About Us

The Beginning

Sundale Garden Village Nambour now Sundale Ltd, was founded in 1963 by the Apex Club of Nambour with strong support from a group of local businessmen. The mission was to provide accommodation and services for older citizens in the Nambour Community. Sundale was literally a household name during the first few decades of its existence continuously growing through the generosity of the community and its willingness and ability to raise funds for continuous growth and development. Today, Sundale Ltd is a not for profit organisation that supports the needs of its community via outstanding Retirement Communities, Care Centres and In-Home Care support services.

In 2013 Sundale, celebrated 50 years of service and as part of those celebrations announced an initiative to recognise the enormous community contributions from fund raising, gifts, donations, bequests and thousands of volunteer hours toward the success of Sundale. That initiative was the establishment of a Charitable Community Foundation under the direction of an independent Board of Directors.

Sundale Ltd generously gifted the new Sundale Community Foundation $1million in June 2016 ensuring that the Foundation would instantly be in a position to make grants to worthy charitable organisations within the operational area of Sundale Ltd.

An independent Sundale Community Foundation Board was appointed in 2015 and formulated Mission, Vision and Values, a 3-5 year strategic plan and operational policies for Investment, Grants, Promotion and Governance. This achievement made possible an inaugural round of community grants funded from investment earnings in 2017.

Sundale Community Foundation is a Legacy of the very successful first 50 years of Sundale Ltd

The objects of the Foundation are for the public charitable purposes of advancing health, education, social and / or public welfare, culture, the natural environment and other similar charitable purposes which are beneficial to the general public.

Foundations grants will target support for Not-for-profit organisations, registered charities and DGR endorsed organisations from Nambour and surrounding areas. Eligible organisations are invited to submit grant applications which open each year in July and close on 31^st August.

Our Board

Al Upton

Chair

Al has worked at Butler McDermott Lawyers in Nambour since 2016, to his current role as Director.

As a Queensland Solicitor he has successfully litigated disputes in the Supreme and District Courts of Queensland.

His legal experience is in the areas of property, commercial, wills and estates and general litigation.

With a keen interest in giving back to the local community, Al sits on the Daniel Morcombe Foundation Board and in December 2023 was elected as Board Chair of Sundale Community Foundation.

Angela Baldwin

Born in Nambour, Angela is a fifth generation Sunshine Coast local who has a passion for community. Angela holds a Bachelor of Communication (double major in Marketing and Journalism) from Griffith University. Her career in Corporate Communications and Community Engagement spans 30 years, having worked 23 years in state government, and seven years in public relations and communications teams for Virgin Airlines, Aurizon, and the University of the Sunshine Coast. Angela’s current role is with a not-for-profit commonwealth health organisation, Country to Coast, Queensland. Her experience enables her to create communications strategies than connect with staff, stakeholders and the community.

Scott Trevor

Scott is an Accountant with 16 year’s experience, he was raised locally on the Sunshine Coast. His current role as Director with Core Business Accountants, Birtinya sees him overseeing portfolios for professional service firms in marketing, real estate, town planning, property development, security, and legal services providing strategic blueprints for tax management and structures and mentoring for clients and businesses. Scott’s appetite for knowledge, his own holistic approach to money management and his leadership role within a team managing highly qualified professionals enables him to deliver the advice and services his clients need to achieve their goals.

Wayne Greenham

Wayne has lived and worked and been a member of the Nambour and Sunshine Coast community for over 30 years – where Wayne and his wife have raised their 3 children. Wayne has been involved with the local community and has held numerous positions with The Apex club of Nambour. Wayne is a current member of Apex Camps Sunshine Coast and Magnetic Island. Apex Camps run camps for Schools, Social & Community groups at Mudjimba & Magnetic Island. Wayne held the position of President with Apex Camps from 2006 – 2019

Carol Trevor

Carol Trevor is currently the Director of Safety, Quality and Innovation at the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service. Carol is a health care professional with over 35 years’ experience as a midwife and child health nurse. Carol has held a number of management roles within both the private and public health sector in particular in the area of patient safety and quality improvement. Carol and her husband Philp live on the Trevor family cane farm that was established in 1941 on the Maroochy River. Carol is looking forward to working on the Sundale Foundation Community Board.

John Pearce

John Pearce has been a resident of the Sunshine Coast for 40 Years. He taught at Nambour High School and Burnside High School for a period of 32 years and taught Adult Education Classes at the Nambour TAFE and the CCSE at Nambour High during this time. John has been a Committee (Board) member of the Daniel Morcombe Foundation (DMF) since 2008. He is actively involved at the Maroochydore Courthouse in the ‘JPs in the Community Program’. From 2010 -2016 he served as Branch Chairman of the Maroochydore Branch of the QJA. Since August 2016 he has been on the Board of Sundale Community Foundation.

Graeme Campbell

Graeme is one of the founding partners of Freedom Broadband on the Sunshine Coast and is a seconded observer of the Sundale Community Foundation board. Graeme has always had a heart to see healthy social enterprise being involved in many community projects. Graeme has holds a masters degree in business as well as brings 15 years of business experience to the Sundale Community Foundation. In his spare time you will find Graeme spending times with his lovely wife and 3 kids.