!! 👗

You’ll be helping select what clothing and other donated goods can be sold in Ted Noffs Op shops. These funds then go towards the Ted Noffs Foundation! 💕

“The Ted Noffs Foundation strives to help disadvantaged young people become advantaged and supports them on their journey to take back control of their lives.”

🗓️ Tuesday 27th August
⏰ 9.50am-3pm
📍 Ted Noffs Op Shop Petersham (540-542 Parramatta Rd, Petersham NSW 2049)
🔗 SIGN UP LINK IN BIO

Become a craftiste 👨‍🎨 with us and join TBL during PIFW (Pay It Forward Week) for our Crafts Night on Monday 26th August! Together we’ll be making some beautiful beady jewellery to give ourselves some of the PIZZAZ and RAZZMATAZZ ✨

🎺 *cue jazz hands* 👋
🗓️ Monday 26th August
⏰ 6-8pm
🎟️ Tickets will be released soon 👀

Our PIFW events calendar! 🗓️
A little sneak and peek into the bits and bobs that TBL will get up to during Pay It Forward Week 💙🤍 during the 26th August to 1st of September.

👀 More details to come soon

✨ READY… STEADY… SAIL!!! 🚢
Get your boogie on because we’ll be dancing the night away on the upcoming TBL PIFW Cruise! 🕺💃

Dresscode will be COCKTAIL 🍸 so here’s a little moodboard to inspire your fits 👔, your drip 👗 and your bling 💎

🎟️TICKETS ARE STILL AVAILABLE!!! (Link in bio) However our earlybird 🦆 tickets have sold out.
$95: Member Pricing
$100: Non-Member Pricing

Once again, feel free to invite all your loved ones 🥰 aboard the TBL Cruise to
enjoy some stunning harbour views 🌉, an open bar 🍹 and a buffet dinner 🍴with some pretty amazing people 😉

Welcome back to uni, Lifters! We have some exciting news for you all: our annual Pay It Forward Week is happening super soon, and we’d love for you to join us for the ride! 🥰🕺🏽🥳🫂

We have so many fun activities and events planned everyday in Week 4, all dedicated towards paying it forward and making a positive impact in our community! We will then have our cruise to close off the week with a bang and celebrate all the good we have done together this year 🛳️🎊🍸💙

We can’t wait to pay it forward again with you guys (and also hang out with you all everyday for a week 🥹). See you there!

P.S: make sure to your eyes peeled for more info about our activities schedule 👁️👄👁️

🍻 Whether you’re a well-seasoned TBLifter or new to the TBL family, we’d love to have you join us for our Welcome Drinks night! 🥂

Get the chance to mingle, grab a free drink, and meet with other fellowies and learn more about what The Big Lift does! 💙

🗓️ Wednesday August 14
📍 The Loft
⏰ 6:30PM
🎟️Tickets
Member: $5
Non- Member: $10

👀 TICKETS RELEASING SOON 👀

Last Sunday our TBLifters 💪 participated in National Tree Day with the Friends of Lane Cove National Park. 🌱

Tree Day has been an ongoing tradition with The Big Lift and everyone was so eager to be invloved in such a great initiative yet again 💙

A Special thank you must go to Suzanne, of Friends of Lane Cove National Park and our CREW leader, Sania for organising this service project! 🥰

Remember when we told you to save the date? Well wait no further because we’re excited to announce our PAY IT FORWARD CRUISE!! 🚢 🌊🐳

🗓️ Friday 30th August
⏰ 6:30PM until late
📍Departing from King Street Wharf

🎟️TICKETS WILL BE RELEASED THURSDAY AUGUST 1ST @ 8PM 🎟️
‼️GET IN QUICK‼️
$85: Member Early Bird Pricing (Round 1)
LIMITED CAPACITY

$95: Member Pricing (Round 2)
$100: Non- Member Pricing (Round 2)

🎈We would also like to extend the invitation to all 🤝 TBLifters friends, family, significant others who might want to come join us as well 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 (unfortunately no pets considered as family will be able to join 🐶🐱)

So let’s all set ashore and get our 🧚‍♂️ferry-tale ending ✨… HAR HAR 🏴‍☠️

Spring semester is fast approaching, and we are so keen to see new and familiar faces at O’Day! 🎉

Drop by our stall next Wednesday to learn more about the exciting opportunities we have in store for you all. Trust us; you won’t want to miss out! 🥰

Can’t wait to see you all there and chat about how we can together! 💙

🗓️ Wednesday, July 31
⏰ 10AM - 4PM
📍 Building 2, Level 4

The Brigade played host to the travelling volunteers of the BIG LIFT group last night. This group are a team of young Uni Students from Sydney travelling through Country NSW volunteering doing all sorts or work in the little communities they stop in.
There are between 35 to 40 of these young ones that will dig in and get their hands dirty for 4hrs on Wed morning around Ulmarra.

Have to say mingling with these young ones over a great dinner put on by the Ulmarra crew our country's future looks pretty good.

A BIG thankyou from the Ulmarra community, a big thankyou from the Ulmarra crew and a big thankyou to our local historian Kevin Watkins for giving our young visitors a quick rundown of the history of Ulmarra as well.
Community engagement at its best. It was a great night.

Massive thank you to Buzz and Des from the Kandos community! We would also like to extend that to other community members. We felt so welcomed and had such a blast! 💙🤍

The Big Lift White Bus planted 🌱 200 trees, did mulching on the railway, and work at the museum.

A massive thank you to the wonderful Carcoar community for welcoming us back! 💙🤍

Our last visit was in 2022 and we were so excited to see this beautiful town again.

✊ Blue Bus would like to give another round of yeah buddy’s to Nick and family, Brian, Kathy and Allan and community. We all enjoyed such hearty meals and had so much fun during the town tour and volunteering at Carcoar Public School, Museum and the Railway.

🚌 The Big Lift 🚌

A big thank you to The Big Lift Blue Bus for staying at CPS over the weekend!

The Big Lift is a student-run volunteering organisation at The University of Technology Sydney. Founded in 2010 on the philosophy of 'paying it forward', a platform for students to volunteer and engage deeply with local and regional communities.

This is our second visit from The Big Lift and we love having them at our school. The 37 volunteers completed a list of jobs, not only for us, but for our community. They have moved our garden beds ready for Term 3 outdoor learning, cleaned up around our grounds and did some heavy lifting into the skip bins. Some went to Stoke Lane Museum, while others helped out at the Train Station. A big thank you to Australian Native Landscapes ANL for their donation of soil for our gardens!

A big thank you to our staff helpers, especially Mr B’s mum for providing delicious food for our volunteers and giving up their first weekend of holidays. Another big thank you to our wonderful P&C for paying for the cost of food supplies.

Grateful Staff | CPS

A bunch of fine young people have arrived in our district in readiness for giving a Big Lift to Kandos and Rylstone tomorrow.

Thank you to our TBLifters that volunteered at our Service Project last Friday. You all did an amazing job preparing lunch for the Asylum Seekers Center at Newtown! 🥘

Curious about what the menu was? Curry and rice, a salad mix and fruit custard for dessert- how delicious! 🍚🥗

Shoutout to our CREW Mudra 💗 for organising this Service Project! (And deciding the food menu)

💙 The Heart of The Big Lift 🤍

A reminder that Winter Trip Applications close Friday 3rd May 11:59PM!
🔗 https://forms.gle/9c6L9AoXJvC9XQhJ8

Last Saturday, TBL went to volunteer at Canyonleigh as part of the Koala Conservation Project 🐨 Work involved planting trees to create koala habitats for our furry friends. 🌱

We would like to give a big thank you to the Southern Highlands Landcare Network Team for having us. We enjoyed meeting you all and we had such a fun time! 🥰

Shoutout to our CREW: Connor T. for organising this Service Project and to Mya for these beautiful photos! 💙🤍

Two weekends ago, TBL had the wonderful opportunity to volunteer at Tallong😊 Through joint efforts we managed to w**d garden beds, 🌱 do some planting and get rid of an enormous mulch pile. Gooo TBLifters! 💪

Special thank you to all volunteers of Tallong community, Chrissy and the team for giving us such a warm welcome and providing us with such delicious meals. 🥰And shout out to our Operations Director, Immy for organising this Microlift! 💙🤍

💙 Meet the CROP’s of 2024 🤍

CREW + OP’s = CROP’s 🌾

We’re the CROP’s, the leadership team that binds the fabric of The Big Lift society. We’re dedicated to sharing our passion for volunteering and hope to welcome you to 2024!

CREW are in charge of organising service projects, contacting the towns we visit during the Winter Trip and help OP’s run events smoothly.

OP’s oversee all the OPerations of TBL, from admin to logistics, and liaise with stakeholders at UTS and with wider communities.

We wanted to share some silly superlatives for you to get to know us 🤭

Thank you to everyone who came to Clean Up Australia Day!! 👏🤩

Some of us were in kayaks cleaning the waterways, others in parks with some doggy doodoo, while another group ventured along the riverside to pick up rubbish washed up along the shore.

Some interesting finds included two halves of a wheel 🛞 and a geocache 🧭 we found accidentally!

Thank you to Wendy and the Yaralla Sea Scouts Team for having us, as well as our very own CREW Pragya for organising this service project. ❤️

Hi everyone!! 👋💪

If you’ve ever wanted to know what 💙🤍 TBL is, what work we do or where we go, we’ve created a TBL explainer just for you!

We’re so excited for the year ahead and hope to go on many, many, more TBL adventures.

With the semester crawling to an end this is the perfect opportunity to participate in one of TBLs volunteering events. Come join us for our latest volunteering service project!

We will be helping to declutter items and clean up one of Aspect's campuses at Marrickville! The school and Aspect themselves support and teach students with autism, and the clean up that we do will be in preparation for the school's renovation in the summer!

The event is free for our members, but this event does require that all participants have a valid Working With Children’s Check.

Register now at https://forms.gle/Qnn3caT8LXp1PStK6, we hope to see you there!!

Day 1 in Ganmain has been a big success! Thank you so much for having us in your town 💙💙💙

Don’t miss out, get your tickets for TBL Trivia today!
- https://www.activateuts.com.au/events/tbl-trivia/

Topics include:

- Identify that sound
- Guess the celebrity
- Movie sidekicks
- Music
- Pot luck
- What happens next?

You heard that right! Applications for the 2023 Winter Trip (aka the highlight of your uni life) close in just 48 HOURS 😱

Here’s a glimpse of what we get up to in that amount of time — now imagine a whole 9 days!

Don’t miss this incredible opportunity! Apply below 💙
- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeUv7OrbO3L3VoZUA6dhbIKlconmNgZbAitVz_1A2lTySOaw/viewform

Get keen for a Red Cross x TBL x EWB collab!

We’re hosting a games night on May 5, so come along and bring your fave game for a night of fun 🎮

📆 May 5 2023
🕐 5.30pm—8.30pm
📍CB11.04.205

We can’t wait to see you!