Ten highlights for ten years: Fundraise Your Way
2025-05-05
In many ways, community fundraising is at the core of what we do at The Kids’ Cancer Project.
Our founder, Col Reynolds OAM, consistently went door-to-door, made phone calls and held stalls at local shopping centres in an effort to raise money for childhood cancer research.
We’ve most certainly expanded since then (and these highlights will tell you as much), but community fundraising remains. The $100K Celebration is a community fundraiser in itself!
Fundraise Your Way puts people in the driver’s seat, allowing them to do what suits them best to fundraise for vital kids’ cancer research. In this article, I highlight a few of my personal favourites from over the years.
Lose Your Locks
Shaving your head (or getting a really short hair cut) is a great way to show solidarity for kids affected by cancer and to fundraise for childhood cancer research, one challenge that I've taken on myself, as you can see from the photo at the top.
When Reneé Rekes and her husband Nicholas got involved with Lose Your Locks to celebrate the first birthday of their very brave daughter, Eva. Their aim was to raise $950, in honour of the 950 kids, like Eva, who were diagnosed with cancer each year. However, they ended up raising a massive $50,000 and inspired me to do so as well.
Bondi 2 Bronte
Since 2013, The Kids’ Cancer Project have partnered with the Macquarie Bondi to Bronte Ocean Swim and in that time, Bondi to Bronte swimmers have raised over $370,000 to help support vital kids’ cancer research.
The Bondi to Bronte is one of Sydney's and Australia’s most iconic ocean swims. Traditionally starting at Bondi Beach, swimmers finish their journey at Bronte SLSC, the world’s first Surf Life Saving Club.
An eastern suburbs local myself, I’ve taken on the B2B in the past, and despite the lungs wanting to give out, I got it done.
Fitz’s Challenge - 2015
I also managed to get on a bike and use my pedal power for a long-distance ride raising funds for childhood cancer research via The Fitz’s Challenge, a 165km ride through Canberra’s Brindabella Ranges.
The challenge is a wonderful opportunity for cyclists of all abilities to get involved, test themselves and be out on the road around Canberra's Brindabella Ranges while helping fund vital medical research into childhood cancer.
The Fitz's Challenge has five different distances - 50km, 105km, 165km, 210km and 255km – with the courses set across the lofty mountain range. The event raised nearly $35,000 for the Kids' Cancer Project last year, with more than 1,300 riders involved.
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