Kerri Laidlaw
Active community advocate

Steve Marks
General Manager iBroker and possible live liver donor to his young son

Andy King
Managing Director ACSG & double lung transplant recipient

Chris Heverin

Owner Initiative Marketing

Craig Subocz

Senior Associate Russell Kennedy Pty Ltd

Allan Turner
Co-Founder CEO Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation

Foundations Patron
Craig ‘Ned’ Kelly - Director/Co-Owner Elite Sports Properties

Foundations Ambassadors
James Hird - Essendon FC Legend - 1996 Brownlow Medal Winner
Tony Jones - Channel Nine Sports Presenter and AFL Football Show Host
Mark Beretta - Channel 7 Sports Report and Sunrise Personality
Michael Rodd - 2007 Melbourne Cup winning jockey on Efficient
Stephen Quartermain - Network Tens Sports Anchor, presenter on The Panel, AFL Football & Triple M
Tara Brown - 60 minutes and The Gift program
Tony Abbott - The Honourable Federal Minister
Tom Lonergan - Geelong AFL Player - lost a kidney Round 21 2006 after a clash
Jonah Lomu - New Zealand All Black Rugby Union Legend
Stephen Richards - Supercar V8 driver
Shane Heal - Four-time Olympian Australian Basketball Captain/Player - Current Gold Coast Blaze Player
Aiden Blizzard - Victorian Cricket Bushranger Player
Glenn Joyner - 20 years playing in Professional Tournaments across the globe with over 60 professional wins.
Rosa Miot - Executive Officer Disability Sports Victoria

Foundations Youth Ambassadors
Harley Clifford - World Wakeboard Champion
Bridget Pledge - Melbourne school student

Co-Founders of the Foundation

Kim and Allan Turner - Zaidee’s proud parents and Co-founders of the Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation.

Zaidee is now part of the IGA Community Benefit program.

Zaidee’s Custom Motorbike launches the Zaidee Pin & Patch into the motorbike industry.
Presentation to 1,000 students at Wanganui Park Secondary College Shepparton August 2008.

Zaidee’s airbrushed custom motorbike.

Zaidee’s Mercedes Benz Promotion Van - for transporting Zaidee’s Custom Motorbike so I can travel nationally.

By RacePaint~Fleeting Image and John Evans magic hands.

The photo is not photoshopped, it was a Rainbow after a sun shower in Shepparton. A message I think!

I presented a gift of a pair of Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces to Ms Quentin Bryce AC - The Governor General on her visit to Shepparton 22 October 2008. Who said she would give them to her Granddaughter for her shoes.

On Wednesday 2nd July 2008, Allan Turner was presented with the Paul Harris Fellow by President David Shave from Rotary Club of Kew on Yarra and proudly accepted on behalf of Zaidee’s campaign.

Mark Beretta wearing a specially design Zaidee’s Rainbow Wetsuit successfully completes a back flip on a Trick Ski on the Yarra River during Moomba 2008 - as shown on Channel 7 Sunrise.

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Allan proudly presents to Andrew Denton and Enough Rope team a Zaidee Plaque for their passion and raising national awareness over two moving stories about Zaidee

Andrew visits Zaidee’s Garden at her school as part of Enough Rope 2007

20/09/2009
Since February 2006 the Foundation has being selling Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces nationally for organ and tissue donation, transplant awareness.

Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces is our national symbol, and the aim of the Foundation and of the Turner family is to make Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces to become the national symbol for organ and tissue awareness. Many people feel and have already expressed to me personally it already has and should be known as our national symbol for organ and tissue donation awareness in Australia. Currently it is the only symbol that can be purchased by the public nationally and has been incredibly well supported from all sectors of the community from all ages, specially our children, and in having Zaidee Rainbow Days at their schools.

Our most elite sporting players to grass root clubs to politicians from both side of parliament with bipartisan support are behind the laces. Sporting clubs from the AFL, NRL, Australian Cricket players, NBL, WNBL, Soccer and the list goes on of sporting teams in all codes that have wore the laces at the highest level of sport, even a number of Australian representative sporting team have worn the laces whilst in the green and gold. In one sporting organisation alone the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League over the weekend on Saturday 24th May 2008, over 4,500 football and netball players from juniors to seniors wore the laces “Zaidee’s Round”. Both the AFL and NRL Umpires and referees wore the laces in one round over June/July 2008. And the list and support nationally is growing each week, month and year.

For just $2 you can wear them in your shoes, around your writs in your hair, hang them off your bag especially if you travel through airports. Over 200,000 Australians so far have supported the laces in carrying Zaidee’s message nation wide. If you would like to support Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces to be known as our national symbol for organ and tissue donation I would like to obtain your support.

Please email me your comments to allan@zaidee.org Best wishes, Allan Turner Chief Executive Officer Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation

We are seeking the support of sporting clubs and organisations, as well as schools and businesses, to help raise awareness of organ and tissue donation by placing an order for Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces. Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces is now a 12 month national and now international (into New Zealand) campaign. If you can help promote organ and tissue awareness by wearing Zaidee’s Rainbow Shoelaces then please give me a call or send an email allan@zaidee.org

On Monday April 21st 2008, I was invited to Parliament House Canberra to meet with Senator The Hon Jan McLucas Parliamentary Secetary to the Minister for Helath and Ageing for a private meeting, and for over 1 hour we talked about Zaidee’s national campaign and the support we have received from the national sporting codes and the future support of the many national awareness programs we will be delivering, such as the Motorbike Pin and Patch to be launched at this years Phillip Island Motorbike GP.
I left this meeting with a very positive feel that the Government is heading in the right direction with the new changes for organ and tissue donation issues that we will see in the community over the coming years.