Rally for Recovery in Tomakin continues to go from strength to strength in its mission to fund much-needed childhood cancer research in Australia.
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Last week the charity's president Ken Sloan presented a cheque for $100,000 to Jessica Theng, business manager for the Children's Cancer Center at the Sydney Children's Hospital in Randwick.
Rally for Recovery also donated about $330,000 to the Sydney Children's Hospital last year, and pitched in another $25,000 for the oncology unit at Moruya Hospital.
Mr Sloan said it was another big achievement for the group that started from a "car boot sale" in Tomakin almost 18 years ago.
"Most of our funding goes to the Children's Cancer Centre at Randwick, but we do try to help everyone we can," he said.
"We also give donations to our local oncology unit at Moruya, we gave them about $25,000 worth of equipment last year."
Rally for Recovery accepts donations of furniture, clothing, electronics, whitegoods, or anything else that fits in a home, and then on-sells it at their shed in Tomakin.
Aside from operational costs, all proceeds end up in the hands of the Children's Cancer Centre or the local oncology unit.
"I've got a good group of volunteers who have been working very effectively over the past decade or so," Mr Sloan said.
"We had to buy ourselves a new truck for pickups and deliveries, and we'll have 40 to 50 volunteers on a Saturday or Wednesday morning.
"We've done several extensions on our shed over the years, and we're chasing up another one now to make more room because we're running out of space.
"We'll get more than 300 people through every day we're open, and it just keeps getting better."
Mr Sloan said Rally for Recovery had only achieved its great results thanks to the support of the community.
"The local community has been fantastic," he said.
"We had a record year last year, and it just keeps growing because the community supports us.
"The Premier came in last year when they opened the Batemans Bay bridge, and she told us it was one of the best community things she'd seen.
"We get people coming down from Ulladulla, up from south of Bodalla, and we get people coming all the way from Braidwood.
"We're very proud of what we've achieved over the years."
Joel Erickson
Contact me at j.erickson@austcommunity.com.au or 0447 796 748.
Contact me at j.erickson@austcommunity.com.au or 0447 796 748.
