Kids will be able to put their balance to the ultimate test with surfboards on bosu balls at this year’s Telethon Family Festival. The festival is set to take over Perth’s CBD for the fifth year running — with more free, family-friendly fun than ever. A key part of the festival is highlighting the hard work of more than 100 Telethon beneficiaries at the APM Charity Zone.
Visitors will be able to collect stamps along the way for a chance to win a range of prizes. One of those beneficiaries, Ocean Heroes, will set up surfboards on bosu balls to give kids a chance to test out their balance skills. Ocean Heroes has been giving children living with autism the opportunity to embrace their inner surfer since 2016 and now kids visiting the APM Charity Zone will get the same chance.
Ocean Heroes event program coordinator Xander de Haan said it would also allow families to learn how the organisation works to boost kids’ confidence through its surfing program. “Telethon do amazing things in the community, so for us to be associated with Telethon it means a lot to us and the families we serve as well,” he said. “The Telethon funds essentially funded our regional program so we were able to provide our free program to families as far north as Broome all the way through the coast and as far south as Esperance.
“Telethon really helped us serve those regional communities that don’t really have too many resources and we were just really lucky to fill that gap with our program.
