The Heat Beads® team likes do our bit for the community. So, when the Latrobe Regional Hospital recently hosted its Platinum Ball at the Premiere function centre in Traralgon, we jumped at the opportunity to donate a prize for its fund raising auction. This fantastic and entertaining evening raised a total of $133,000 to be directed to the Gippsland Cancer Care Centre! This is a whopping $59,000 up on the funds raised at last year’s event.

The silent auction was a highlight, raising a grand total of $34, 600! Heat Beads® donated its brand new Entertainer BBQ and coordinated with local businesses to create the ultimate BBQ package that would light any char grill enthusiast’s fire! The package contained the below items and sold for a bargain $1,900 to Wight’s Motor World.

* Heat Beads® Solid Fuel Entertainer BBQ
* 8 X 4kg bags of Heat Beads(r) BBQ Briquettes
* 6 piece Elwood Patio Setting
* Gasmate Outdoor Patio Heater
* Qualified Chef from Neilsons Restaurant: for one perfect BBQ!
* Salads for 6: Courtesy of Neilsons Restaurant
* $50 meat voucher: Courtesy of Hyland Street Butchers

Great sporting events mean a great excuse for a BBQ! The AFL Grand Final this weekend and the NRL Grand Final and Bathurst 1000 just around the corner. Fire up the barbie and enjoy the fun with family and friends. While you’re at it, why not make a video and enter our spring competition?

To celebrate the launch of the new Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ, to be released in Australia in November 2008, the Heat Beads® team is giving you a special opportunity to win one of these great units, just in time for Summer!

Simply upload a four minute video of you or your friends BBQ’ing your favourite recipe on Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes to YouTube - we’ll be looking for the best footage of your delicious recipes actually cooking over the Heat Beads® briquette’s, lots of fun and good humour, and of course your comment about why you love to cook over Heat Beads®! Then you’ll be in the running to be one of three winners of a Heat Beads® Entertainer BBQ valued at $499.

There will also be three Heat Beads® Prize Packs on offer for the close runners up containing Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes, a Heat Beads® Quickstart Chimney and Heat Beads® Drip Trays!

What you need to do:
Include footage of a bag of Heat Beads® BBQ Briquettes in your video. MAKE SURE you tag your video with these keywords so we can find it on YouTube:
* How to BBQ
* BBQ
* Barbecue
* Barbeque
* Grill
* Heat Beads® briquettes

The deadline for entries is Monday October 13. Winners will be notified via their YouTube profiles and the winning entries will be posted to the Heat Beads® Blog, Sizzle.

To be eligible for this competition, you must be a Heat Beads® BBQ News subscriber. Click here to subscribe.