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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:
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A Public Benevolent Institution
is an institution
established and carried on for the relief of poverty,
sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, destitution or
helplessness, and
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A Public Benevolent Institution
makes its services available
without discrimination to every member of the public which
the organisation aims to benefit, and
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A Public Benevolent Institution
is administered for the public
good without purpose of private gain, and
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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:
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Adelaide Women's and
Children's Hospital.
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John Hunter Hospital,
Newcastle.
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The Royal Children's
Hospital Brisbane.
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The Mater Children's
Hospital Brisbane.
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Alice Springs Hospital.
Other hospitals where we have
helped families with financial assistance:
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:
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.
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