Join us for what is destined to be an unforgetable night of superb food, excellent wine, outstanding entertainment and fantastic auction and silent auction prizes all to benefit the ongoing work of the Fight Cancer Foundation.

You won’t want to miss it!!!

Invitations will be sent later this year. If you are not on our invitation list and would like to be, please ring 03 9342 7888.

Prizes are up for grabs in the Fight Cancer Foundation ‘Albury Wodonga Carer Accommodation Centre Raffle’!

Local merchants in the Albury Wodonga area have rallied to support the raffle.

First Prize- Toyota Yaris Sedan – valued at $20,590 – donated by Jacob Toyota, Wodonga.

Second Prize – a one week stay at ‘The Beach House’ Tura Beach – valued at $1,500 – donated by Jan De Hennin.

Third Prize – $1000 Tru Hi-Fi Gift Voucher – donated by Tru Hi-Fi Albury.

So get your raffle tickets before they’re all sold out and help support this important project.
For tickets, please contact Tonia Timmermans on 02 6023 3994

Raffle to be drawn on Friday 29 June at The Commercial Club, Albury.
Winners will be notified and results will be published in The Border Mail on July 7, 2012.

For more information on the Albury Wodonga Carer Accommdation Centre, please click here

Dîner Rouge 2012 at Bistro Thierry

~ An intimate dinner ~
~ A gastronomic experience ~
~ A marriage of superb food and fine wines ~
All to support the ongoing work of the Fight Cancer Foundation.
Saturday 26 May
7.00pm
Bistro Thierry – 511 Malvern Road, Toorak
$195 per person
– Book early –
(only 66 places available)

Click here to download Bistro Thierry Booking Slip .

Bistro Thierry – Melbourne’s exclusive French bistro offers Melburnians a magnificent gastronomic experience and the opportunity to fight cancer.

Thierry Cornevin has created a typically French dining experience at Bistro Thierry and guests can enjoy the ambience of a true classic French bistro – one that you may find in Lyon or Paris – at ‘Diner Rouge’ on Saturday 26 May – an opportunity to sample a combination of superbly created gourmet classics and innovative modern French cuisine.

Thierry and Chef Frederic Naud have created a superb Six Course Degustation Menu – a menu created with passion featuring the finest Australian produce combined with French flair and complemented by French wines and unique French touches – at $195 per person it will be a night to remember.

Thierry says “I understand that cancer touches us all at some time in our lives and that 40,000 Australians die each year from that disease, so I have committed to support the Fight Cancer Foundation, a national charity, by holding ‘Diner Rouge’ to assist the Foundation in its life saving work.

Thierry will donate the entire proceeds from ‘Diner Rouge’ to the Fight Cancer Foundation. He has support from his food and wine suppliers has given up all proceeds of what would normally be a sold-out Saturday night.

For further information or to book a table, please contact:
Fight Cancer Foundation – 03 9342 8647

This important milestone is a joint effort of AusCord, the national network of umbilical cord blood banks and cord blood collection centres. The network collects and banks cord blood from voluntary donors for anonymous use by patients requiring a stem cell transplant. Cord blood transplants are used to treat leukaemia and a variety of genetic, immunological and blood disorders.

Early cord blood banking was driven by Australian pioneers such as Dr Karin Tiedemann, Medical Director of the BMDI Cord Blood Bank in Melbourne. The BMDI Cord Blood Bank was established by the Fight Cancer Foundation (formerly the Bone Marrow Donor Institute) in partnership with the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.

The release of 1000 cord blood units for transplantation has provided hope and a second chance of life for 908 patients in Australia and overseas (some patients receive more than one cord bood unit). This milestone was reached by the release of the 414th cord blood unit from the Fight Cancer Foundation’s BMDI Cord Blood Bank.

To read about a remarkable set of twins boys who underwent cord blood transplants, please click here

Take 2 Markets has partnered with Fight Cancer Foundation for 2012 as its charity of choice.

Take 2 Markets

Venue: Geelong West Town Hall, 153 Pakington Street
Date: Sunday July 29 2012
Time: 10.00 am to 3.00 pm.

Take 2 Markets, the premier women’s recycled fashion event, is preparing for its winter wonderland of fashion bargains on Sunday July 29 at Geelong West Town Hall in Pakington Street.

Take 2 Markets is the ultimate destination for market shoppers and sellers of quality fashion clothing, shoes and accessories. Geelong women know style and have embraced Take 2 Markets with enthusiasm. Its for the fashion savy, looking for quality at a bargain price.

Dress to impress for a fraction of the price. You don’t have to search through trash for treasure – your choice of cocktail, evening, summer, winter, designer, new and pre-loved, vintage and one-off classics, chain store bargains – handbags, jewellery, hats, shoes, sunnies and more.

It’s a friendly fun atmosphere where fashion, style and women of every shape and size are celebrated.

The final Market Day for 2012 is scheduled for Sunday October 7.

Fight Cancer Foundation has two Recycle Shops located at 203 Pakington Street, Geelong West, and Shop 3, 6 High Street, Drysdale. Both will be represented at Take 2 Markets – great places to pick up a bargain and support fellow Australians living with cancer.

For further information, please call 03 9342 7888

Football is about spirit, strength and the fight to win. Those touched by cancer share a similar journey and need the same strength and courage to win their individual fight.

Footy Colours Day is the Fight Cancer Foundation’s national fundraising event, and is the one day in September to fight cancer and save lives. Footy Colours Day is held on the first Friday of September.

Thousands of Australians unite and don their favourite football team’s colours – AFL, NRL, Rugby Union, Soccer – to help raise money for children living with cancer.

Wear your football team’s colours, guernsey, scarf, beanie and make a donation to the Fight Cancer Foundation.

While the next official Footy Colours Day is Friday 7 September 2012, if this does not fit into your internal calendar of events, any day around this date can be used.

Footy Colours Day is easy to organise, lots of fun and a great opportunity for corporates, small business, government, schools, clubs and local communities to band together.

Support Footy Colours Day! For more information and to REGISTER for Footy Colours Day please click here

or contact Sophia on 03 9342 7888 or email sophia.elliott@fightcancer.org.au

Click here to download Fight Cancer eNews May 2011.

IT’S STARTED!!!

Excitement is growing! Building has commenced on the site of the Albury Wodonga Carer Accommodation Centre. The 20-bed project is expected to be completed by Christmas 2012.

About the Project

The Fight Cancer Foundation in partnership with Rotary, Lions and Zonta service clubs, launched the capital appeal for the Albury Wodonga Accommodation Centre on 23 February 2011 at the Commercial Club in Albury.

The appeal kicked off with a donation of $100,000 from the three service clubs and two private donations of $25,000 from Tonia Timmermans and the children of Alf and Jo-Anne Armstrong.

The centre is critical to the Albury Wodonga region. Stage One, a 20 room accommodation centre for patients, carers and families, will be built adjacent to Albury Base Hospital. It will provide state of the art, affordable, short term and long term housing for those from the surrounding region needing to access the Albury Wodonga hospitals and who would otherwise have to meet the cost of commercial accommodation or travel long distances daily.

The accommodation centre will alleviate the worry of where to stay and how to fund those stays for patients and carers. It will provide a vital piece of health infrastructure in the Albury Wodonga region and the outlying communities that are serviced by the hospitals.

Essential Energy, recognising the significance of the project to the region, has joined as a major sponsor by donating a 500kVa padmount transformer to support the future electricity needs of the accommodation centre.

Coming on board is the Cancer Council of NSW which has donated $300.000 to the project. The Foundation, in collaboration with the Cancer Council of NSW, envisages the accommodation centre as the hub of cancer support for the whole region with information, education and counselling programs to be made available at the centre.

Recent donations have included Lions Club International which has granted US$75,000 in response to the application by District 201V6, and From Upper Kiewa Valley Lions Club a donation of $36,396.76. We are truly amazed at the support from the small communities across the North East and Southern Riverina.

DONATE TODAY!!!

You can help support this important community project by making an on-line credit card donation to the Albury Wodonga Accommodation Centre Appeal. Please click here and follow the prompts.