The Father’s Day Breakfast is on again for the Central Coast! Thanks to Erina Fair we will be rolling out across the Coast only this year, and hopefully across the State next year.

Registrations have been extended – register your school now! To register your school follow these easy steps....

There are 2 parts to the registration this year – the first is registering you for the website, the second is registering you for the breakfast.

Part 1 – Register for the website

• Go to www.dads.org.au
• In the left column go to the ‘Sign In or Register’ section
• Click ‘Register’
• Fill in all the fields with the correct information
• Click ‘Send registration’
• You will be sent an email with an activation link.
• Click the link in the email.
• You will be taken to an ‘activation complete’ window.

Part 2 – Registration for the breakfast

• With the username and password you have just created – log into the site on the left hand side.
  
• Read the ‘terms and conditions’ - this has important information that is needed for this year.
  
• Fill in all the relevant fields and click register.
• You will receive another email confirming your registration for the breakfast.

MEDIA RELEASE 4 MAY 2009

Dads in Education will be another in the long line of not for profit and charitable organisations that will feel the pinch this year. Its inability to secure a lead sponsor for the 2009 Fathers Day Breakfast has resulted in the events being postponed till 2010.
 
Last year more than 80 000 dads and significant male role models participated in this event, the projection for this year had it gone ahead was 400 000.
 
Through this event school fences have been built for free, computer clubs have been started and an increase in the number of dads participating in schools has been recorded.
 
The event normally coincides with the end of National Literacy and Numeracy Week and the start of the Fathers Day weekend and in past years has seen more than 150 000 children write a story about their dad or significant male role model.  
 
President of the Central Coast Primary Principals Association, Kerry Moore said “that it is sad to see what has become a valuable tool in engaging dads in primary schools has failed to raise funds this year. Primary schools right across the State are feeling the recession bite this year and this will surely add to that”.
 
The Dads in Education Fathers Day Breakfast was started in 2004 and has gradually grown from one school to 260 schools in 2008. This year’s event was to take in the whole state of NSW and the ACT.
 
Program director and founder of Dads in Education and its breakfast Ceri Aubrey said “I knew we were going to find it tough this year but I am really surprised at how tough. While we had a large number of our partners from last year ready to recommit it was the failure to find any new ones for this year that has brought us to a stand still”.
 
The current economic climate has meant that many organisations have had to slash their marketing budgets by a much as 90% this year and while they were wanting to be a part of the Fathers Day project they just couldn’t do it.
 
Dads in Education who have been completely privately funded through sponsorship to date, has written to the State Government and is hoping that they will come to the party for 2010.
 
“It’s in tough times like this that all levels of government and private enterprise need to come together to invest in social cohesion within communities, the Fathers Day project was certainly a good way to do that” Mr Aubrey said.