Re: DSRM is ....

["Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au>]

They have given you stuff which would have been discarded as scrap by people
at a lower management level, but I don't think they will be corporate
sponsors and give you money. Companies like to see what sort of management
structure there is, and where the money will go, and how it will benefit
them. The Sydney maritme museum, national trust, historic houses trust, and
others.all receive donations from some very large companies.






"Trevor Edmonds" <trevor_edmonds@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
3ac30d49$0$25466$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3ac30d49$0$25466$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> Chris wrote...
>
> > I don't think anybody associated with the Dorrigo line will get any
money
> or
> > support from the government or private sector. After all the dramas up
> > there, guilty or not, the two groups have really shitted in their nest.
> > Large listed companies like BHP, AMP, Caltex,  etc sponsor and support
> > worthwhile community non profit organisations.
>
> BHP have donated 2 locomotives, and a generous amount of spares for them.
I
> doubt if we have ever talked to AMP. I will have to check, but I think our
> Caltex oil wagons were donated. Various other companies have also donated
> items to us. Most of the track we are using on the earthworks site has
been
> donated by companies with disused sidings. Simms Mascot was the last
siding
> we lifted.
>
> Trevor
>
>