Promoting this year’s Plan B Win a Swag promotion is Chelsea Philips from Parkes Services Club.
It’s the season of celebration and end-of-year gatherings with work mates, family and friends, so if you’re choosing to have a few drinks, it also means, planning how to get home safely.
Throughout December 2022 and January 2023, almost 60 licensed venues across the Parkes, Forbes and Lachlan Shire Councils are participating in the Plan B Win a Swag promotion to encourage patrons to make a Plan B to get home safely when they drink alcohol. It’s a reminder that drink driving is never an acceptable plan.
The promotion is currently underway in all pubs, clubs and bottle shops across the Parkes, Forbes and Lachlan Shire Council areas, with the exception of venues in Forbes, Lake Cargelligo and Tullibigeal.
The Plan B Win a Swag promotion encourages the conversation about planning safe ways to get home. In many of our smaller villages there isn’t public transport or a courtesy bus, so this promotion prompts patrons to think of other alternatives to get home safely. It’s great that the swag is also a Plan B!
If you’re celebrating locally, patrons at participating hotels, clubs and bottle shops can complete an entry form that asks what their Plan B for getting home safely is. They then go in the draw to win a swag valued at over $250. Each venue has a swag to give away, with winners drawn at the end of January (or February in Forbes, Lake Cargelligo and Tullibigeal).
NSW Police will also be out in force conducting random breath testing during the holiday season. Double demerits will be in force from the 23rd December 2022 to 2 January 2023 and 25th to 29th January 2023.
For further information please contact Parkes, Forbes and Lachlan Shire Councils; Road Safety and Injury Prevention Officer, Melanie Suitor, on (02) 6861 2364.