Purple Month – March 2019

Each March we celebrate national Epilepsy Awareness Month

A time when we ask Tasmanians to support our events to raise awareness of epilepsy and much-needed funds to provide services and support to Tasmanians affected by epilepsy.

On 26 March we celebrate Purple Day – a worldwide grassroots campaign started in 2008 by nine-year-old Cassidy Megan from Canada to get more people talking about epilepsy.  

          Register your own event here.     Volunteer to help at a Purple Event here.  

          Download our fun children’s colouring-in activities:   Teddy Bear      Sheep       Mammoth

 

PURPLE EVENTS (so far!):

• Sunday 3rd March – fundraising BBQ at Bunnings Mornington.

• Wednesday 6th March – Garden Tour & Morning Tea at Government House (book thru TryBooking).

• Sunday 10th March – fundraising BBQ at Bunnings Glenorchy – meet Epilepsy Tasmania’s new ambassador Jess McCallum (elite powerlifter).

• Sunday 17th March – morning tea and merchandise sales at Howrah Sandford Parish Church – organised by volunteer Isa Kingston.

• Wednesday 27th March – lunch for a donation at Rokeby Neighbourhood Centre – organised by volunteer Isa Kingston.

• Friday 29th March – fundraising BBQ at Bunnings Kingston.

• Saturday 30th March – merchandise sales at Emmanuel Christian School – organised by volunteer Isa Kingston.

• Sunday 31st March – fundraising BBQ at Bunnings Kings Meadows.

• Sunday 31st March – fundraising BBQ at Bunnings Mornington.

• All March – fundraising at the Girls’ Brigade – organised by volunteer Isa Kingston.

• All March – merchandise sales at Five Star Weight Watchers -organised by volunteer Isa Kingston.

PURPLE LIGHTS:

• Latrobe Council’s Bass Highway Tree (eastern entrance to Latrobe)

• The parnaple convention centre in Devonport

• Southern Midlands Council

• City of Launceston 

• City of Hobart

• Burnie City Council

• ABC Building, Hobart

• Railway Roundabout on Brooker Highway, Hobart

• Launceston Country Club

• Hotel Grand Chancellor, Launceston

• Elizabeth Street Mall, Hobart

• Franklin Square, Hobart

• Government House Tasmania

• Kennedy Lane, Salamanca

PURPLE SUPPORTERS:

• G&M Eyelines, Devonport

• Terry White Chemmart, Burnie

• Flick the Bean cafes

• JJ’s Bakery in Longford, Lonnie and Campbeltown

• ABC Cafe, Hobart

• Bunnings

Celebrating last year’s PURPLE MONTH …