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Live for Lily is now registered with Everyday Hero, one of the worlds leading and secure fundraising platforms. • • Supporters of ours who participate in various fundraising events that use Everyday Hero as their fundraising platform are now able to set up a fundraising page at their favourite event to raise money for Live for Lily and to help us in our mission to see an end to childhood cancer. • • Some of the major events in Australia that use Everday Hero as their fundraising platform are the Melbourne Marathon Festival, Gold Coast Marathon, Tough Mudder, City to Surf, the Colour Run and many more fabulous events. You can see the full list of events here https://www.everydayhero.com/au/fundraising-events-to-participate-in/. • • Our fabulous friends at @airport_toyota have entered a team in this year’s Melbourne Half Marathon and have set a goal of raising $3,000 for Live for Lily. So if you would like to support the runners in this year event which is taking place in October, you can donate at https://melbournemarathon2020.everydayhero.com/au/airport-toyota. • • So if you’re thinking of entering the Melbourne Marathon or half marathon or other event in the future, check to see if they use Everyday Hero and set up a fundraising page to raise money for Live for Lily. • • #LiveforLily #melbournemarathon
Childhood Cancer personalised medicine program (ZERO) Update • This is wonderful news....😃 ⬇️⬇️ With the support of the Federal Government and the @minderoofoundation, the ZERO program will now extend genetic testing to ALL Australian children diagnosed with cancer, by 2023. • Until now, ZERO was only available to children across Australia who were diagnosed with the most aggressive cancers, or who had relapsed with less than 30% chance of survival. This new funding announcement will now mean that every child at the time of diagnosis will have access to this ground breaking program, bringing hope to thousands children who have been diagnosed with cancer and their families. • More information on this funding announcement can be found here https://ccia.org.au/67m-funding-collaboration-all-australian-children-with-cancer-to-access-world-class-personalised-medicine/ • Live for Lily is a proud supporter of the @childrenscancerinstitute and the ZERO program, having to date donated $1,010,000 towards funding research into personalised medicine. • And even though we have had to postpone our two major fundraising events this year, the Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic and Butterfly Ball due to the COIVID-19 pandemic, this week, Live for Lily has made a further $20,000 donation to continue our support of this vital program. This will go some way to assisting researchers and helping fund one or two children through this program to give them the best chance at survival. • As a Foundation, we are now starting to turn our attention to a massive 2021 with the Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic locked in to begin on April 11th and the Butterfly Ball back at Crown Palladium on the 19th June 2021. • Rider registrations for the re-run of the Alpine Epic will soon be open to new riders at www.liveforlily.org.au so if you are keen to make a difference, you can start your training today and sign up when registrations open. • And for those supporters who, like us, will be sad not to be getting all dressed up this year for the Butterfly Ball, lock in 19th June 2021 as the key date for next year and help us make the 2021 Butterfly Ball the biggest yet! #LiveforLily #RideforLily #ButterflyBall
Continuing to create awareness. • • Thank you to Mark Tognon and the fantastic committee at Keilor East Rotary Club for inviting Philip Martins from Live for Lily to speak at their club meeting via Zoom this evening. • • We appreciate the opportunity to continue to raise awareness for our Ride for Lily and Butterfly Ball fundraising events and for childhood cancer research in general. • • 3 children die every week in Australia from childhood cancer and that is 3 too many, so any opportunity that will increase awareness of the work of our foundation, which can hopefully result in more funds for childhood cancer research is truely appreciated. • • #LiveforLily #ButterflyBall
Well this weekend should have seen the start of the 2020 Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic, our 5th Ride for Lily, riding to find a cure for childhood cancer. Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis put an end our plans this year. • • We want to thank all our riders who trained and fundraised so hard for the event over the past 6 months - including these three guys - @menamespanda, @harv32silver and @mash289, our Bendigo contingent of the 21 riders who signed up to help us raise vital funds for childhood cancer research. • • Whilst we know all the riders are disappointed not be rolling out of Canberra on Sunday morning bright and early, you can all be super proud of your efforts to get to this point and can look forward to being even stronger in 12 months time when we run it back!! • • We were fortunate enough to get the @bendigomagazine to run a fantastic story on the Foundation featuring our dedicated riders from Bendigo this year. You can view the link online at https://issuu.com/bendigomagazine/docs/bgomag58?fr=sYWFkMzEwNjc2ODY (starting at page 107) or read from the images below. • • #RideforLily #LiveforLily @childrenscancerinstitute @airport_toyota
We regretfully announce that due to the current COVID-19 pandemic health emergency, both our 2020 Ride for Lily – Alpine Epic and 2020 Butterfly Ball are to be postponed until 2021. • • The Ride for Lily – Alpine Epic will now take place from April 11th to 17th 2021, whilst our Butterfly Ball will now be held on Saturday 19th June 2021 at Crown Palladium. • • As our supporters know, our Ride for Lily and Butterfly Ball are our two premier fundraising events organised to assist in finding a cure for childhood cancer, so that no parent has to endure the loss of a child. In keeping with our purpose, we felt that it is our responsibility as a childhood cancer foundation to do everything we can to minimise the spread of COVID-19, and to ensure the health and safety of our volunteers, riders, guests and the broader community who would have played a part in both of these events. • • Childhood cancer does not discriminate and will continue to affect many children during this uncertain period ahead. We will continue to work tirelessly on our fundraising efforts in line with our mission to find a cure for childhood cancer and towards staging an even more epic Ride for Lily and bigger and better Butterfly Ball in 2021. Thank you to everyone who has supported us, and who continue to support us during this challenging time. • • We hope this health crisis passes soon, and all of our supporters and their loved ones remain safe. • • #LiveforLily #RideforLily #ButterflyBall
2020 Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic riders Daniel Mundy and Paul Layzell recently held a Comedy Gala fundraising event with the evening being a great success raising over $10k! • • This couldn't have happened without the generosity of many and we would like to thank all those who attended on the night and the wonderful comedians, who were incredibly entertaining; Bradford Oakes, Christine Basil and @daniel_connell_comedy. A big thank you also goes to the @nelsontwinscomedy, who couldn't be there on the night, but who were instrumental in putting together this very funny line up. • • We would also like to thank the following generous donors; ⬇️ @airoldifinewines Anytime Locksmiths (www.anytimelocksmiths.com) @barelaserandskin Black Rock Cellars @foxeyshangout Instant Stages (www.melbournestagehire.com.au) @kingston_heath Leighton IT (www.leightonit.com.au) @starsbbl Matt & Kim Nunn @28bysamwood @sabuki_salon @theskinboutique Tony Noonan @true_south • • #LiveforLily #RideforLily
Tables to the 2020 Butterfly Ball at Palladium at Crown, proudly sponsored by @airport_toyota, will go on sale at 9am Monday April 6th. • • The Butterfly Ball is Live for Lily's annual signature black-tie gala ball. Now in its 5th year, the Butterfly Ball has helped raise over half a million dollars in the fight against childhood cancer. Last year the Butterfly Ball raised over $130,000 and we hope to go even higher this year. • • The evening is an opportunity for all partners and supporters of Live for Lily to come together for an amazing night of fun, entertainment and most importantly raising vital funds to help cure childhood cancer. All proceeds from the evening will go directly to the @childrenscancerinstitute Zero Childhood Cancer program. • • The Butterfly Ball promises to be an extraordinary night. It will boast an impressive culinary experience, boutique wines, rocking live music from the @samludeman Band, DJ tunes from Melbourne based and internationally renowned @djclaireelliott, other special guests and unique auction items but more than that, it promises to be a night you will never forget. • • So start your planning now and get your friends, family and work colleagues and be ready to book a table when they go on sale at 9am on Monday 6th April. • • #LiveforLily #ButterflyBall @realjostanley #samludemanband
💰Ride for Lily 2020 Fundraising Update💰 • • The participants in this years Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic have not only been busy out training but they also have been very busy fundraising for childhood cancer research. • • ✅ We have now achieved over 50% of our goal of raising over $105,000 and with six weeks to go until our riders cycle out of Canberra to ride 1,000 in seven days, we are really excited to get closer every day to our fundraising target. • • Each rider has committed to raise $5,000 for the Foundation through various fundraising initiatives. • • Our only female rider in this years Alpine Epic, and 2nd time participant in the Ride for Lily, Sam Harrison, is almost at her $5k goal and she has set up an online raffle with various cool prizes for grabs 🤘 • • So if you would like to help support childhood cancer research, and potentially win a very cool prize, go online at https://www.rafflelink.com.au/2020alpineepic and pick up some tickets today. • • @airport_toyota #LiveforLily #RideforLily2020
Live for Lily is now registered with Everyday Hero, one of the worlds leading and secure fundraising platforms. • • Supporters of ours who participate in various fundraising events that use Everyday Hero as their fundraising platform are now able to set up a fundraising page at their favourite event to raise money for Live for Lily and to help us in our mission to see an end to childhood cancer. • • Some of the major events in Australia that use Everday Hero as their fundraising platform are the Melbourne Marathon Festival, Gold Coast Marathon, Tough Mudder, City to Surf, the Colour Run and many more fabulous events. You can see the full list of events here https://www.everydayhero.com/au/fundraising-events-to-participate-in/. • • Our fabulous friends at @airport_toyota have entered a team in this year’s Melbourne Half Marathon and have set a goal of raising $3,000 for Live for Lily. So if you would like to support the runners in this year event which is taking place in October, you can donate at https://melbournemarathon2020.everydayhero.com/au/airport-toyota. • • So if you’re thinking of entering the Melbourne Marathon or half marathon or other event in the future, check to see if they use Everyday Hero and set up a fundraising page to raise money for Live for Lily. • • #LiveforLily #melbournemarathon
Childhood Cancer personalised medicine program (ZERO) Update • This is wonderful news....😃 ⬇️⬇️ With the support of the Federal Government and the @minderoofoundation, the ZERO program will now extend genetic testing to ALL Australian children diagnosed with cancer, by 2023. • Until now, ZERO was only available to children across Australia who were diagnosed with the most aggressive cancers, or who had relapsed with less than 30% chance of survival. This new funding announcement will now mean that every child at the time of diagnosis will have access to this ground breaking program, bringing hope to thousands children who have been diagnosed with cancer and their families. • More information on this funding announcement can be found here https://ccia.org.au/67m-funding-collaboration-all-australian-children-with-cancer-to-access-world-class-personalised-medicine/ • Live for Lily is a proud supporter of the @childrenscancerinstitute and the ZERO program, having to date donated $1,010,000 towards funding research into personalised medicine. • And even though we have had to postpone our two major fundraising events this year, the Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic and Butterfly Ball due to the COIVID-19 pandemic, this week, Live for Lily has made a further $20,000 donation to continue our support of this vital program. This will go some way to assisting researchers and helping fund one or two children through this program to give them the best chance at survival. • As a Foundation, we are now starting to turn our attention to a massive 2021 with the Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic locked in to begin on April 11th and the Butterfly Ball back at Crown Palladium on the 19th June 2021. • Rider registrations for the re-run of the Alpine Epic will soon be open to new riders at www.liveforlily.org.au so if you are keen to make a difference, you can start your training today and sign up when registrations open. • And for those supporters who, like us, will be sad not to be getting all dressed up this year for the Butterfly Ball, lock in 19th June 2021 as the key date for next year and help us make the 2021 Butterfly Ball the biggest yet! #LiveforLily #RideforLily #ButterflyBall
Continuing to create awareness. • • Thank you to Mark Tognon and the fantastic committee at Keilor East Rotary Club for inviting Philip Martins from Live for Lily to speak at their club meeting via Zoom this evening. • • We appreciate the opportunity to continue to raise awareness for our Ride for Lily and Butterfly Ball fundraising events and for childhood cancer research in general. • • 3 children die every week in Australia from childhood cancer and that is 3 too many, so any opportunity that will increase awareness of the work of our foundation, which can hopefully result in more funds for childhood cancer research is truely appreciated. • • #LiveforLily #ButterflyBall
Well this weekend should have seen the start of the 2020 Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic, our 5th Ride for Lily, riding to find a cure for childhood cancer. Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic crisis put an end our plans this year. • • We want to thank all our riders who trained and fundraised so hard for the event over the past 6 months - including these three guys - @menamespanda, @harv32silver and @mash289, our Bendigo contingent of the 21 riders who signed up to help us raise vital funds for childhood cancer research. • • Whilst we know all the riders are disappointed not be rolling out of Canberra on Sunday morning bright and early, you can all be super proud of your efforts to get to this point and can look forward to being even stronger in 12 months time when we run it back!! • • We were fortunate enough to get the @bendigomagazine to run a fantastic story on the Foundation featuring our dedicated riders from Bendigo this year. You can view the link online at https://issuu.com/bendigomagazine/docs/bgomag58?fr=sYWFkMzEwNjc2ODY (starting at page 107) or read from the images below. • • #RideforLily #LiveforLily @childrenscancerinstitute @airport_toyota
We regretfully announce that due to the current COVID-19 pandemic health emergency, both our 2020 Ride for Lily – Alpine Epic and 2020 Butterfly Ball are to be postponed until 2021. • • The Ride for Lily – Alpine Epic will now take place from April 11th to 17th 2021, whilst our Butterfly Ball will now be held on Saturday 19th June 2021 at Crown Palladium. • • As our supporters know, our Ride for Lily and Butterfly Ball are our two premier fundraising events organised to assist in finding a cure for childhood cancer, so that no parent has to endure the loss of a child. In keeping with our purpose, we felt that it is our responsibility as a childhood cancer foundation to do everything we can to minimise the spread of COVID-19, and to ensure the health and safety of our volunteers, riders, guests and the broader community who would have played a part in both of these events. • • Childhood cancer does not discriminate and will continue to affect many children during this uncertain period ahead. We will continue to work tirelessly on our fundraising efforts in line with our mission to find a cure for childhood cancer and towards staging an even more epic Ride for Lily and bigger and better Butterfly Ball in 2021. Thank you to everyone who has supported us, and who continue to support us during this challenging time. • • We hope this health crisis passes soon, and all of our supporters and their loved ones remain safe. • • #LiveforLily #RideforLily #ButterflyBall
2020 Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic riders Daniel Mundy and Paul Layzell recently held a Comedy Gala fundraising event with the evening being a great success raising over $10k! • • This couldn't have happened without the generosity of many and we would like to thank all those who attended on the night and the wonderful comedians, who were incredibly entertaining; Bradford Oakes, Christine Basil and @daniel_connell_comedy. A big thank you also goes to the @nelsontwinscomedy, who couldn't be there on the night, but who were instrumental in putting together this very funny line up. • • We would also like to thank the following generous donors; ⬇️ @airoldifinewines Anytime Locksmiths (www.anytimelocksmiths.com) @barelaserandskin Black Rock Cellars @foxeyshangout Instant Stages (www.melbournestagehire.com.au) @kingston_heath Leighton IT (www.leightonit.com.au) @starsbbl Matt & Kim Nunn @28bysamwood @sabuki_salon @theskinboutique Tony Noonan @true_south • • #LiveforLily #RideforLily
Tables to the 2020 Butterfly Ball at Palladium at Crown, proudly sponsored by @airport_toyota, will go on sale at 9am Monday April 6th. • • The Butterfly Ball is Live for Lily's annual signature black-tie gala ball. Now in its 5th year, the Butterfly Ball has helped raise over half a million dollars in the fight against childhood cancer. Last year the Butterfly Ball raised over $130,000 and we hope to go even higher this year. • • The evening is an opportunity for all partners and supporters of Live for Lily to come together for an amazing night of fun, entertainment and most importantly raising vital funds to help cure childhood cancer. All proceeds from the evening will go directly to the @childrenscancerinstitute Zero Childhood Cancer program. • • The Butterfly Ball promises to be an extraordinary night. It will boast an impressive culinary experience, boutique wines, rocking live music from the @samludeman Band, DJ tunes from Melbourne based and internationally renowned @djclaireelliott, other special guests and unique auction items but more than that, it promises to be a night you will never forget. • • So start your planning now and get your friends, family and work colleagues and be ready to book a table when they go on sale at 9am on Monday 6th April. • • #LiveforLily #ButterflyBall @realjostanley #samludemanband
💰Ride for Lily 2020 Fundraising Update💰 • • The participants in this years Ride for Lily - Alpine Epic have not only been busy out training but they also have been very busy fundraising for childhood cancer research. • • ✅ We have now achieved over 50% of our goal of raising over $105,000 and with six weeks to go until our riders cycle out of Canberra to ride 1,000 in seven days, we are really excited to get closer every day to our fundraising target. • • Each rider has committed to raise $5,000 for the Foundation through various fundraising initiatives. • • Our only female rider in this years Alpine Epic, and 2nd time participant in the Ride for Lily, Sam Harrison, is almost at her $5k goal and she has set up an online raffle with various cool prizes for grabs 🤘 • • So if you would like to help support childhood cancer research, and potentially win a very cool prize, go online at https://www.rafflelink.com.au/2020alpineepic and pick up some tickets today. • • @airport_toyota #LiveforLily #RideforLily2020
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