The raffle will be drawn on Saturday August 20 at 12pm at at the Rotary Bookshed at Taree Showground.

Prizes for the raffle are two oil paints created and donated by Tinonee artists Ron and Helen Hindmarsh, and a $260 basket of Body Shop products, donated by Colleen Stonehouse.

Tickets for the raffle are still available. You can buy them on Thursday, August 18 at Taree Central Shopping Centre where volunteers will be taking donations and selling tickets.

Related: A look at a sleepbus for rough sleepers

There is still a long way to go to get the $100,000 necessary to have a sleepbus delivered to Taree. Donations are climbing towards at total of $29,000, not yet a third of the way to the total.

"Five local Lions Clubs donated $1000 each, thanks to the efforts of our member, Len Keogh," Manning Homeless Action Group (MHAG) founder Terry Stanton said.

"Bob Nelson, also a member of MHAG, is president of Rotary Club of Taree North, and has done a great deal for the campaign, obtaining $5000 in Rotary grants."

Terry Stanton will be giving a talk about the sleepbus to members of Forster U3A at the Cape Hawke Surf Club, Forster, on Tuesday, August 16 at 10am, and to the Taree Lions Club at 6pm on Tuesday, September 30.

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