If you feel moved by a tragedy, such as the terrible damage storm-ravaged Lennox Head experienced this morning from the devastating tornado, there’s a way you can help, without it costing you a cent. Every year, Good Deeds mortgage managers will donate .1% of your mortgage amount to the charity of your choice – for the entire life of your loan (from their own fees). And you can change the choice of recipient each year if you like, or split it between two groups. If we all did this, imagine the difference our mortgages would make to our communities.

With all the doom and gloom about interest rates and economic conditions, it’s encouraging to see that people are turning their mortgage payments into something positive – whether it’s the conscious decision to buy a more environmentally sound home, or their initiative to get off the sidelines and use their mortgage to help charities and sporting groups through our Good Deeds mortgages, it’s all a move in the right direction.

Not only are consumers making good choices, knowing their small difference collectively adds up to a big impact for charities, sporting groups, or the environment, but they are winning by having more energy-efficient homes to save them money long-term and interest-rate savings with our option.

Gold Coast Blaze

It’s good to see The Gold Coast Blaze, pumped up by its best season ever this year, also using innovative ways to raise important fundraising dollars. The National Basketball League team, established by businessman Owen Tomlinson, has taken a fresh marketing approach that has caught the imagination of Gold Coast businesses.

One of its packages is the ‘coach’s locker’, which puts sponsors side-by-side with the coach and the team and into the inner sanctum of the locker room.Chief executive Dave Claxton was confident this would translate into improved revenue for the club.

Even when you’re a winning team, sponsorship can be hard to get in tight economic times. But, even a team on the bottom of the ladder has loyal supporters – Good Deeds Mortgage Managers can convert this loyalty into funds for your club – just by donating (from our fee) .1% of their mortgage to their nominated team each and every year.

Read the full article here.

Considering the number of members each club has, this could mean a lot of guaranteed funds coming into your club each and every year – without a sausage sizzle or raffle ticket in sight! For more about how this scheme works go to www.gooddeeds.net.au

As a long-time member of the Nerang Bowls Club, Good Deeds founder Mike Astill got into the spirit of the day with a company team, by selling raffle tickets, giving out free scratch and beer/wine tickets, as well as cash for winning teams, the best dressed, novelty prizes and a sponsorship fee.

Mike has won a number of major international trophies and helped the club pick up 8 club and district pennants over the 15 years he’s been a member.

Mike from Good Deeds Mortgages gave us a solution to our finance problems with our mortgage.

The Good Deeds service was very professional and Mike took a personal interest in our situation. It was a pleasure dealing with a company who understood our issues and did not charge any fees yet offered us a solution that not only saved us thousands in loan repayments but  also showed us how we could own our home in 5 years.

After dealing with Good Deeds I would no longer consider dealing directly with a bank.

Say your mortgage with Good Deeds is $250,000 (the current average home loan value). As soon as your loan is approved, we draw a cheque for $250 and present it on your behalf. And we will continue to do that each year for as long as you are with us at Good Deeds.

Now, imagine you tell ten, twenty, thirty of your friends who have home loans and belong to the same club or organisation? And they all shift their loans to Good Deeds. Suddenly there’s a steady stream of donations coming into the club or charity’s coffers.

Everyone’s a winner and it hasn’t cost anyone but Good Deeds a cent!