Sastra is the proud winner in the outstanding professional services category at the 2020 Cumberland Local Business Awards.

Sastra provides accounting, bookkeeping, BAS, taxation, payroll, business consulting, software consulting, CFO services, management accounting and business start-up assistance to small-to-medium businesses, charities, sporting and recreational clubs, community service organisations, professional and business associations, cultural and social societies at our clients’ offices or at our office, depending on the client’s requirements and preferences.

While we assist our clients in ensuring their compliance requirements are met on time, we go beyond compliance and provide financial and business information to assist in business decision making and growth plans. 

Our experience in combining accounting, technology and business process consulting, working with a wide range of clients in diverse industries and geographies, help us in enabling our clients to achieve sustained growth.

We understand the complexity of compliance requirements for not-for-profit organisations. We take care of your accounting functions, so you can focus on making the communities better places.

We use a number of cloud software including Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks Online, Deputy, Tanda, Spotlight and Futrli to empower our clients to make correct decisions using up to date information while achieving exceptional process efficiencies.

We love to learn about your organisations. Contact us for no obligation discussion
to determine if our services can help you with your organisation needs.

Contact us

1300 727 872 | 1300 SASTRA

 info@sastra.com.au

www.sastra.com.au

 Linkedin/Sastraptyltd

 C1 Richmond Road, HOMEBUSH WEST NSW 2140

What is Father's Day?

Father's Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, grandads, paternal bonds and the influence of fathers in society. 

When is Father's Day? 

Sunday, 3 September 

Activities:

• Make a Card - All dads like a handmade card. Be sure to write a note and list some of the things you like about your dad. Draw a picture of you and him doing something together.
• Cooking experience - children participating in helping to make superhero cookies for their dad, grandads and any father figures the children have in their lives.
• Group discussion - Children sharing with one another what they love to do with their fathers and what they are good at. 
• Father's Day Handprint Superhero (Crafty Morning)
• Making a fathers day tie - https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/287597126188867403/
• My Daddy Can Fix Anything Craft shed sign - https://www.pinkandgreenmama.com/2013/06/easy-kid-made-fathers-day-gift-popsicle.html#.XznnGIozaUk
• Nuts and Bolts frame - https://fun-a-day.com/homemade-fathers-day-gift-kiddos/
• Making a father's day goodies bag can include anything the above art and crafts listed above.

Keep Australia Beautiful Week is held late August each year to raise awareness about the simple things we can all do in our daily lives to reduce our impact on the environment and encourage action.

This year ALL Australians are called to DO the right thing by not littering from their car and to report anyone seen doing so.

For more information on How to Run a Litter Clean up please click here

So please “Do the right thing it’s your obligation, and your planet will thank you for your cooperation!”

What is Keep Australia Beautiful Week? 

Keep Australia Beautiful Week is held late August each year to raise awareness about the simple things we as a community can all do in our daily lives to reduce our impact on the environment and encourage action.

This year we will be focusing on 
#ContainYourWaste

How to participate

Keep Australia Beautiful Week 20230 will focus on the three main ways we can reduce and recycle some of the goods we’re using more of these days:

1. How to protect you and your loved ones without the cost to our planet

2. How to keep good hygiene practices that don’t cost the Earth

3. How to reduce and recycle the single-use consumables from takeaway food and drinks

When is Keep Australia Beautiful Week?

From Monday 07 to Sunday 13 August

Activities:

• Rubbish Sort Activity - Identify what item is disposed in general waste and recycling bin
• Creating a recycling corner where children can bring in recycling items and material which can be reused
• Interntional Teaching - Sustainabity:
  • Saving energy - turning lights off when no in use (Maximise the use of natural light and ventilation throughout the day)
  • Place signs near all light switches, air conditioners and power points to act as reminders to turn off when not needed
  • Adding a compose outside in your vegetable garden
  • Planting a vegetable garden for the service to grow their own produce
• Make kites and fly them as a tool to discuss wind energy
• Make a windmill and discuss the direction of the wind throughout the day
• Learn and discuss about static energy – children rub a balloon on their hair and use the charged energy to pick up small bits of paper

What is Daffodil Day?

The Daffodil Day Appeal is Cancer Council’s most iconic and much-loved fundraising campaign. It is a day for Australians to give hope to those affected by all cancers by donating to support a cancer free future.

When is Daffodil Day?

Thursday, 31 August

Activities:

• Come dressed in yellow and donate a gold coin (https://www.daffodilday.com.au/fundraise-at-school)
• Arts and Crafts - Invite babies and toodler to create a daffofil with preschoolers
• Arts and Crafts - Invite preschoolers to create a daffofil windmill with preschoolers
• Have a raffle for familiy and asking small local business to donate to create hampers and vouchers for families to enter and win. Money raised to be donated to the Cancer Council Daffodil Day fund raiser.
• Due to COVID19 and limits to gatherings, centres can encourage their families to donate through the website direct: https://www.daffodilday.com.au/donate