Just like a Pearl Jam album, some fairly well known commandments and a film about Aboriginal canoeists, the Greater Charitable foundation is all about "ten" at the moment.
As of this month, the foundation has spent $10 million over a decade in existence.
The company behind the charitable foundation - once a building society, now a bank and soon to be a merged bank - has been going for more than 75 years.
It had a long history of supporting communities, a desire it made official in 2011 when the foundation began.
Its charter was to make a significant difference to the lives of people in the areas where the bank operated.
The board chipped in $1 million annually to support this vision.
The foundation has supported 31 charitable groups over the decade. This has helped cancer patients and their families, sick children with educational support, family respite services and medical research.
Greater Charitable Foundation chief executive Anne Long said the milestone gave those involved "a chance to look back and reflect" on the work they've done and the effects on people's lives.
"I've had this incredible opportunity to work alongside and connect with organisations doing amazing work - to assist individuals and families, who may not have had the capacity to support themselves," she said.
She said the $10 million had "directly benefited" 32,000 people.
She was looking forward to working with the foundation for the "greater good" in the decade ahead. Great pun, that.
ScoMo's Teams
ScoMo is now a Jets fan. The number one fan, too, by the looks.
Port of Newcastle chief executive Craig Carmody gave the big kahuna a Jets shirt during his trip to Newcastle on Monday.
We all know ScoMo is a Cronulla Sharks fan. Who could forget his bold intention to attend the season opener in 2020 against the Rabbitohs on the eve of the pandemic, despite fears of an outbreak.
"The fact that I would still be going on Saturday speaks not just to my passion for my beloved Sharks, it might be the last game I get to go to for a long time," he said.
This was despite his announcement of a ban on "non-essential mass gatherings" from the following Monday.
By Friday evening, he had decided against attending the game over concerns his attendance could cause "unnecessary confusion". Lucky, hey, that this "unnecessary confusion" around the pandemic didn't become a thing.
Labor leader Albo recently took a shot at ScoMo over his sporting passion, claiming he only became a Sharks fan "when he moved into the Shire".
Before he became a pollie, his CV apparently listed him as a fan of rugby sides Randwick and the Waratahs and the AFL's Western Bulldogs. You can probably add the Jets to that list now, as long as Hunter folk vote Liberal at the election.
