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Inspiring stories about the scientists, supporters and families united against childhood cancer.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Campaigns
09/05/2025
Campaigns are on the agenda for Owen's next highlight!
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The numbers behind Australia’s biggest childhood cancer
06/05/2025
May is Brain Cancer Awareness Month. Recognised as the world’s deadliest paediatric cancer, it can often be a ruthless, tragic disease.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Fundraise Your Way
05/05/2025
The power of community and doing things your way makes up CEO Owen Finegan's next highlight for his ten year tenure!
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The supermarket chain leading the charge on the high seas for brain cancer research
03/05/2025
The SS Pirate Day is just one of many ships in a fleet that’s set a course for a world without brain cancer. Early learning centres, offices and retail stores across Australia sign up their crews and help us raise money for vital brain cancer research.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Corporate Partners
02/05/2025
CEO Owen Finegan's next highlight for his ten year tenure discusses our incredible corporate partners.
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Write a Book in a Day opens for business on first day of Brain Cancer Awareness Month
01/05/2025
Registrations for The Kids’ Cancer Project’s 'Write a Book in a Day’ 2025 are now OPEN, with schools and writing groups across the nation encouraged to team up and help raise funds for childhood cancer research.
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How Angelia’s band of bears helped her through her toughest battle
30/04/2025
If you were wanting to witness the effect a bear from The Kids’ Cancer Project has on a child with cancer, look no further than five-year-old Perth local, Angelia.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Community Champions
29/04/2025
It’s an honour to be the CEO of The Kids’ Cancer Project for many reasons, but I am eternally grateful to have met the many, many people that help us via their own fundraisers.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Kokoda
25/04/2025
I don’t think anything can prepare you for the Kokoda Trail. A 96-kilometre walking track situated through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea.
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Ten highlights for ten years: The Bus Trip
23/04/2025
The opportunity to join our Founder, Col Reynolds, on a one-month bus journey from Townsville to Tasmania and back to Sydney as CEO was an amazing experience.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Advocacy and awareness
18/04/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project was founded on a promise made by one man who vowed to never give up until every child survives cancer with minimal or no long-term effects. Col Reynolds OAM is that man.
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Angelia's adversities: Why Andrew fights for better treatments
17/04/2025
Andrew Le Verde can recall the details of his daughter Angelia’s ordeal with B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia on a whim, but there’s one part he’d like to forget.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Our 30th birthday celebration
11/04/2025
2023 marked The Kids’ Cancer Project’s 30th anniversary. Founded by one man in 1993, it is a charity-wide mantra that one person can make a difference. Over the three decades, the committed support of wonderful people like you have helped us achieve wonderful things and make incredible strides forward in childhood cancer treatments and survival rates.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Research
09/04/2025
In the first of CEO Owen Finegan's ten highlights for ten years, we look at what we've achieved in the research sector during his decade-long tenure.
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In his Owen words: Finegan's ten years as The Kids' Cancer Project CEO
07/04/2025
Throughout my life, I’ve always felt lucky, of that there’s no question.
I felt it throughout my rugby career, but after ten years working at The Kids’ Cancer Project, I’ve now got no doubt.
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Donor community goes above and Beyond for kids’ cancer research
04/04/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is ecstatic to announce that a total of over $27,000 has been raised for childhood cancer research via Beyond Bank’s Double Donation fundraiser!
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Heartfelt hospital visit brings perspective for Swifts trio
03/04/2025
NSW Swifts players Sarah Klau, Grace Nweke and Paige Hadley were on hand last week for a tour of the Children’s Cancer Research Unit (CCRU) at Westmead Children’s Hospital, giving the trio the chance to connect with the dedicated scientists, researchers, and young patients benefiting from the work of The Kids’ Cancer Project.
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Fred’s fight: Why better brain cancer treatments are the treasure we’re seeking
01/04/2025
After joining oncology survivorship last October, 13-year-old Fred Corbett has started high school and achieving dreams that might not have been a reality earlier in his life.
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iBounce helping kids’ cancer patients pivot away from sugar-sweetened beverages
31/03/2025
We are proud to share Dr Lauren Ha, The Kids’ Cancer Project-funded researcher based at UNSW, has had a correspondence letter published in the British Journal of Cancer, detailing the positive effects her app iBounce has on limiting the sugar-sweetened beverage (SSBs) intake of kids with cancer.
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Doubling up to support childhood cancer research
28/03/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is delighted to have been named as one of sixteen Australian charities set to benefit from Beyond Bank’s dollar-for-dollar fundraising campaign that will run over a two-week period in April 2025.
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Federal funding marks new chapter for ZERO program
21/03/2025
The Federal Government has announced a $112 million investment into the ZERO Childhood Cancer Program, a fully-fledged public scheme initially funded by The Kids’ Cancer Project.
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The supermarket chain leading the charge on the high seas for brain cancer research
03/05/2025
The SS Pirate Day is just one of many ships in a fleet that’s set a course for a world without brain cancer. Early learning centres, offices and retail stores across Australia sign up their crews and help us raise money for vital brain cancer research.
Ten highlights for ten years: Corporate Partners
02/05/2025
CEO Owen Finegan's next highlight for his ten year tenure discusses our incredible corporate partners.
Write a Book in a Day opens for business on first day of Brain Cancer Awareness Month
01/05/2025
Registrations for The Kids’ Cancer Project’s 'Write a Book in a Day’ 2025 are now OPEN, with schools and writing groups across the nation encouraged to team up and help raise funds for childhood cancer research.
Ten highlights for ten years: Fundraise Your Way
05/05/2025
The power of community and doing things your way makes up CEO Owen Finegan's next highlight for his ten year tenure!
The numbers behind Australia’s biggest childhood cancer
06/05/2025
May is Brain Cancer Awareness Month. Recognised as the world’s deadliest paediatric cancer, it can often be a ruthless, tragic disease.
Ten highlights for ten years: Campaigns
09/05/2025
Campaigns are on the agenda for Owen's next highlight!