Community Involvement

Apart from Duval’s sporting involvement with the community, including charity runs and Relay for life, Duval is involved in many community and fundraising events. Each year Shave for a Cure is very popular and very entertaining. Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea sees the cleaners show us their baking skills and helps to raise much needed funds. The Oaktree foundation is an organisation through which young people seek to raise funds for impoverished children in the developing world. Last year Duval raised thousands of dollars for an orphanage through the Oaktree foundation. Duval College also has a sponsor child, Manko from Somalia. Each year in O’Week we hold a Slave Auction to raise money for Manko. First year students are put into groups and are auctioned off to the rest of the college for a few hours. Couth Day is another fundraising day where students must dress well and behave well. This means good manners and no swearing. Anyone who slips up on Couth Day must make a donation to a specified charity. Each year Duval holds Trivia nights to raise money for College scholarships, awards and bursaries. There are also some great prizes to be won, as well as being crowned the most intelligent group in college.

Hawkesbury Canoe Classic

One of Duval’s biggest and favorite community commitments is our annual involvement in the Hawkesbury Canoe Classic. The HCC is a 111km paddle, which is organised in conjunction with Drummond and Smith College. Both Colleges train together, go on practice paddle weekends, have fundraising events and make great friendships. For every paddler there is a land crew member who helps to look after them, keep them enthused, well fed and watered, and warm. Each year the DD&S Kayaking Club sends around 70 people down to Windsor to this important fundraising event. Our students love to get involved in this very challenging but extremely rewarding experience.

The HCC raises money for the Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation. Their website describes the Foundation as "a charitable foundation funding medical research into the cause, prevention, treatment and cure of leukaemia and other related diseases".