Every small business should be part of their local community – and by that I don’t just mean doing work for other local businesses. What I mean here is that every small business should pitch in and help the local community wherever help is needed.

Here in Hervey Bay the community needs help to build something that’s never been built by a community in Australia before … a patient transfer facility at the local airport. In Hervey Bay at least five patients every day of the week are transferred to Brisbane for further medical treatment and, just like every other country airport in Australia, that means the patient has to be transferred to one of the Royal Flying Doctor Service planes out on the open tarmac in every type of weather you could imagine.

Some members in the community decided that it was time we treated those patients to something a little more civilised and so the Fraser Coast Patient Transfer Facility Committee has been formed to raise money to construct a special building that will allow patients to be transferred to the aircraft under cover.

While Toni and I are not part of the community our small business has joined many other local small businesses in sponsoring this worthwhile project. The Fraser Coast Patient Transfer Facility website went live today.