Celebrating 21 Years of Giving Hope and Saving Lives
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{ ANNUAL REPORT 2010 } Celebrating 21 years of giving hope and saving lives. PATRONS IN CHIEF PATRONS MEDICAL ADVISOR Her Excellency Professor Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE Professor Jeffery Szer Marie Bashir AC CVO Deborra-lee Furness Governor of New South Wales Hugh Jackman HONORARY LAWYERS Corrs, Chambers Westgarth Professor David de Kretser AC AMBASSADORS Governor of Victoria David Boon MBE HONORARY ACCOUNTANTS Mark Beretta Moore Stephens Simon Marshall HONORARY AUDITORS Lawler Draper Dillon Chartered Accountants THE { CONTENTS } 2 10 16 BIG THE BIG PICTURE THE BIG EVENT let’s go back to A countdown of the where it all began. big events in our social calendar over the past We celebrate 21 years 21 years. of milestones and PICTURE. achievement. THE REAL STORY Featuring our 2010 highlights including Featuring a message Discover the true meaning of our work. Footy Colours Day from the President and We share fi ve success stories from people and the 18th Annual The Fight Cancer Foundation (formerly Bone Marrow Donor Institute) Managing Director. helped by the Fight Cancer Foundation. Red Ball. is dedicated to the care, treatment and support of cancer patients and their families, and funds research into improved treatment methods for leukaemia and other forms of cancer. 2010 marks our 21st year with one common goal: 21 25 29 TO GIVE HOPE AND SAVE LIVES. AT THE HEART THE BOTTOM LINE THANK YOU Go behind the scenes Our 2010 Financial Summary. We say thank you to our and discover the dedicated supporters for their Featuring our revenue and passionate people who ongoing support and belief in expenditure for the past year. make the Fight Cancer the vital work we do. Foundation what it is. Featuring our Volunteers and Board of Directors. Fight Cancer Foundation | Annual Report 2010 3 1989 1990 1994 The centre makes We establish an Australian The Fight Cancer Rotary Bone Marrow advances into the diagnosis Bone Marrow Donor Registry and treatment of leukaemia Foundation (formerly in partnership with the Research Centre is and other diseases of Bone Marrow Donor Royal Melbourne Hospital established with the bone marrow. Institute) is formed. and Red Cross Blood Bank. support from Rotary. Cord blood 1996 is collected from the 2003 The house is a umbilical cord following the BMDI Rotary House opens “home away from home” The BMDI birth of a baby and is used as for families, with patients a rich source of stem cells for to offer accommodation to Cord Blood Bank staying for an average transplantation into patients families and patients who of 4 months. is established. with leukaemia and other must relocate to Melbourne blood disorders. for cancer treatment. let’s celebraTE OUR MILESTONES. 2004 2005 Back on Track assists An early detection test Gynaecological The Fight Cancer school-aged children living is developed for Cancer Research Foundation Back with cancer to continue ovarian cancer. Centre support on Track program their education. begins. is established. 2008 2009 NOW John Opie House The Federal Government Fundraising continues for the provides low cost, quality John Opie House provides funding of $1.5m Albury project. Recruitment accommodation for towards our $5.5m target to commences to appoint a Fight opens in Hobart. patients and carers. build the Albury Wodonga Cancer Foundation Research Accommodation Centre. Advisory Committee. { MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT & MANAGING DIRECTOR } The Fight Cancer Foundation is A small group of parents From small beginnings the objective • The Fight Cancer Back on Track of these families was not only met, but program (2005) has enabled 450 of children with leukaemia extremely the work undertaken expanded to make primary and secondary students living met 21 years ago. the Fight Cancer Foundation the multi- with cancer to continue their education faceted organisation that it is today: and stay in touch with their schools, teachers and peers. proud Their objective was to • The Australian Bone Marrow work together and provide Donor Registry (est. 1990) now • Support was given to the Gynaecological of the projects we have lists 173,491 potential donors and Cancer Research Centre (2004) for hope and a second chance is internationally-linked providing research into the development of an supported over the past of life. access to more than 10 million ovarian cancer early detection test. potential donors worldwide. The 21 years. Australian Bone Marrow Donor • John Opie House in Hobart (2008) They set out to establish Registry has given a second chance is a 20 room accommodation house a register of unrelated of life to 2,293 leukaemia and cancer for patients and carers who need to patients in Australia and overseas. travel to Hobart for treatment, and but truly altruistic people, has accommodated 370 families. who were prepared to • The Rotary Bone Marrow Research Centre (1994) – this world renowned • Albury Wodonga Cancer Patient donate their bone marrow Research Centre was funded by the and Carer Accommodation Centre to patients, who required Fight Cancer Foundation and gifted - plans for the building of a 30 unit to The Royal Melbourne Hospital. accommodation centre have a transplant to survive. The original charter of the Laboratories commenced (2010). The Centre was to research diseases curable by will be built on land adjacent to the bone marrow transplantation. The Albury Base Hospital and will benefi t research direction has broadened, families from rural New South Wales but a signifi cant focus remains on the and Victoria. This project will be our original diseases such as leukaemia main fundraising focus over the next and the genetic blood disorders, two years with a goal to raise $5.5m thalassemia and sickle cell anaemia. and open the facility in 2012. AFTER 21 YEARS • BMDI Cord Blood Bank (1996) in • Recruitment within the scientifi c THE AUSTRALIAN conjunction with The Royal Children’s and medical fraternity begins (2010) BONE MARROW Hospital and the Murdoch Children’s to form a Fight Cancer Foundation DONOR REGISTRY Research Institute, has collected, frozen Research Advisory Committee. This and stored its 9,848th cord blood committee will review requests from NOW LISTS: unit and released 353 life saving cord research projects throughout Australia, blood units. broadening our scope. • BMDI Rotary House (2003) in North We are extremely proud of the projects 173,491 Melbourne provides 13 self contained we have supported over the past 21 apartments for patients with cancer years. We continue to look to the future, POTENTIAL and their families so they can be near and with the ongoing support of our hard Melbourne’s major treatment hospitals. working Board, Development Board, BONE MARROW BMDI Rotary House has been a home Staff, Committees, wide body of volunteers away from home for 402 families for and supporters, we will continue to an average of 4–6 months. progress and provide assistance to those DONORS affected by cancer. JOHN BARBOUR ERIC WRIGHT President Managing Director 6 Fight Cancer Foundation | Annual Report 2010 Fight Cancer Foundation | Annual Report 2010 7 { 21 YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT } 370 FAMILIES BACK ON TRACK HAVE STAYED AT HAS ASSISTED JOHN OPIE HOUSE THE BMDI CORD BLOOD BANK COLLECTED & BANKED THE 450SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN th LIVING WITH CANCER 9,848 TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION CORD BLOOD UNIT WE HAVE GIVEN THE AUSTRALIAN 3,357 BONE MARROW DONOR REGISTRY NOW LISTS PEOPLE A 2ND CHANCE 173, 4 91 AT LIFE POTENTIAL BONE MARROW DONORS BMDI ROTARY HOUSE HAS BEEN A HOME AWAY FROM HOME FOR 402 FAMILIES 8 Fight Cancer Foundation | Annual Report 2010 Fight Cancer Foundation | Annual Report 2010 9 { THE REAL STORY } SHEA Diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at age 13. TODAY SHEA IS A 2ND YEAR APPRENTICE IN CABINET MAKING. At 18 Shea is living his dream. He is a second year apprentice in cabinet making and loving it! Since Shea was a child he THE dreamed of working with his hands and creating something of value, something he could be proud of. But it wasn’t long ago that cancer almost prevented Shea’s dream from coming true. Shea was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia at 13. His and his family’s world was turned completely REAL upside down. Shea had to leave school and his friends. He and his family relocated from Tasmania to Melbourne for treatment at the Royal Children’s Hospital. They moved into BMDI Rotary House and Shea commenced a 13 month program of chemotherapy. Being away from school and his friends was hard on Shea until he entered the STORY. Fight Cancer Back On Track program. A tutor worked around Shea’s hospital visits and appointments, keeping him up Behind all the fi gures and the data are the people - the people whose to date with the same year 7 academic work as his classmates. The program lives have been affected from the moment they receive their organised various ways for Shea to diagnosis. The true meaning of our work rests in giving keep in contact with his teachers and these patients a second chance at life. classmates so he wouldn’t feel isolated. When Shea returned to Tasmania he was able to start year 8 with his friends. Here, we share the stories of just fi ve special people “I felt really comfortable returning to Back on Track helped by the Fight Cancer Foundation the next year at school. Without Back in the past 21 years. On Track I wouldn’t have been able to helped me feel settle into the school work anywhere near as well as I did.” Instilling confi dence to reach for his comfortable dreams, the Fight Cancer Foundation helped Shea on his journey towards settling back into school becoming a cabinet maker. “I love watching something come from and keeping up nothing, being able to build something with my mates.