Raise it for Redcliffe Hospital Giving Day is an annual fundraising effort to add a touch of home to hospital facilities and this year’s event will focus on the pediatric and palliative care units.
Celebrated on Thursday, 29 August this year, Giving Day is the major fundraising campaign for Raise it for Redcliffe Hospital, a partnership between the RBWH Foundation and Redcliffe Hospital.
Aiming To Make a Greater Impact To the Community
Funds raised support patient care projects, life-changing health research and other hospital initiatives that fall outside the scope of government funding.
RBWH Foundation CEO Simone Garske said more than $800,000 had been raised by the community since Raise it for Redcliffe Hospital was launched in 2020.
“This year, Giving Day hopes to surpass $1 million to make even greater community impact,” she said.
For the Templeman family, including patient Vicki and her son, Ben, refurbishment of the patient lounge in the rehabilitation and stroke unit, funded through Giving Day donations, was the greatest gift the Moreton Bay community could have given to people undergoing lengthy recovery.
“You can’t believe the difference that it can make, somewhere like this; it just makes the world of difference,” Vicki said.
“Mum loves the thought that if anyone else has to be in the rehabilitation unit for as long as she was, that they have a lovely garden to enjoy and a beautiful cafe-style lounge to spend time with family and friends during the long months of recovery,” Ben said.
The power of giving will help transform another space in the parent lounge and children’s playroom in the paediatric unit, and continue the palliative care unit makeover.
On the day, the event will feature community radio 99.7 Bridge FM onsite at the hospital, bake sales, a plant sale, sausage sizzle, prizes, a ping pong tournament and more.
For each donation received, Giving Day Impact Partners will double the donation.
Visit Raise it for Redcliffe Hospital.
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