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CANCER FACTS

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EVENTS

We are open for business! For more patient and visitor information about the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre, please visit http://www.awh.org.au/cancer-centre/

Thank you to everyone who supported our inaugural Sunshine Week- $45,000 raised! With your support we shine :-)

Support our 100% local cause by attending one of the community events on our events page.

SUPPORT

“We are proud to be associated with the Trust Fund as it provides a clear pathway for the community to financially support the ongoing work and equipping of the Centre."

Albury Wodonga Health

SHINE NEWSLETTER

The Spring 2017 edition of our Shine newsletter is out now!

This is a quarterly publication of the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Fund. Please call (02) 6064 1538 or email [email protected] if you would like a hard copy sent in the post.

SUNSHINE WEEK

Embrace the sunshine this month by organising a fundraising event for the cancer centre.

Sunshine Week, our major annual fundraiser, will be held from Sunday, September 17 to Saturday, September 23, with everyone in the community urged to get involved.

It can be as simple as organising a barbecue or morning tea, or if you’re feeling more adventurous, then perhaps a fashion parade, movie night or lawn bowls tournament.

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For further information, or to register your event, click here

LOVELY LADY LUMP

“Let me start by telling you I am OK. I’m just in a small situation involving a pesky cancer tumour in my left nork, but I’m not dying and I am the luckiest person in the entire world.”

In 2014, Lana was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an unmissably vibrant mix of storytelling, rounded character work, stand-up, silly dances and animated projects of her real imaging, she has made a show that is touching, real, raw and hilarious, skilfully making mutated cells the butt of the joke. Cos cancer seriously deserves to be laughed out of town.

For further information, click here

LIFESTYLE EXPO

Hume Retirement Resort will host the Albury Lifestyle Expo 2017 on Saturday, October 7.

Gold coin donation entry, with proceeds going to the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Fund.

For further information click here.

A LONG LUNCH

Enjoy a relaxed four-course lunch under the gum trees at Noreuil Park, Albury on Friday, October 25.

Cost is $150 per person, with proceeds going to the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre.

To book, phone The River Deck Café on (02) 6023 5980 or email [email protected]

A NIGHT IN WHITE

A new event to raise money for the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre Trust Fund.

Get your friends and family together for an alfresco dinner party at a mystery location. Don’t forget to dress in white!

Tickets are $40, and are available by phoning (02) 6064 1538 or emailing [email protected]

CANCER CENTRE NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT

With the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre up and running, the trust fund needs your support now more than ever.

Money donated to the trust fund will be used to pay for research, training and equipment not funded by the government, including services provided at the Wellness Centre.

Chairman Grant Luff said the $65 million centre has united cancer services under one roof, offering a place to educate, support, research, diagnose and treat all forms of cancer.

But to ensure it remains a first class, proactive and formidable facility, we must continue to source and manage extra funding within the community.

“Even though we’ve managed to get the funds to build the facility, the real challenge starts now and that is getting the best out of the facility,” Mr Luff said.

“That’s a real challenge because that invariably takes money and that money isn’t necessarily available from the government.”

Three years after the trust fund was formed, more than $1 million has been donated to the cancer centre.

Mr Luff said part of that funding has already been committed to staffing and fitting out the Wellness Centre, as well as purchasing new equipment to be able to diagnose lung cancer.

He acknowledged the efforts of the community, from individuals to schools, and businesses to community groups, in raising the funds.

“Whether or not it’s been $50, $100 or $5000, there’s just people, clubs and groups in the community that are doing whatever they can to put some money into the trust fund,” he said.

“It’s the community doing what the community can do to ensure this centre prospers, and we can’t thank them enough for that.”

To donate to the trust fund, please click here