Good and positivity can come of personal disaster.

Ask the Jones girls – Caitlan (or Cat), Ashleigh, Megan and Angela. They have vowed to make it happen for their Mum and Dad.

Ashleigh, 20, Megan, 18, with their parents Judi and Kevin Jones. Photo by Tracy Hardy.

The parents, in fact the whole Jones clan, took a hit late July when the workshop and woolshed on the family's Seaview Farm in Welcome Bay went up in flames.

'It was like a flash fire and the building was destroyed,” says Cat. And everything that a man needs to run a farm was in that shed.

Farmer Dad, Kevin, is a stoic and pragmatic man. He apparently said at the time: 'It's done now and we will do what we can and move on.”

He felt the full effect of the inferno next day. 'Dad went out to repair a fence but he didn't have anything to repair the fence with. It was pretty bad,” says Cat.

Grandfather Dennis Jones was upset and for good reason.

'He spent every day for years and years in that workshop,” says Cat. He tinkered with things, he fixed things and he made things.

It's a very family farm, all 32ha of it. It's been in the family three generations.

The electric fencing unit was in the shed when it went up. 'My uncle had a lot of equipment in that shed. He was a farm mechanic,” says Cat. All their tools, $3500 worth of calf feed, milk powder – all incinerated, all gone.

And the hay baler, the all-important baler that Kevin had patched together time and time again for just one more season's production was also gone.

And while the buildings were insured, his baler wasn't. Well, only for a nominal sum because it was so old.

When all this happened, the sisters got on social media, and said this terrible thing had happened and we need help.

That help flooded in – food, labour and support of every kind. 'It was fantastic,” says Cat.

But they needed a baler. 'To keep the farm going, for winter stock feed,” says Cat. 'We know how important it is and it's getting close to hay making season. Time was against us.”

Cat got thinking. 'We set up a Givealittle page, but that doesn't sit comfortably with us. We don't like handouts, people giving us money for nothing.”

And so the concept of the Seaview Gala Day was born.

'A fun day where people can come and give money but get something in return,” says Cat. 'Have a good day, play some games and smile because it's been a hard winter for a lot of people.”

The gala will include games, workshops, food stalls, a craft market, raffles, children's activities and a silent auction. And if they could raise anything like $18,000 for a good second-hand baler for Dad they would be very grateful.

'This is a way of repaying them. They work so hard, there is no such thing as a holiday, no such thing as a week. This is just cruel and didn't need to happen.”

And when the girls' mother Lindy turned out as an opening day volunteer for Welcome Bay Riding for the Disabled, she didn't realise the favour would be returned in a moment of need.

Riding for the Disabled has opened its Welcome Bay Road facility for the Seaview Gala Day from 11am to 5pm today.

Cat's being doing more thinking and she believes the humble fundraiser for a hay baler could become an annual event, supporting farmer suicide prevention.

'Many farmers survive on minimal sleep, do heavy labouring work daily, have 24/7, 365 day work schedules and don't enjoy the holidays many of us do,” says Cat. 'So you could help us help our nation's farmers.”