OVER $13.6MILLION GIVEN TO 8 AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS & FAMILIES TO DATE April 2012

Who we are

In Australia there is only one 'Kids with Cancer Foundation' although many other children's charities will use our name in an attempt to benefit their own cause.  'Kids with Cancer Foundation (Australia) Limited' is the only children's cancer charity that has achieved such milestones.  The funds we raise from our own fundraising and the wonderful donations we receive from the public are not locked away, they are used for the purpose for which they were given, kids with cancer.

'Kids with Cancer Foundation Australia Limited' is a stand alone organisation and completely independent.  We are not associated with any other organisations that have chosen to look like us with similar sounding names such as: 'Kids Cancer Support Foundation' or 'Kids Cancer Australia' or 'Kids Cancer Research Trust'.  We don't use telemarketers to phone for donations, we are not associated in any way with 'Mycooee Foundation' or 'Teenage Cancer Research' or 'Cancer & Bowel Research Association' or 'Breast Cancer Australia'.  We do not use 'Voiceworks' as a telemarketing firm nor do we use 'Bulleseye Marketing', 'Cornucopia' or any of 'Appco's' associated companies to promote our lottery sales or donations.  None of our Board members or staff have ever worked for, or been on the Board or held a management position with these or any other charities.  Our auditors are independent company auditors, 'PriceWaterhouseCoopers'.  

There has been recent press concerning large dollar amounts of donations being taken by commercial traders (working on behalf of some charities) supposedly in order to set donors up on an ongoing credit card deduction.  90% or more can be taken from your donation by these commercial traders who will often door-knock at your home or business or use their paid telemarketers to call you at home and the charities that they work for approve it.   

We do not door-knock, we do not employ any telemarketers and we do not have commercial agreements setting supporters up for ongoing donations.  We are not & have never used ‘Appco’ or any of Appco’s associated companies as commercial traders on our behalf, and we never will. 

When you call our 1800 255 522 free call number, you speak directly with us and your donation goes directly to our Gift Account and remains untouched without any management fees and is passed on 100% to struggling families of kids with cancer all over Australia. 

The only way to ensure your entire donation is passed on to help the youngest of cancer sufferers is to call us directly.  No other children’s charity can make such a claim.

As an independent children's charity we have never employed the services of an outside telemarketing company to raise funds on our behalf.  If you choose to help kids with cancer do not give your details over to a commercial profit making telemarketing company or a commercial trader knocking on your door as it will not be Kids with Cancer who are calling.

A trustworthy telemarketing company that is employed by any charity to make tele sales should always announce who they work for in the first instance, and they should never state that they are raising funds for kids with cancer.  Always ask how much of the purchase price of an item, donation or ticket sale is passed to the charity, don't be hurried ask the questions, in NSW a commercial trader conducting a raffle on behalf of a charity can keep up to 90cents in every dollar. 

Before giving over your credit card details always ask if you are giving your personal details directly to the charity or to a commercial organisation. would you want a telemarketing company to have your credit card details?  Ask who will have your credit card details and who keeps the database of information on your purchases.  If the person phoning you does not declare who they actually work for without you having to ask, do not give your details.

Some commercial traders working for charities will withhold up to 90% of an initial donation, claiming it's needed to set up your account and the charities will allow it.  Our advice is not to deal with charities that allow similar large amounts to be taken from your donation.  Always deal directly with the charity to avoid excessive costs being taken from each dollar donated, and preventing the majority of your donation to a charity going to make the commercial traders even wealthier, while your chosen charity struggles.

As we make this promise to all our supporters and to ensure your donation is passed on in its entirety to struggling families of the youngest of kids with cancer, donate directly by free-calling:1800 255 522 or mail payments (including your details) to:

Kids with Cancer Foundation

PO Box 135 Westmead NSW 2145

The Foundation is a Public Benevolent Institution (PBI), a status granted by the Australian Tax Office (ATO).  Kids with Cancer Foundation (Australia) Limited, is an incorporated public company limited by guarantee, a non-profit charitable entity.

The ATO describes a Public Benevolent Institution as follows:

• A Public Benevolent Institution is an institution established and carried on for the relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, destitution or helplessness, and

• A Public Benevolent Institution makes its services available without discrimination to every member of the public which the organisation aims to benefit, and

• A Public Benevolent Institution is administered for the public good without purpose of private gain, and

• A Public Benevolent Institution provides direct relief for the benefit of a disadvantaged section of the public

Kids with Cancer Foundation received Australian Tax Office 'Deductible Gift Recipient' status (DGR) from the beginning, and all donations over $2 are tax deductible.  The Foundation is also endorsed by the ATO as an income exempt charitable organisation. 

We are a small independent children's charity.  We have no affiliation with any single children's hospital quite the reverse, as we have donated to eight separate hospitals so far and are keen to do much more.  We receive no Government assistance and have no corporate sponsors, the funds we raise come from our own efforts.  We raise the majority of our funds, by conducting continuous, successful lotteries (art unions/ raffles) 7 days a week all year round. We have marketed our $2 tickets through shopping centres in NSW, the ACT and  in Victoria, as well as through our national telemarketing office in Brisbane and it's the profits from these lotteries that we are able to pass on to benefit the children.

We have been granted 'Founder' status of 'The Children's Hospital at Westmead'.  'We are an original Inductee into Sydney Children's Hospital's 'Hall of Champions (their highest level of supporters) and at 'Monash Medical Centre' (Monash Children's Hospital) in Victoria we are the 'Founding Patron' of the 'Children's Cancer Centre' CCC, which was built and fitted out entirely with our donation to Monash Children's (Southern Health) of $1.157million and forms part of the Victorian Government's Paediatric Integrated Cancer Service (PICS). 

Other hospitals to receive our funding:

• Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital.

• John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle.

• The Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane.

• The Mater Children's Hospital Brisbane.

• Alice Springs Hospital.

Other hospitals where we have helped families with financial assistance:

• Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne

• Canberra Hospital

• Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth.  

Kids with Cancer Foundation commenced in December 1997  with the aim to provide funding for: childhood cancer sufferers, their families and other institutions that assist children with cancer. 

Through the social workers in our children's hospitals we provide financial assistance to the families of children with cancer.  We have in the past paid for small things like car repairs and rental accommodation for country based families and larger amounts such as, funeral expenses for families who have lost a child to cancer.  Through the requests of paediatric oncologists in these hospitals we provide assistance directly to the hospitals, improving the care of young cancer sufferers. 

Donations and Bequests that go into our Gift Account are separate and once received (unlike most charities) have no management fees deducted. Funds from our Gift Account are able to be passed on 100% to family assistance. All our running expenses such as prizes, rents, wages, etc. are borne by the lotteries.  Many families who have a child with cancer will need to up-root the family and move to the city to be close to the hospital that is caring for the child.  Sometimes one or both parents may need to give up their job temporarily to be at their child's side during treatment.  The strain on a family member needing to go to work every day knowing their child is in a cancer ward is sometimes overwhelming.  On average a family is personally $20,000 out of pocket due to their child falling ill with cancer and the only way the family unit can remain together is through financial assistance.  As we are Kids with Cancer Foundation we only care for the littlest of children from new born babies to young teenagers, we leave the adult care up to the many wonderful adult cancer charities.  When you make a donation to Kids with Cancer Foundation if you want you can select where you would like your donation to go:

• Family assistance, payment of bills etc.

• A child's funeral

• A children's hospital's oncology ward in your area

We urge you to consider the children in a hospital near you.  Please donate, post cheques to: Kids with Cancer Foundation, PO Box 135 Westmead NSW 2145 or for credit cards: free-call any donations to 1800 255522, and we guarantee that 100% of these donations will be passed to families, or use this Donate now button or at the top of the page.