About the Banking on our Kids appeal

What is Banking on our Kids?

Banking on our Kids is BOQ's major fundraising appeal of the year.

Throughout July each year, BOQ's entire national network of 270 branches, business banking centres, state administration centres and head office staff collect donations and hold fundraising activities to help raise vital funds for Children’s Hospital Foundations Australia (CHFA).

CHFA is a unique partnership of not one, but FIVE of the major children’s hospital foundations in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia and South Australia.

This year, BOQ is calling on all Australians to show how big their hearts are by getting behind the appeal and helping us blitz our fundraising target of $200,000.

Who are CHFA and what do they do?

Children's Hospital Foundations Australia is a national partnership of uniquely child-focused foundations supporting leading paediatric hospitals.

Their vision is to end the suffering of sick children by supporting initiatives that generate breakthrough treatments and cures to make a difference.

Each member hospital is among Australia’s oldest and most respected children’s charities and drive dynamic medical research programs that aim to find new treatments and cures for childhood disease. They are the:
 

• Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (Queensland);
• Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation (New South Wales);
• Royal Children's Hospital Foundation (Victoria);
• Women & Children’s Hospital Foundation (South Australia); and
• Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation (Western Australia).

There are few people in Australia whose lives have not been, or will not be touched by a children’s hospital, which treat or admit more than one million children each year.

Funds raised are channelled into paediatric research initiatives impacting the treatment and care of sick children. These projects range from complex laboratory investigations to studies at the bedside.

With the Foundations working together, it means less duplication and better use of resources. It also means that the money raised goes where it should go – into breakthrough treatments and cures to make a difference in the lives of sick and terminally ill children.

How you can help

This year you can 'show how big your heart is' by making a donation at your local BOQ branch, or online by clicking on the pink Helping Heart, and write a message of encouragement to a sick kid in hospital.

These Helping Hearts will not only raise significant funds for CHFA, they will also raise a kid's spirits.

You can also get behind any fundraising events being conducted by the BOQ branch in your community.

There are also a number of ways you can donate directly to the Banking on our Kids appeal.