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Annual Review 2019 Supporting Children and Young People with Cancer Contents annual review 2019 supporting children and young people with cancer contents FROM OUR CHAIRMAN AND CEO our vision 2 2019 AT A GLANCE 4 to support THE CANCER JOURNEY every child, 6 SUPPORT FROM THE MOMENT OF DIAGNOSIS teenager 8 MUSIC THERAPY and young 10 INFORMATION AND SUPPORT adult with 11 FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE cancer, and 12 TRANSFORMING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE their family, 13 BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT who need us. 14 REDKITE’S CARING COMMUNITY 15 PREMIER PARTNER: COLES our purpose 16 To provide essential support to children LEADING CORPORATE PARTNERS with cancer to ensure the best possible 18 quality of life for them and their family – CELEBRATING AMAZING MILESTONES IN 2019 now and into the future. 19 MAJOR CORPORATE PARTNERS our promise 20 SUPPORTING PARTNERS AND KEY SUPPORTERS You are not alone with cancer. We will 21 listen, respect and respond to you and your family with essential support from PHILANTHROPISTS 22 hospital to home. OUR COMMUNITY OF FUNDRAISERS AND VOLUNTEERS acknowledgement 24 OUR BOARD of country 26 We acknowledge the traditional owners GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION of the land on which we work, and pay 28 our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. SENIOR EXECUTIVE TEAM 29 FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2019 30 2019 FINANCIALS 32 a message from our Chairman a message from our CEO Jennifer Horrigan Monique Keighery Chairman of the Redkite Board CEO Redkite believes that no family in Australia should face bereavement support packs for grieving families. I couldn’t present the 2019 annual review without greatest value to our donors. We are not afraid to their child’s cancer and treatment alone. That’s why acknowledging the context in which it’s being read. challenge and stretch ourselves, and 2019 was the year There are still many growing and unmet needs of Redkite provides essential counselling and support Recently, our nation has endured some of the most we put Redkite under the microscope. families facing childhood cancer. Redkite receives no services, financial assistance and bereavement devastating challenges in living history with the government funding or support and we rely entirely With the support and expertise of Redkite’s Board of support to families throughout Australia. From Redkite’s bushfires that raged across the country at the end of on our corporate and philanthropic partners, and the Directors, we took a close look at the current cancer incredibly dedicated team, to all of you who support our 2019, swiftly followed by the COVID-19 global pandemic. community, to deliver our essential services. care and support landscape, including the global and work, this year-in-review is a celebration of all we have Cancer doesn’t happen in a vacuum, and so these local influences on our sector. We interrogated our accomplished together. Redkite remains forever grateful to our many two events have affected families who were already assumptions around the needs of the young people donors and supporters. We celebrated several We continue working hard to be there for every family facing the unimaginable challenges of childhood and families, and identified where the gaps and significant partnerships in 2019, including 10 years of who needs us, whether they are in hospital or at home, cancer, and the stories are heartbreaking. 2020 will be opportunities were to improve their experience of partnership with the Flight Centre Foundation and the and have continued to grow our support to families a particularly tough year for them, and they will need cancer and make the greatest impact. extraordinary milestone of $35 million in donations during 2019. Redkite supported nearly 2,600 families Redkite’s essential financial and emotional support from Coles and seven years of partnership. Coles Redkite’s Strategic Priorities for 2020 and our future and 3,800 individuals throughout the year, an more than ever, and the continued generosity of our does so much to support Redkite families throughout direction are built on strong foundations of over a increase of 5 per cent and 6 per cent respectively caring Redkite community. Australia and has helped transform the lives of families year of research and planning – it’s our roadmap to from 2018. This represents more than 6,300 support facing childhood cancer. This annual review highlights Redkite’s work in 2019 providing whole-of-family support that is tailored and sessions, 1,700 hours of our team working directly and celebrates the extraordinary generosity of our life-changing, no matter where, when or how families with diagnosed young people and their families, I am very proud to be the Chairman of Redkite, leading supporters who make everything we do possible. need it. It sets out how we will continue to foster strong and 1,300 hours liaising with healthcare and other an exceptional Board of Directors. They believe, as Together, we provided critical emotional, financial, partnerships with families, sector colleagues, and our professionals on behalf of Redkite families. passionately as I do, that Redkite’s work is absolutely and education support to more families – and across incredible supporters to extend the range and reach of vital to families facing their child’s cancer. I know I speak For more than three decades, Redkite has provided a greater geographical spread – than ever before. We Redkite’s support and improve outcomes. for all Directors in recognising and celebrating the vital financial assistance for families whose earning worked hard to advocate for them, raising community selfless contributions of our volunteers, corporate and It’s a true privilege to work with such an experienced capacity is impacted by their child’s cancer treatment. awareness of the enormous burden cancer puts community partners, donors, and sector collaborators and engaged board, the talented Redkite team who go During 2019, we provided $2.2 million to cover essential on families, and giving them a voice to share their – thank you – and we simply couldn’t be there for above and beyond every day, and our passionate and household bills or put food on the family table for experiences in their own words. children and families without you. generous supporters. I know for all of us it’s the stories around 1,900 families in need, a 3 per cent increase in In the 36 years of Redkite’s operation, we have been of love, hope, heartache, triumph, grief and resilience families accessing this support from 2018. Tragically, responsive to the changing and growing needs of of the children and families that inspire and motivate us the demand for Redkite’s bereavement support families going through cancer, with the aim of delivering all, and will continue to as we forge ahead together to grew, with a 17 per cent increase in the distribution of the greatest possible impact to families and the ensure no family faces their child’s cancer alone. 2 • Redkite Annual Review 2019 Redkite Annual Review 2019 • 3 2019 at a glance Throughout 2019, there was 5 per cent growth in the number of families and 6 per cent in the number of individuals supported by Redkite. Our impact in regional and remote Australia has increased to the point where the services we deliver now reflect where people live in Australia – we are reaching families in the communities where they live, as well as being there for them in every children’s hospital across the country. Around Around 2600 3800 families received individuals received support from Redkite support from Redkite 1,079 84 5% 6% diagnosis support bereavement support increase in families increase in individuals packs distributed packs distributed, 17% from 2018 from 2018 nationally increase from 2018 3% information,6,325 counselling 27% 12% increase in families of all the individuals supported increase in children and young accessing financial and support sessions delivered by Redkite live in regional or people supported with their assistance remote Australia, mirroring the education and/or career general population 4 • Redkite Annual Review 2019 Redkite Annual Review 2019 • 5 the cancer journey From the moment a parent hears the words, “your child has cancer”, nosis treatmen they embark on a long and uncertain iag ng t d ri journey that is anything but t Life is turned u Treatment can last a d straightforward. Everything they upside down for months or years, took for granted, from planning overnight for resulting in income work and holidays, their child’s the whole loss, lengthy family schooling, friendships and the family. separations and future... everything is turned on its education challenges. head. Redkite is there for the whole family, at every stage of their cancer experience. From their child’s first days in the hospital, to their first days back at home, and beyond. ent ing home vem rn a tu re e e Sadly, r Returning to b some the “new children the cancer normal” can be and young stressful and people journey isolating, away will not from the security survive. of hospital. on se issi p m la e e For some, r The road to recovery r the cancer is long and intense, and returns and the impacts of cancer the cycle can be lifelong. starts again. 6 • Redkite Annual Review 2019 Redkite Annual Review 2019 • 7 support from the moment of diagnosis DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT PACKS RED BAGS FOR CHILDREN FOR TEENAGERS AND UNDER 15-YEARS-OLD YOUNG PEOPLE, AGED 15 TO We are with families from the moment they enter the unfamiliar world of the cancer ward. 24-YEARS-OLD Our Redkite Social Workers are there to help them navigate this new world. These experienced professionals are embedded in the hospital system so they can be one of the first points of contact for a family. We are proud to say that Redkite funds social workers in every children’s cancer ward in the country, helping families access the supports they need, including our diagnosis support packs, the iconic Red Bags.
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