Never Too Young to Care about Others!

* 10 June 2021 *

Vasey RSL Care Frankston South residents were on the receiving end of a lovely donation from 4-year-old Charlie Gourley, pictured with his mum Amy and Frankston South Lifestyle Coordinator, Ruwan.

On ANZAC Day, Charlie presented $345 to the residents at our Frankston South home – money he had raised by baking ANZAC biscuits and selling them at his day care and to his friends and family.

Charlie began helping his mum cook from a very young age and by 2½ he was a regular in the kitchen. Some of his favourites are chocolate cake and enchiladas. It seems like cooking is in the genes – his grandmother loves baking and his auntie is a chef. 

Charlie was motivated to make ANZAC biscuits after his mum read him a story about a little girl making them for her dad who was a soldier during the war and sending them off to him. He wanted to do something for the soldiers and rather than just making biscuits for them, wanted to raise funds so they could have something they really wanted. “They could get pizza,” Charlie suggested.