The inaugural Best Border Easter Egg Hunt will be held in Albury Botanic Gardens on March 18 to raise money for Albury-Wodonga’s headspace.

Hunt participants will search for coloured eggs planted around the gardens and go into the draw for 36 cash prizes ranging from $30 to the main prize of $2000.

Organiser Vince Glenane, of West Albury, said he had been keen to support a group that helped people with depression, an illness he himself battled several years ago.

“It’s a very serious sickness,” he said. “It’s when you find you wake all hours of the night and you’re crying, you sit beside the bed and wonder what you’re going to do in the next hour, let alone the next day.

“It’s enormous pressure on your family.

“Now when I hear people suffering from depression it gets to me again and I think what can I do?”

Mr Glenane has put up $5000 to donate to headspace, but he and the other organising committee members hope Easter egg hunt registrations and sponsorship bump up that total.

“Not that it’s going to fix everything, but if people can liaise with people who’ve got depression, it can be a tremendous help,” he said.

“It’s made me very motivated to go along with this.”