100% of all direct donations
to Kids with Cancer Foundation are passed on to struggling families
of kids with cancer.
No management fees, salaries or any running
costs of the Foundation are taken from our 'Gift Account',
and that is our promise to cancer families and our supporters.
Our donations are only used for families who
are struggling financially, and have a child in one of our
Australian children's hospitals being treated for childhood
cancer.
Cancer families must travel to
a major city children's hospital to have their child
treated, and the cost can cripple a family's available
income over this treatment period, which is at the least
months and usually years. We have no maximum dollar
amount per family/per year as we take each social worker's
request on merit when it's received.
You can help a family of a
young child with cancer today, by ensuring that your donation to a
children's cancer charity will get through to the kids in its
entirety.
Donate by free call to:
1800 255522, or
mail cheques to, Kids with Cancer Foundation PO Box 135
Westmead NSW 2145.
OUR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR:
Since October 1998 we have
been providing funds to children’s hospitals, and families
of kids with cancer. The vast majority of our funds
come from the sale of our $2 lottery tickets.
OVER
$13.1MILLION GIVEN TO
8 AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS &
FAMILIES
TO DATE
DECEMBER2011
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.
We have always given our
funds to where the specialist Oncologists think it will do
the most
good for the kids.
In September 2009 Kids
with Cancer Foundation, as the largest ever donor to
the 'Children's Cancer Centre & Blood Disorders Unit' was amongst the first
benefactors to be inaugurated into the:
Sydney
Children's Hospital's
"Hall of Champions"
Pictured is Jack Ford, Chairman of Sydney Children's
Hospital Foundation,
Peter Bodman and Sydney Children's CEO,
Prof Les White.
July 22, 2010
With
our first of five pledged $300,000 payments to fund the new
Cancer Research Unit, in June 2011 Kids with Cancer
Foundation became the largest ever donor to Sydney
Children's Hospital.
We are proud of our ongoing
association with Sydney Children's and it is only with the
continued help from our millions of supporters that this
milestone has been reached. As an independent
children's charity we receive no Government nor corporate
assistance, it has been achieved in a relatively short
period of time and forms just part of our total assistance
to eight children's hospitals and hundreds of families.
1998 Our first year
raising money for the kids
1998
$150,109.00
Grade 1
Clinical Oncology Pharmacist 3 years funding.
Telemedicine/Telehealth, video conferencing hardware
and software computer link $21,000.00, and
Notebook Computer.
On
costs to the Telemedicine/Telehealth Unit $21,000.00.
Research
Psychologist $50,000.00.
Clinical Research Associate $14,552.00
The Senior Oncologist at
Randwick, Ass. Prof. Glen Marshall wrote in 1999: “So far the
Foundation has made special things, which in the past we
only dreamed of possible. With the limited funds available
from the government for the provision of clinical services,
it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide what we
believe is quality care for children and their families
affected by childhood cancer. The three donations made by
the Foundation have made a vital contribution to our efforts
to provide high quality care to our patients”.
The
refurbished Kids with Cancer
Foundation Day Ward at Sydney Children's Hospital (above)
opened in 2006 after a donation of $500,000 from the
Foundation.
Staff of the
Kids with Cancer Foundation Day Ward at Sydney Children's
Hospital,
dressed for
the day in our Polo Shirts
Executive Director, Peter Bodman receives a plaque on behalf of
Kids with Cancer
Foundation, as the
sponsor of the new Day Ward
2007$344,196.00
‘Clinical Nurse
Consultant $80,000
Behavioural
Sciences Researcher $81,900.00
Data
Manager $47,570.00
Pharmacist $76,000.00
Social Worker $58,726.00
“The five staff positions
that Kids with Cancer Foundation supports are important
roles and each contribute greatly to our team of dedicated
and motivated professionals at
CCC&BD. We couldn’t do without the generosity of Kids with
Cancer Foundation who enable such skilled people to work
together to strive to achieve our goal of curing 100% of
childhood cancers.”
said Professor Glenn Marshall, Director of
Children's Cancer Centre& Blood Disorders, 2007.
Thank you Kids with Cancer
Foundation from the bottom of our hearts for your
generosity.
2008$386,426.00
‘Research Assistant
for the clinical trials unit to test new treatment
for children with incurable cancer $110,000
Behavioural
Sciences Researcher (part time) $26,160.00, Senior
Researcher $46,870, Research Assistant $40,330 and
PhD Scholarship $28,340.00 for the 'Kids with Cancer
Foundation Behavoural Sciences Program'
Pharmacist $76,000.00
Social Worker $58,726.00 in September 2008
Pictured on
the left, Senior Oncologist Dr. Richard Cohn, Head
of Clinical Oncology , Professor Les White AM, Executive
Director Sydney Children's Hospital receiving the cheque for
$327,700 from the Foundation's Peter Bodman, in April 2008.
Dad Mark from Dubbo
NSW and patient Jenna pose for a more formal photo on the
day
in the 'Kids with Cancer Foundation Day Ward'.
Cancer
Therapies Unit Gets the Green Light to Test Innovative
Cancer Treatments
for
Children with Incurable Cancer
MEDIA RELEASE:
Kids with Cancer Foundation, has pledged/paid $110,000 to
set up a Cancer Therapies Unit at the Centre for Children’s
Cancer and Blood Disorders (CCC&BD) at Sydney Children’s
Hospital, Randwick. The therapies unit will open in June
2008, and will start testing new cancer medications that
have the potential to cure the 30% of children whose cancer
does not respond to current treatments, such as chemotherapy
and radiotherapy.
“This is an essential innovation
for Sydney Children’s Hospital’s cancer services,”
said the Head of the new unit, Dr David Ziegler.
“There is a growing awareness that we have probably achieved
the maximum amount we can achieve with therapies that are
currently available.”
“It is critical that we look for new ways to treat and cure
cancer in children. Patients who will benefit from the new
therapies unit include children who suffer negative side
effects from current treatments, such as hair loss, nausea
and weakening of the immune system. Most importantly we will
be able to test new treatments for those children who do not
respond to current therapies at all, and who until now have
had no other option than being placed on palliative care,”
said Dr Ziegler.
The generosity of Kids with Cancer Foundation will enable
the unit to combine the expertise Dr Ziegler has acquired
training overseas at Harvard Medical School, with
established research programs. The unit’s aim is to
translate innovative Australian discoveries from the
laboratory bench to the bedsides of children suffering from
incurable cancers.
Peter Bodman, Executive Director, Kids with Cancer
Foundation said, ‘Kids with Cancer Foundation are very proud
of the long standing relationship we have with Sydney
Children’s Hospital. Having donated more than $3,325,000
over the past 10 years to CCC&BD, we are excited to be able
to fund this vital innovation in cancer services. We expect
the next few years will see the development of new cancer
cures, which Australian children will be amongst the first
in the world to receive. We are honoured to play a part in
helping these remarkable and brave young patients survive
cancer, and go on to lead normal, healthy lives.”
Adam
Check, Chief Executive Officer at Sydney Children’s Hospital
Foundation says “We are deeply
grateful for the extraordinary partnership between the Kids
with Cancer Foundation and the Sydney Children’s Hospital,
specifically the Centre for Children’s Cancer and Blood
Disorders. We are able to make a difference in the lives of
seriously ill children thanks to your support.”
From the
patients, families and staff at Sydney Children’s
Hospital we thank Kids with Cancer Foundation for
making an enormous difference for children with cancer.
2009$403,014.00
‘Research Assistant
for the clinical trials unit to test new treatment
for children with incurable cancer $110,000
Kids with Cancer
Foundation Behavoural Sciences Program: Behavioural
Sciences Researcher (part time) Senior
Researcher, Research Assistant and PhD Scholarship
$141,700.00
Pharmacist $86,202.00
Social Worker $65,112.00
“On behalf
of the patients, families & staff at Sydney Children's
Hospital we thank you for your most recent donation.
Your ongoing support for the Oncology Social Work Service is
an extraordinary gift enabling us to offer the best possible
care to children with cancer & their families".
Kate Garrard, Sponsorship Manager Nov. 2009.
2010$430,462.00
Pharmacist $92,955
‘Research Assistant
for the 'Help Cure Incurable Cancers Clinical Trials
Unit' to test new treatment
for children with incurable cancer $110,000
'Kids with Cancer
Foundation Behavioural Sciences Research Program': Behavioural
Sciences Researcher (part time) Senior
Researcher, Research Assistant and PhD Scholarship
$131,207.00
Gold Week Telethon
$30,000 to offset the cost of chemo drugs for the
CCC & BD
Social Worker $66,336
Sydney Children's,
Gold Week Telethon donation: $30,000 to offset families drug
costs.
Many of our
children come to the Hospital with very rare forms of
cancer, and of these there are a few for whom outcomes may
not always be positive. With many of the drugs that can
provide the care and treatment for these rare forms of
cancer not covered by the PBS, CCC&BD has required over
$100,000 worth of extra drug costs alone this year. These
drugs are essential to the care for our children, many of
whom would not survive without them, and when combined with
treatments such as a Bone Marrow Transplant, these drugs
provide the best outcomes for our most vulnerable
children. With your continued support, CCC&BD will continue
to meet its goals of providing the best possible care for
our brave young oncology patients and their family both now,
and for the future.
Your support for these essential drugs has
quite simply saved the lives of children who would not be
alive today without these drugs, so thank you. Louise Claridge, Sponsorship Manager
July 2010.
Louise Claridge,
Partnership Manager and Rebecca Havas, Fundraising Manager from
Sydney Children's
Hospital's Foundation
at the cheque presentation for
the social work position, September 2010.
The
Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, has some very brave
children fighting serious illnesses they can often find hard
to accept and, even harder to understand. Your support
ensures the future success of our vital medical programmes
and services, so our children can be cared for and treated
by the most up-to-date methods available.
Thank you once again for your generosity. Your concern and
support for our children and their families is greatly
appreciated.
Adam Check, Chief Executive Officer, Sydney Children’s
Hospital Foundation
2010.
2011$857,370.00
Pharmacist $85,280
Part time Psychologist
(CCC&BD) $50,000
*Part time
Psychologist, Long-Term Follow-Up Clinic for
survivors of childhood cancer $60,000
Kids with Cancer
Foundation Behavioural Sciences Research Program': Behavioural
Sciences Researcher (part time) Senior
Researcher, Research Assistant and PhD Scholarship
$120,372.00
Research Assistants
for the 'Help Cure Incurable Cancers Clinical Trials
Unit' to test new treatment for children with
incurable cancer, two positions $180,000
$300,000 as the
initial payment of $1.5million to fund a better
Cancer Research Centre providing an
increase in clinical, research staff and fellows
from 25 to 45 people
Social Worker $60,859
Adam Check CEO of Sydney Children's
Hospital's Foundation
happily accepts a cheque in
May 2011 for over $300,000
On behalf of
all the team at Sydney Children’s Hospital and the
Foundation we would like to express our heartfelt thanks for
your ongoing support.
With your
continued support, CCC&BD can continue to meet its goals of
providing the best possible care for our brave young
oncology patients and their family both now, and for the
future. We know you will share in our sense of pride in the
amazing achievements and the enormous benefits we, in
partnership, have delivered to the children of NSW.
Peter, please pass on our sincere thanks to the entire Kids
with Cancer Foundation team, we are truly privileged to be
the beneficiaries of your philanthropy.
Adam Check.
Cancer
Research Centre
$1.5million pledge:
The creation
of this space is an important development in the integration
of service delivery with research functions. The new Cancer
Research Centre, under the leadership of Prof. Glenn
Marshall, is one of three strategic capital priorities which
currently exist on the Randwick Campus of the Sydney
Children’s Hospitals Network.
As you are
well aware through your ongoing and generous support, the
Hospital’s Centre for Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders
is internationally renowned for its work in treating
children with complex blood disorders and cancers. This new
Centre — which has been in planning from some time — will
dramatically improve our research endeavours.
The Centre
will provide the best possible infrastructure for our
researchers to congregate and focus on applying new
therapeutic techniques and drug discovery at the
clinical-face, where the majority of our work occurs. The
Centre is ‘best-practice’ in terms of clinically-driven
research, where a critical mass of professionals including
senior clinicians, research scientists and data analysts can
work together, in one space, to continue our goal of working
towards 100% survival for children with cancer.
Elizabeth Koff, Chief
Executive, The Sydney Children's Hospitals Network (Randwick
and Westmead)
*Part time Psychologist,
Long-Term Follow-Up Clinic
As
well as the physical impact, childhood cancer and its
treatment may have a serious psychological impact, with
survivors experiencing fear of cancer returning and
uncertainty about the future, practical and social
consequences, changed roles, and discrimination and
insurance issues. Multiple studies and reviews have
investigated the long term psychological aftermath of
childhood cancer and have reported that survivors are at
increased risk of depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress
and reduced quality of life compared to their peers and
siblings. As the number of children surviving cancer
continues to increase, we need to better understand their
needs and concerns and provide better services to support
them.
For children, many late effects are not detectable at the
end of treatment. Instead, they become obvious only when the
child grows and matures, meaning that the provision of
medical and psychological care for many years post-treatment
is essential. As well, we need more research and better
coordination of after-cancer psychological care to identify
potential psychological and practical problems (and risk
factors for these) and to prevent or address them early and
appropriately.
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.
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
over
$3.9million
donated since 1998
In 2005, Kids with Cancer Foundation was made a Founder of
Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children
(The Children's Hospital at Westmead)
1998 Our first year
raising money for the kids,
$100,948.00
Oncology
Fellowship $50,00.00
Senior Oncology
Pharmacist $46,000.00,
Data Manager $30,000.00
Notebook
Computer $4,948.00.
The Senior Oncologist at
Westmead, Dr Michael Stevens, wrote in 1998:
“My colleagues
in the Oncology Unit join me in thanking you and your
colleagues for this outstanding and generous support, and
look forward to our continuing association for the benefit
of children with cancer and their families throughout New
South Wales”
1999
$276,500.00
Senior Oncology
Fellowship $50,000.00,
Data Manager $30,000.00,
Oncology Pharmacist
$46,000.00,
Research Assistant (Gene
Therapy) $63,000.00
Research Assistant (Unit
D52 Gene
Clinical) $37,500.00
over $50,000 for project
and laboratory consumables as well as work station
and software.
2000
$158,805.00
Clinical Oncology
Fellow $83,375.00.
The Long Term Survivor Clinic
$28,750.00.
Clinical Research
Associate-Data Manager $46,680.00.
$231,878.00
cheque presentation to
The Children's Hospital
at Westmead
Left
to right: Dr. Michael Stevens, Senior Staff
Specialist Oncology Unit, Westmead. Lynne Bodman
co-founder Kids with Cancer Foundation Australia. Nicola Mackay, Fundraising Manager (Oncology) Westmead.
Founder status granted
SEPTEMBER 2005
The Foundation was
granted the status of Founder of
The Children's Hospital at
Westmead
"As
a wonderful and long term friend of the hospital,
Kids with Cancer Foundation has been granted the
status of Founder this year. Congratulations
on this amazing achievement.
Your
support over the last seven years and the magnificent
contribution that you have all made to the Oncology unit is
to be applauded. You have made a real difference to
children with cancer and their families that we care for.
Without your support of key positions within the team, we
would, quite simply, not be able to offer the level of
support that we currently do to children and their families.
I know that
you all work very hard to be able to support us like you do
and on behalf of all the Oncology team here at the hospital,
I want to say congratulations and
thank you for
being our friends in the fight against childhood cancer."
Niki Mackay, Account Manager, Oncology
Unit.
"These positions
(social work)
allow us to
provide a high level of diverse support to children
diagnosed with cancer and their families. We are
delighted at how the social work service is developing
and the number of children and families we are able to
assist with the support of Kids with Cancer Foundation"
said Lyn Biviano, Head, Department of Social Work,
November 2006.MORE
June 2007, $61,903.00
cheque presentation to
The Children's Hospital at
Westmead
Left
to right: Vittoria Vitali, Kids with Cancer
Foundation's Office Manager presents Lisa McGinty, from
Westmead's Fundraising Department and Melanie Boulton,
oncology social worker with the cheque to support Melanie's
position at the children's hospital.
2 laptop computers for the
kids in the Oncology Ward $3,300.00
The Oncology
Unit at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is the largest
childhood cancer unit in NSW. Kids with Cancer Foundation is
a generous and long-standing partner of The Oncology Unit’s
clinical and research programs and shares our commitment to
saving lives and supporting children with cancer and their
families.
Kids with Cancer Foundation have supported the Unit for many
years and we are extremely appreciative of their hard work
and efforts. The positions funded through Kids with Cancer
Foundation directly benefit the children and families in our
care and make an enormous difference to their lives as they
travel through the cancer journey. The Foundation has
the status of Founder at the hospital in recognition of
their invaluable contribution to The Oncology Unit and The
Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
In 2008 we gave two Mac laptop
computers to the Oncology Play Therapist, Cathy Quinn at
Westmead. The kids in the oncology ward use the Macs
to occupy their time while they are in the ward for
treatment.
The Macs allow
the kids via the inbuilt camera, microphone and music
software to create music and songs as well as images of
their visitors and nursing staff as a slide show and share
them with others in the Oncology ward. Their visitors
are able to download recent images or movies of family
events away from the hospital for the kids to watch.
A donation to the
Foundation of just $1,700 will allow us to place another
laptop in a children's oncology ward near you.
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.
You
would be fully aware of how strenuously we strive to
improve the cure rate and
quality of life for the children we treat and that
your contribution and that of your
team in supporting our efforts is of immense value.
Thank you from all of us, for helping to support
each child and family undergoing
treatment for cancer. Everyone should know that the
support from Kids with Cancer
Foundation underpins and adds quality to the care
and services that we at The
Children’s Hospital at Westmead are able to provide.
Doctor Luciano Dalla-Pozza, Senior Staff Specialist,
Head, Oncology Unit. March 2009
Kids with
Cancer Foundation is a valued partner of the work we do at
the Oncology Department. Kids with Cancer Foundation shares
our commitment to supporting and impacting the lives of
children diagnosed and managing cancer and their families.
Without the support of Kids with Cancer Foundation in
funding the various programs — our work would not be
possible. The positions supported through Kids with Cancer
Foundation directly benefit the children and families in our
care and make an enormous difference to their lives not
just now but in the future. The Children’s Hospital at
Westmead is proud and appreciative of our partnership with
the Foundation recognised as 'Founder' of the Hospital.
April
2010
2011
$524,565
2011 is our 12th year
of support for the Oncology Fellow at The Children's
Hospital at Westmead
and our 8th year of
support for 3 social workers, 2 at Westmead and 1 at
Sydney Children's.
The Oncology
Department at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is the
largest childhood cancer department in NSW. Each year in NSW
approximately 250 new children are diagnosed with cancer. We
are responsible for the care of between 120 and 150 of these
new patients and their families. Since 1976 more than 3,000
children have received treatment for cancer in our
department and more than 2,200 of these patients are
long-term survivors. Back in 1976 when our unit opened its
doors, most children with cancer died. Now, because of
intense and focused research, there have been vast
improvements in treatment and supportive care and, 4 out of
5 children survive cancer permanently.
The
department’s multi-disciplinary approach to curing children
with cancer means that the unique needs and concerns of each
patient and their families can be individually addressed.
Quality of life is particularly important to our young
patients and their families. We have an array of specialists
on call to help support each child and family through
tailored treatment programs. These include psychologists,
social workers, child life (play) therapists, specialist
nurses, teachers, and paediatric fellows.
The
exceptional calibre of the department’s staff underpins the
firm foundation of our childhood cancer treatment program.
Our team provides not only medical excellence which is
delivered with sensitivity, but also emotional support to
children and their families.
Sustaining
existing programs and developing new initiatives to explore
research and treatment opportunities are not possible
without the support of our partners ids with Cancer
Foundation is a valued partner of the work we do at the
Oncology Department. Kids with Cancer Foundation shares our
commitment to supporting and impacting the lives of
children diagnosed with and managing cancer. Kids with
Cancer Foundation recognises the need to treat the family
rather than the individual and without the support of Kids
with Cancer Foundation in funding the various programs,
this holistic approach to our work would not be possible.
The positions
supported through Kids with Cancer Foundation directly
benefit the children and families in our care and make an
enormous difference to their lives not just now but in the
future. The Children’s Hospital at Westmead is proud and
appreciative of our partnership with the Foundation
recognised as Founder of the Hospital.
The Hospitals’
greatest asset is our staff and we seek support from Kids
with Cancer Foundation to continue their invaluable
partnership to the Oncology Department in funding these
critical positions within our childhood cancer treatment
program. March 2011
In 2011 we donated 2 Apple iPads to
remain as the property of the Social Work Unit for the use
of children in isolation, as well as for families to take
home when children were allowed home yet to return as
outpatients. Pictured is Social
Worker Jessica Watt.
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.
Founding Patron of the 'Children's Cancer
Centre'
Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne
Monash Children's
Hospital
$1.157million
Kids with Cancer Foundation donated
$1.157million to build and fit-out the 'Children's Cancer
Centre'. In 2006
Kids with Cancer Foundation
was recognised as the
Founding Patron of the Monash 'CCC'.
'Children's Cancer Centre'
Monash Children's is
part of Victoria’s largest health service uniquely providing
in one organisation, primary, secondary and tertiary health
services. The Monash Children’s Cancer Centre is an integral
part of the new Monash Children’s and cares for 30% of
Victoria’s childhood cancer patients. The centre
incorporates purpose-built treatment rooms, medical
consulting rooms, a day treatment facility and an innovative
facility capable of providing general anaesthesia for minor
oncology procedures.
The Minister
said the new centre was an integral part of the Government's
new Paediatric Integrated Cancer Services, which aims to
streamline treatment for young patients.
"The new centre means children going
through a very difficult illness will have state-of-the-art
facilities and more integrated, co-ordinated care. The Children's Cancer
Centre at Monash is now introducing innovations in the way
kids are treated for cancer, for example, this is the first
facility in the State to be able to anaesthetise children
without having to send them to an operating theatre."
Ms Pike said.
Without the million
dollar plus gift provided by Kids with Cancer Foundation the
new purpose built day oncology facilities might never have
seen the light of day. Now treatment for Victorian
children with cancer has been significantly boosted and the
more than 100 parents, patients and a clearly excited group
of Southern Health staff and dignitaries who attended the
launch on July 25 were thrilled at the great leap forward. said Southern
Health Chief Executive Linda Sorrell.
A note from a
mother:
"A few weeks ago I purchased some raffle
tickets at a shopping centre in Melbourne. My daughter has
newly been diagnosed with ALL so when I see a cancer charity
I tend to always give what I can.
I had not heard of your charity before and was not sure what
the money went to. I was just thinking about this so I
thought I would have a look at your website. It made me
teary! I had no idea that the place that is now my second
home was build thanks to you. My daughter’s treatment is at
the Monash Children’s Cancer Centre. I just wish to thank
you so much for your efforts in raising this money. It is
such a fantastic relaxed environment. I couldn't imagine how
hard it would be if the CCC was not there.
Once again just thank you so very much,
it means the world to us and many other families. In the
future I wish to be able to help even half as much as you
have".
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.
Kids with Cancer Foundation
had originally approached the 'Royal
Children's Hospital', 'Monash Medical Centre' and 'Peter
McCallum Cancer Institute' with an offer of funding but it
was rejected.
The parents group had been working with Southern
Health and Monash to provide more kids cancer services in
Clayton but funds were the problem. Our funds were
still available and we were asked to provide all the funds to construct and
fit-out the
new Day Ward.
Since our
first payment of $650,000 the Victorian Government announced
the new Paediatric Integrated Cancer Services group, PICS.
The size of the project changed and the total funds required
to complete the Day Ward has risen to $1.157m. We were
pleased to be able to provide the total funds on behalf of
our supporters to Southern
Health/Monash Medical Centre, to complete the program.
The funds we
have provided, come from the $2 raffle tickets we sell in
Victorian shopping centres. Help us to continue our
support of Victorian cancer sufferers by buying $2 tickets
when you see our displays.
2004 - Initial funding for the construction and fit-out of the new
Paediatric Oncology Day Ward $650,000.
2005 - Further funding for the construction and
fit-out of the Children's Cancer Centre at
Monash, bringing our total commitment to $1.157m
Peter Bodman, Kids
with Cancer presents the cheque to Linda Sorell,
Chief Executive, Monash Children's.
Work commenced late 2005 on the new Children's
Cancer Centre, completely funded
with a donation of $1.157m
by the Kids with
Cancer Foundation's Victorian raffles.
Premier's comment:In July 2005 the
Premier, The Hon. Steve Bracks wrote: "These
projects represent the achievement of key milestones in my
Government's Fighting Cancer Policy and Cancer Services
Framework for Victoria. Once again thank you for your
generous, ongoing support towards the well-being of children
with cancer and their
families".
Founding Patron of the 'Children's Cancer
Centre'
at, Monash Children's.
In
2006, Kids with Cancer Foundation was officially recognised
as 'The Founding Patron' of the 'Children's Cancer Centre'
at Monash
Medical Centre.
The completed 'CCC' and the plaque erected in our
honour outside the Ward
The new Children's Cancer Centre was officially opened in July 2006 by
the Minister for Health Bronwyn Pike. The $1.157
million dollar gift is one of the largest individual gifts
ever received by Southern Health. The Children's
Cancer Centre
incorporates purpose-built treatment rooms, a spacious
waiting area, consulting space and enhanced resources.
The new unit will care for 20-30 per cent of Victoria's
childhood cancer patients and is situated near the main
entrance, which will make it more accessible, providing a
child and family-friendly environment.
Mr Bodman said he was
pleased to return the proceeds of the raffles his Foundation
conducted in Victoria to help kids suffering from cancer and
he personally thanked those many Victorians who had
purchased tickets in the various car raffles for providing
the funds used to create the Children's Cancer Centre.
"We are so pleased to be able to complete work on this
eagerly-anticipated project", said Southern
Health Chief Executive Linda Sorrell.
"The new facilities promise to
provide even better care for some of our youngest and most
vulnerable patients. It is fantastic that we have also
received such generous community support through our
partnership with, Kids with Cancer Foundation"
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.
Women’s and Children’s Hospital Adelaide since 2003:
2004 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, Dr Michael Osborn, $99,000.
2005 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, Dr Michael Osborn, $108,797.
2007 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, Dr Julius Scott $108,797.
2008 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, Dr Julius Scott $115,402.
2009 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, $115,402.
2010 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, $120,560.
2011 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, Dr Jordan Hansford $133,475
2012 - Kids with Cancer
Clinical Fellowship, Dr Jordan Hansford $136.290
Since 2003 it's been our great pleasure to
have a partnership with the Women's & Children's Hospital in
Adelaide SA and we hope with the help of our supporters to
continue as the sponsor of the Clinical Oncology Fellowship.
Your support has been most sincerely
appreciated in the past and I doubt that we could
have maintained the quality of service to the
children with cancer and their families without the
financial support provided by the Kids with Cancer
Foundation.
Dr.
Heather Tapp, Acting Head, Oncology.
We urge you to consider the children in all hospitals and if
you are a South Australian resident to think of the kids in
your children's hospital. 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.
Half time
paediatric oncology Pharmacist for two years, $85,000.
Half time Nurse Educator,
Ward re-furbishment, total
in excess of $160,000.
2004: Data Manager, part
funding $23,000.00, and a further commitment for 2005/2006
$46,000.00.
2005: Colour Printer
$5,629.80
2008:
$250,000 to part fund the
new Oncology Day Unit
$16,166.00 to part fund
the Late Effects Coordinator. 1st of 3 pledged payments
2010: $32,332.00 to part fund
the Late Effects Coordinator, 2nd & 3rd pledged payments
"We
are very thankful for your support of our Late Effects
Coordinator. It has made a significant
difference to the co-ordination of the care of children who
have completed their therapy and are
most likely cured of their disease but who need follow-up
for any toxicities from the therapy that
they have received. This will go a long way towards
providing the support that these individuals
and their families need".
Dr. Frank Alvaro
The Foundation was pleased to receive a
certificate of recognition in July 2008 from Senior Staff
Specialist Dr. Frank Alvaro, after donating $250,000 from
the sale of our $2.00 raffle tickets in Newcastle shopping
centres.
"On behalf of the children of
the Hunter New England region that receive cancer and
haematology services at the John Hunter Children’s Hospital
please accept our gratitude and sincere appreciation for the
wonderful contribution of Kids With Cancer in helping us
construct our new Oncology Day Unit.
The Kids with Cancer
Foundation has played a significant role in bringing this
project to fruition. Now, we can ensure that our
patients have access to the highest quality of care and we
know we have the potential to enhance and expand that care
to continue delivering best practice in oncological care for
children and young people."
Dr. Frank Alvaro
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.
Alice Springs Hospital, Northern Territory:
2001- Video Conference
System and the outfitting of a designated oncology room in the Paediatric Ward, total in excess of $57,000.
2000 - Cadd Pumps,
blood pressure machine, recliner chairs and part sponsor
of the Home Care Program.
Your generous support is helping us improve the
specialist care and quality of life for our children
and our families, in their courageous struggle
against devastating illness such as serious blood
disorders and childhood cancers.
On
behalf of the Sisters of Mercy & the Directors of
the Mater Hospital's Trust we thank you for your
support as true friends of the Mater and look
forward to our continuing partnership.
Nigel Harris,
Executive Director Mater Hospital's trust, 2000
2001 - Lighting
equipment.
2003 - Music Therapy Teacher.
2004 -
Funding the new 'Complete Care Program' at the Haematology and Oncology Ward in
October, $50,000. MORE
2006 -
Funding the 'Complete Care Program' at the Haematology and Oncology Ward in
February, $66,796.00 MORE
$2004
- $50,000
cheque presentation to
The Mater
Children's Hospital, Brisbane.
For the 'Kids with Cancer
Foundation Complete Care Program'
Left to right, in the
'Art Therapy Room': Jackson, The
Paediatric Haematology / Oncology Department's Linda
Ewing, Nurse Manager and Dr. Ram Suppiah (Director) Daniel, Prof. Ross
Pinkerton, Director of Cancer Services, Peter
Little, Kids with Cancer's Queensland Fundraising
Manager. MORE
On behalf of
Nigel Harris, Executive Director of the Mater Foundation and
Linda Ewing and the team at Mater Children's Hospital 8 East
Unit, I thank you for the wonderful gift to again fund the
'Kids with Cancer Foundation Complete Care Program' for the
next 12 months. Regards
Lesley
The children's
cancer ward at the Mater has now moved to the Royal
Children's Hospital in Brisbane so we do not expect to
receive any more requests for assistance from the Mater.
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.
Royal Children’s Hospital Brisbane since 2001:
2001 - Clinical Research
Assistant.
2003 - Palliative Care
at a Distance Project, (major sponsor $50,000).
2004 - Palliative Care
at a Distance Project, (2nd year $50,000).
2008-09 - Family
assistance, $12,744
2009-10 - Family
assistance, $57,885
2010-11 - Family
assistance, $64,000
Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne
We are pleased to
be able (in some small way) to help the
families of young children treated in the
Children’s Cancer Centre at RCH Melbourne.
Our family financial assistance to Victorian
families in the 2010/11
financial year was in excess of $84,000, yet (with a similar
demographic) it was $200,000 for
NSW families. Victorian families are
missing out on vital funding.
We can do a lot more for the families if the
social workers could contact us on each
family’s behalf, but at the moment (unlike
every other children's hospital) each
family is handed a list of charities so the
parents can go door knocking to find a
charity like us, that is able to help.
In 2010 we offered to fund an additional social
worker at RCH to relieve some of the stress
placed on the present staff in the social
work unit (the offer was for a minimum of
three years) but our offer of a donation to
help Victorian families was rejected by the
RCH CEO and the Board of the RCH Foundation.
Our offer of course still stands as we
consider it vital to the welfare of the RCH
families.
Despite our constant rejections we will
continue to do all we can for Victorian
families. We do have contact (almost
weekly) with the oncology social worker at
the other Victorian children's hospital, Monash Children’s, where
we (with our $1.157million donation to build
and fit-out) are the Founding Patron of
their Children’s Cancer Centre which in
partnership with RCH and Peter Mac. forms
part of the Victorian Government's,
Paediatric Integrated Cancer Services (PICS).Paediatric
Integrated Cancer Service (PICS).
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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In 2011 we donated 2 Apple iPads to
remain as the property of the Social Work Unit for the use
of children in isolation, as well as for families to take
home when children were allowed home yet to return as
outpatients. Pictured is Social
Worker Jessica Watt.
