Your impact
Together, we're changing the future for kids with cancer
Sydney Children's Hospitals Foundation (SCHF) is one of the largest and most trusted kids' health charities in Australia and one of the largest hospital foundations in the world.
Funds raised from Walk for Kids with Cancer will go directly to the frontline of children’s healthcare across the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, including the Kids Cancer Centre at Randwick and the Cancer Centre for Children at Westmead. As their exclusive charity partner, SCHF helps ensure their patients and families receive the best possible care, now and into the future.
Your support can help find answers to rare diseases like childhood cancer, faster ways to diagnose, support clinical trials, help build clinical and patient family-centered spaces in hospitals, and create positive patient experiences for kids and their families.
No child should ever go through cancer but those who do deserve our all.
The stats
- Nearly half of all children diagnosed with cancer are aged 0-4 years old at diagnosis.
- Two-thirds of children who survive cancer suffer serious long-term effects.
- Across the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, more than 400 staff work in Oncology.
- While groundbreaking medical research has increased survival rates to 80%, three Australian kids still lose their brave fight to cancer every week and 1 in 5 cannot be cured with current treatments or therapies.
Dr Richard Mitchell
Head of Clinical Services, Kids Cancer Centre
"I lead an incredibly inspirational team at the Kids Cancer Centre, all committed to our patients and their families. We are always looking at how we can continue to make things better, how we can improve the way we do things.
But we can’t do what we do every day without the support of generous philanthropists and donors who help ensure the care goes from good to great."
Dr Luciano Dalla-Pozza
Director, Cancer Centre for Children
"We are all in this together. We are all chasing the end of the rainbow and a world where no child develops cancer.
Each year, the Cancer Centre for Children at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead cares for around 200 newly diagnosed children and adolescents with cancer.
Treating these children and young people is complex and requires an enormous team effort. The community are an invaluable part of this team, helping to provide the extra support we need to purchase the latest equipment, fund vital research and improve treatments so each of our patients has the best outcome possible.
The importance of the community’s support cannot be overstated. It not only helps us in the Cancer Centre for Children, but it reaches families far beyond our hospital’s walls as well."
