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24 November 2024

Acacias Ball

As 2025 is fast approaching, we are excited to be well underway with plans to celebrate our milestone 120 years of Loreto College Marryatville and 150 year of Loreto College Australia and South East Asia next year. As part of the 120-year milestone, the College will be celebrating with The Acacias Ball held at Adelaide Oval on Saturday 5 April 2025. It promises to be a very special night for our college and wider community. To book your ticket, please visit https://events.humanitix.com/acacias-ball

To support this event, we would be grateful should you have a prize you could donate – anything and everything will be gratefully received! From wine donations for our wine wall, holiday house accommodation, restaurant vouchers, beauty treatments and experiences are just a few examples, but we welcome you to be as creative as you wish with items. To donate, please email events@loreto.sa.edu.au to provide details on your item. We are so grateful for your contribution.

In addition, there are attractive sponsorship packages available which we hope will be beneficial to your business. Please review the opportunities here.

We are excited to share news and sincere thanks to Harris Real Estate, our school caterers Chartwells, Higgins Coatings and our uniform supplier Midford who have all come on board as bronze sponsors.

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