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A definitive wrap-up of The $100k Celebration

21/05/2025
At the top of this fundraiser a month ago I was celebrating 10 years at The Kids’ Cancer Project.
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A Long Lunch with a big heart: NSW event rallies support for Brain Cancer Awareness Month

20/05/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is celebrating the success of its 2025 NSW Long Lunch, hosted by media personality Renee Gartner at Sydney’s iconic Woollahra Hotel.
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Ten highlights for ten years: Families

14/05/2025
Owen's tenth and final highlight features a few families who are our 'why'.
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Tangalooma’s pledge to make waves on shores both near and far for kids with cancer

12/05/2025
The beautiful slice of beachfront that is Tangalooma Island Resort is one loved by many. The tropical oasis on Moreton Island looks like an idyllic place to drop the anchor and come ashore for some much-needed downtime.
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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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BSR on board with The Kids’ Cancer Project

10/10/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is delighted to announce the commencement of a corporate partnership with electrical retail franchisor BSR Group.

QLD Long Lunch draws curtain on Queensland events program for 2025

21/10/2025
The recent QLD Long Lunch, hosted by Fortitude Valley’s Calile Hotel, was The Kids’ Cancer Project’s final foray in Queensland for 2025. Selling out in record time, those in attendance helped to raise a total of $26,000 for childhood cancer research.

NSW Spring Golf Day drives home record six-figure sum

30/09/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is celebrating its most successful Golf Day ever, with a record $102,000 raised at its NSW Spring Golf Day at St Michael’s Golf Club in Little Bay.

Your Impact 2025

01/09/2025
Read how your support has helped save lives and is pushing kids' cancer research further than ever before.

The lasting impact and legacy of Lisa's late son

01/09/2025
Nearly two decades have passed since two Christy kids underwent cancer treatment in tandem. Their mum, Lisa, says one saved the other.

Thanks to you, we're seed-funding survivorship

01/09/2025
This is how your generosity helped pave the way for a Federally- funded post-treatment program for childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer survivors.

These familiar Fellows have some updates!

01/09/2025
Your continued support of The Kids’ Cancer Project has helped us commit over $76 million to research in the last 30 years.

An irregular coincidence in a regular giving town

01/09/2025
Stuart has been building his impact with us for years. He didn’t know that his neighbour was too!

One in a million: Write a Book in a Day SMASHES seven figure barrier

09/09/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is ecstatic to announce that with the help of writers, team coordinators and sponsors across the country, a record $1 million has been raised to fund vital kids’ cancer research thanks to the Write a Book in a Day competition.

Celebrating the success of The Kids’ Cancer Project’s inaugural Research Symposium

19/09/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project’s inaugural Research Symposium, held late last month, is being heralded as a triumph, with a number of researchers funded by the charity descending upon Sydney’s Hyatt Regency for two jam-packed days of presentations, panels and networking.

Blood Cancer Awareness Month: What we’re doing to improve the lives of kids suffering from leukaemia and lymphoma

23/09/2025
In addition to Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, September plays host to Blood Cancer Awareness Month, a worldwide period of remembrance and awareness for those affected by blood cancer, and a time to appreciate those who work to mitigate its effects.

Esteemed trio confirmed as new Research Advisory Committee members

05/08/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is delighted to announce the confirmation of three new members to its Research Advisory Committee.

The plumbers: How The Kids’ Cancer Project helps research flow freely

26/08/2025
The translational research pipeline may sound like a complicated concept, but it's essential in taking ideas from a lab into the everyday lives of kids with cancer.

WOTSO get moving ahead of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

28/08/2025
2025 is set to be the biggest year ever in WOTSO’s long association with the Better Challenge, the major fundraiser for The Kids'​ Cancer Project, which supports vital scientific research into better treatments for children with cancer.

The Kids’ Cancer Project named official Charity Partner of Sydney Lunar Festival 

20/08/2025
The Kids’ Cancer Project is delighted to confirm it has been named as the official charity partner of the City of Sydney’s Sydney Lunar Festival, giving the charity a lofty platform at high profile events to advocate for childhood cancer research.