Fight Cancer Foundation

We need your help to ensure our nightly rates remain affordable, so we can continue to provide Australians with a home-away-from-home while undergoing treatment.

Donate by 30 June and your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar by a generous donor – giving your gift twice the impact for Australians fighting cancer.

Please donate today! https://bit.ly/44DFF9H

*A generous donor will match all gifts received by 30 June up to the value of $10,000

There’s still time to help Australians beat cancer… one stay at a time.

Donate before 30 June and for a short time, a generous donor will be matching every donation, dollar-for-dollar, so your gift will have twice the impact.

Stand in solidarity with Australians fighting cancer this tax-time and help us ensure they always have a home-away-from-home during treatment. https://bit.ly/44DFF9H

*A generous donor will match all gifts received by 30 June up to the value of $10,000

🌟 A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Amazing NAB Volunteers! 🌟

Yesterday, a dedicated group of Volunteers from NAB Bank came together to lend a helping hand at our BMDI Rotary House accommodation facility for our residents undergoing cancer treatment and their carers. The Volunteers compassion, energy, and hard work has made a huge difference in the lives of our residents and our wonderful staff.

Cancer treatment is a challenging journey, but with the support of our community, we can make it a little easier. Thank you to each and every Volunteer for your time, effort, and kindness. You are helping fuel the fight against cancer and truly making a positive impact! 💖

As we reflect on National Volunteer Week 2024 we would like to highlight the commitment and service of our Volunteers to Fight Cancer Foundation each and every day. It is because of our Volunteers that we can continue to build stronger communities, create meaningful change and support many Australians impacted by cancer.

We are grateful to each and everyone one of our Volunteers who are working tirelessly in our Recycle Shops and Accommodation Centres. You are helping fuel the fight against cancer, one stay at a time. Thank you for everything you do!

Photographed is Chief Operating Officer Nathan Preyser with Volunteers Nola from our Drysdale shop and Vivien from our Geelong shop.

A grade 3 breast cancer diagnosis was the last thing that professional athlete, teacher, and mother of three, Kim, had planned for.

With six weeks of radiation ahead of her in Albury – a two-and-a-half hour round trip away from her Northern Victorian property – we thankfully found Kim a room at our Hilltop Accommodation Centre in Albury Wodonga.

With rising cost-of-living pressures, we need your help to ensure our affordable accommodation remains affordable for people like Kim.

Please make your tax-deductible donation before 30 June to ease the burden for Australians fighting cancer. https://bit.ly/44DFF9H

Cancer treatment is hard enough; but so much harder when your treatment centre is far from home.

Kim and her husband’s farm was a two-and-a-half hour round trip from Albury Wodonga Cancer Centre, where she was to receive treatment.

Thankfully, we had a room available for Kim at our Hilltop Accommodation Centre close to the Cancer Centre, but there are many people like Kim, desperate to secure a room in one of our accommodation centres.

With rising cost-of-living pressures, we need your help to ensure Australians dealing with cancer have a home-away-from-home during treatment.

Please, give as generously as you can before June 30. https://bit.ly/44DFF9H

We’re incredibly proud to welcome Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC, the current Governor of Victoria, as a Patron of Fight Cancer Foundation. Professor Gardner has held various leadership positions in Australian universities throughout her career, including at the University of Queensland and Griffith University. Notably, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2007, in recognition of service to tertiary education, particularly in the areas of university governance and gender equity. Her patronage directly supports the work that we do – helping Australian families impacted by cancer.

See more of our patrons here:
https://bit.ly/3QNYfq7

TVH has already raised close to $4000 for their very first 2024 Footy Colours Day! This is well beyond their original target of $1000!

Thank you TVH and all of their incredible sponsors for their participation and support to help kids fight cancer.

Show your support by registering to participate in Footy Colours Day, the money raised through Footy Colours Day funds Fight Cancer Foundation's accommodation and research programs.

Register today at https://www.footycoloursday.com.au/

This week TVH will be hosting a Footy Colours Day to raise money for the Fight Cancer Foundation. We've been blown away by the generosity of some of our suppliers and friends who have donated an amazing array of prizes to be raffled off to raise money. The least we can do is to thank them publicly! So over the next few days, you'll see a few posts like this, thanking our friends for their support. Please consider supporting these businesses who have so generously supported us with this important event!

Ringwood Mazda
Summit Fleet Leasing and Management
Terry Shields Toyota
Camfil Australia & New Zealand
Actrol
Kirby HVACR
Pan Sport & Corporate Wear
Tamworth City Toyota

https://www.footycoloursday.com.au/fundraisers/TVH2024/footy-colours-day-2024-workplace

The 29th Annual Mayoral Art Exhibition is currently being held at the Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery in Ringwood.

Every year this event raises funds for Fight Cancer Foundation (FCF) and has done so for the last 29 years.

The exhibition is kindly supported by our FCF Croydon Branch and Fundraising Secretary, Mr Alan Somers (pictured here at the exhibition with two of FCF's Directors, Ms Susan Fetherston and Dr Carmel O'Brien) who established the branch over 35 years ago and has volunteered tirelessly for FCF for many years.

Thankyou to Alan and the members of our FCF Croydon Branch for their continued support of FCF. Thank you to Maroondah City Council and the Community Bank Ringwood East and Croydon for their generosity of sponsoring the Exhibition.

The exhibition is open until Saturday 4 May and free for everyone. Please come down and visit this wonderful exhibition!

If you're an art lover and are looking to purchase a new piece for your home or office, you may just find it here!

For more information - https://bit.ly/4aFJEVp

Our team had the wonderful opportunity to celebrate Chinese New Year at the 26th Chinese New Year Charity ball presented by the Australian Chinese Events Committee (ACEC) at Crown Palladium.

Fight Cancer Foundation was one of the chosen beneficiary charities from the ball. Thanks to the generous support from the ACEC we can continue to provide much-needed accommodation to Australian families impacted by cancer.

A huge thank you and congratulations to the ACEC and to all those involved in such a successful evening.

There have been many achievements and highlights at Fight Cancer Foundation over the last few months thanks to the kindness of supporters like you.

On behalf of our staff, patients and their families, we want to sincerely thank you for your ongoing support for Fight Cancer Foundation.

Take a look at what your kindness has managed to achieve.

Brave six-year-old Daisy Pearse is fighting cancer and winning.

But after the Pearse family was dealt the cancer diagnosis, they were thrust into the awful predicament of having no fixed place to live while Daisy was in hospital.

Fight Cancer Foundation found the Pearse family a long-term accommodation solution so the family could stay together, and you can help us do the same for other families too.

Please donate today.
https://donate.fightcancer.org.au/your-impact-autumn2024

Fight Cancer Foundation is delighted to announce the permanent appointment of Cara Davey as the new Chief Executive Officer.

Cara has been leading Fight Cancer Foundation since her appointment as Acting Chief Executive Officer in April 2023.

Cara has an impressive career which spans over 20 years. She hails originally from Melbourne and has both local and international experience in the corporate and non-profit sectors. This includes aspects such as, strategic branding, marketing and design, fundraising and general organisational management. As well as her experience, Cara brings an exuberance and passion for the objectives of Fight Cancer Foundation to ensure residents, children and families receive the best care during their treatment.

Cara prides herself on creating meaningful relationships and alliances to optimise organisational capacity and elevate opportunities across the not-for-profit sector. Her vision for Fight Cancer Foundation both honours the 30 years of incredible support for people impacted by cancer, as well as creating a future for the Foundation that amplifies and diversifies the way it supports people through treatment.

“I believe that Fight Cancer Foundation is full of heart and hope for the future. I know together we will create, innovate and evolve to meet the ever-changing landscape for those impacted by cancer.”

Cancer doesn’t take a holiday.

Our Accommodation Centres provide much-needed comfortable and affordable accommodation for seriously ill patients, children and families who must travel long distances to access lifesaving medical treatment – 365 days every year.

This Christmas you can make sure the patients, children and families have a home-away-from-home as they take on the fight against cancer, sometimes hundreds of kilometres away from loved ones, their home and their Christmas traditions.

Please donate today so children fighting cancer, and their loved ones, have a home-away-from-home this Christmas!

https://donate.fightcancer.org.au/heartandhope

We’re in the lucky 💯! Thank you to Masseuse Massage Chairs for generously donating this Chiro Plus chair to our Hilltop - Albury Wodonga accommodation centre as part of their 100 Chairs in 100 Days giveaway! Resident Kim gives our new chair a big thumbs up.

If you like would like to help residents like Kim and give them heart and hope this festive season, please donate today!

https://donate.fightcancer.org.au/heartandhope

The emotional and financial toll a cancer diagnosis has on families is devastating. Those who don’t live close to a treating hospital face the added challenge of finding somewhere to live while their loved one receives and recovers from treatment.

The need for treatment is often urgent, leaving patients and parents with limited time to arrange a place to stay close to the hospital. The unknowns surrounding treatment and recovery also means families don’t know how long they will be away from home.

This is where YOU and Fight Cancers Foundations Accommodation Centres come in – giving patients and families a home-away-from-home while they navigate the emotional turmoil of fighting cancer is vital.

Your donation this Christmas could give cancer patients and their families a home-away-from-home this Christmas!

https://donate.fightcancer.org.au/heartandhope

Our Founding Families began a transformational legacy over 34 years ago that continues to give hope and heart to hundreds of patients, children and families fighting cancer each year.

Kat and her brother Robbie were part of that foundation. While Robbie’s journey ended tragically, his family helped create a legacy and Robbie’s memory is treasured by all of us today.

“I feel Fight Cancer Foundation is my brother’s legacy, and all the children and adults who didn’t make it,” shares Kat.

You can help continue that legacy.

Give hope to cancer patients and their families by supporting research and home-away-from-home Accommodation Centres this Christmas.

https://donate.fightcancer.org.au/heartandhope

Have you heard Karen’s amazing story of survival?

Her perfectly normal life changed forever when she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia when she was only 22.

“At that time, leukaemia was usually a death sentence. A perfect [bone marrow] match was rare – only 1 in 7 family members might be a match,” she shares.
Karen was lucky – her twin sister Michelle was a perfect match. But it was a long, hard fight to survive! Karen was in hospital for over 5 months.

Please donate today so families like Karen’s have a home-away-from-home this Christmas!

https://donate.fightcancer.org.au/heartandhope

Thanks to generous, caring people like you, we are able to provide families with a home-away-from-home when they need it most.

In the past 12 months alone, more than 16,000 nights of accommodation have been provided to people and families impacted by cancer. Thank you!

Read more about Our Families and Your IMPACT here: https://ow.ly/XtKW50PQr9V and hear from Shea here: https://youtube.com/shorts/ySm8IG_6XNg?si=vBu_ssLwr_L3G7-a

Thank you, Deloitte.

It may seem like cleaning up car parks, stairwells, and storage cupboards is a small thing - but this is what makes our Accommodation Centres a safe, hygienic home-away-from-home for families and individuals impacted by cancer.

Thank you for volunteering your time at Fight Cancer Foundation's BMDI Rotary House - we appreciate you and your contribution.

Our Community is the backbone of Fight Cancer Foundation and our volunteer branches go back to when we began in 1989.

Learn all about their amazing fundraising efforts in the latest edition of Your IMPACT – from an exhibition of Hugh Jackman’s artwork at the Swan Hill Art Show to the delicious jams, jellies, cakes and preserves up for grabs at the CWA Lindisfarne Shop in Tassie!

Read the Spring edition of Your IMPACT here: https://ow.ly/SBEi50PQr6I

Say hello to the Albury-Wodonga’s community hosting their monthly morning tea for guests at Hilltop Accommodation Centre!

Not only are our Accommodation Centres a home-away-from-home for hundreds of families and individuals each year when families must travel to access cancer treatment… they also build a strong, supportive community within the centre and in their wider communities.

Read more about Our Services and Your IMPACT here: https://ow.ly/aE7P50PQr5e

Discover the impact YOU are making every single day! Read the latest edition of Your IMPACT and discover the power of your support – providing safe, comfortable, and affordable accommodation to families impacted by cancer. https://ow.ly/gSn150PQr4p

We don’t like to pick sides, but we’re pretty excited to see Footy Colours Ambassador Tom De Koning be “in the air” again this weekend!

It’s shaping up to a be a great weekend of interstate rivalry, so why not host a prelim Footy Colours Watch Party?!

Carlton v Lions, Collingwood v GWS = Queensland v Victoria. It’s all happening!

🎶 De Koning’s in the air! 🎶