Child Cancer Research Foundation

01/10/2026

☕️💛 It’s International Coffee Day, so here’s a good reason to make your next bag GOLD.

Exactly one week ago today, we launched GOLD with our friends at Bolt Coffee Roasters.

It’s locally roasted coffee with something extra behind it. Every bag sold directly supports CCRF, helping fund childhood cancer research and support young people beyond treatment.

So if coffee is already on your shopping list, whether it’s for home, the office or as a gift, consider making your next bag GOLD. You’ll be supporting a local WA business, and helping fund work that can make a difference to kids and young people affected by cancer.

After the response to GOLD in its first week, we’re pretty excited to see where this little bag of coffee can go. 💛

GOLD. Brewing Hope.

☕ 👉 Shop GOLD at Bolt Coffee Roasters: boltcoffee.com.au/products/gold

28/09/2026

☕️💛 GOLD IS OFFICIALLY BREWING!

Last Thursday we officially launched GOLD: Brewing Hope, our new collaboration with Bolt Coffee Roasters, and this one feels pretty special.

What began with Bolt supporting our Keep the Flame Alive Quiz Night has grown into a genuine partnership, and a new way for our community to support kids and young people affected by cancer.

We were delighted to have Steve Catania MLA, Hon Klasey Hirst MLC and Rebekah Sheedy from the office of Hon Matt Swinbourn MLC join the Bolt and CCRF teams to officially launch GOLD.

Oh, and we brought a little piece of CCRF history with us. 💛 The gold ribbon in these photos is part of the giant awareness ribbon from our 2014 Guinness World Record, brought back to mark the beginning of something new.

The idea behind GOLD is simple: You already buy coffee. Why not make that coffee do some good? When your current coffee runs out, make your next bag GOLD.

You’ll be supporting a local WA business that supports CCRF, while helping fund childhood cancer research, and support young people beyond treatment.

Same coffee budget. Greater impact. ☕️ GOLD. Brewing Hope.

👉 Grab your bag of GOLD here: www.boltcoffee.com.au/products/gold

🎗 Read the story behind GOLD and our partnership with Bolt Coffee Roasters: www.childcancerresearch.com.au/gold-launch-bolt-coffee/

28/09/2026

Surviving childhood cancer should be the beginning of a long, healthy life. For many children, treatment can leave effects that last well beyond cancer.

This 7NEWS report gives families a voice in a conversation that matters: how do we develop treatments that save children’s lives while doing less harm to their growing bodies?

It’s why continued investment in childhood cancer research matters. We need better treatments, and we need to keep listening to survivors and families about life after treatment.

At the Child Cancer Research Foundation, kids and families have always been our reason. Your support helps us fund childhood cancer research and support young people beyond treatment.

Read their stories in the report below.

If you’d like to support CCRF’s work: https://childcancerresearch.com.au/donate/

Two in three children who survive cancer are left with lifelong damage from treatments designed for adults.

23/09/2026

☕ Meet GOLD. Together, we’re Brewing Hope. 💛

Sometimes making a difference can start with something as simple as your morning coffee.

Tomorrow, we’re proud to launch GOLD, a new coffee created with our friends at Bolt Coffee Roasters, with every bag helping fund childhood cancer research and support young people beyond treatment.

For CCRF, this partnership brings together something people already enjoy every day with a cause that has been at the heart of our work for 46 years: creating better futures for kids with cancer.

GOLD launches 10:30am, Thursday 24 September at Bolt Coffee Roasters in Midland and online. Come down, try GOLD in the hopper and take home a bag of your own!

Good coffee. Brighter futures. 💛

👉 Read the story behind GOLD: https://childcancerresearch.com.au/brewing-hope/

☕ Grab your bag of GOLD today! 🎗https://www.boltcoffee.com.au/products/gold

📍 Bolt Coffee Roasters Midland: Rear entry, 338B Great Eastern Hwy, 1 Byers Road Midland, 6056

22/09/2026

Today, our Childhood Cancer Awareness Ribbon Cookies reached the heart of childhood cancer care in WA: Perth Children’s Hospital. 💛

With the generous help of Andy & Sam, Volunteer and Donation Services officers at PCH, we delivered 190 cookies across the hospital:

🎗️ 100 to the paediatric oncology ward, including cookies for the two family rooms and ward staff
🎗️ 30 to the Clinic H paediatric oncology outpatient team
🎗️ 30 for the survivorship clinic
🎗️ 30 for the research teams at the Comprehensive Kids Cancer Centre and Kids Institute Australia

We also left CCRF newsletters at each location, helping more people learn about the research, support and advocacy made possible by our community.

The cookies were warmly received everywhere we went, but the most meaningful part of the day was meeting the clinicians, researchers and staff who care for children and families affected by cancer.

Sometimes a small gesture creates the opportunity for a much bigger conversation. Today’s delivery helped us strengthen important relationships within the hospital and opened the door to many more conversations to come.

Thank you to everyone who welcomed us so warmly and a special thank you also to Stacey from By the Brook Creations for bringing these beautiful cookies to life.

22/09/2026

A child with cancer is still a child.

A child who misses their friends.

Who wants to sleep in their own bed.

Who would rather be at school, playing sport, making a mess, celebrating birthdays and worrying about ordinary childhood things.

Cancer can quickly fill a child’s world with appointments, procedures, unfamiliar faces and words no child should need to understand.

But their childhood is still there.

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we are thinking about every child whose ordinary life has been interrupted by cancer, and every family trying to hold onto the pieces of childhood that treatment cannot be allowed to take away.

This is why research matters.

Not only so more children survive, but so they can return to the lives waiting for them beyond cancer.

Your donation can help fund the research needed to create better treatments and brighter futures for children with cancer.

🎗️ Please donate to the Child Cancer Research Foundation today: www.childcancerresearch.com.au/donate

Because childhood is worth protecting. 💛

15/09/2026

A Childhood Cancer Awareness Ribbon Cookie may have brought people over. What mattered was the conversation it started. 💛

Today, Child Cancer Research Foundation (CCRF) Chair Tracy Hollington, Head of Development Michele Dalton and Ambassador & childhood cancer survivor, Georgia Lowry spent time at The Parliament of Western Australia sharing the message of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Members and parliamentary staff came into the courtyard to meet our team, collect a cookie and talk about children with cancer, the challenges their families face and why research and ongoing support matter.

Georgia’s lived experience brought an important personal voice to those conversations, connecting the decisions made in Parliament with the children and families whose lives are shaped by them.

The response was extraordinary. Every CCRF newsletter we brought was taken, and many Members stopped for photos, including Premier Roger Cook MLA, pictured with the Hon Matt Swinbourn MLC and Steve Catania MLA.

A special thank you to Matt and his exceptional team, who transformed a simple idea to share our cookies with members of parliament, into an opportunity for CCRF to meet Members face to face at Parliament House, we are incredibly grateful for their generosity and support. 💛

Every cookie was handmade by talented local small business owner and CCRF supporter Stacey Nash-Walton from By the Brook Creations. By commissioning Stacey, we could support a small local business, while her skills helped us start these important conversations. A genuine win-win. Thank you, Stacey.

But today wasn’t really just about the cookies. It was about keeping children with cancer and their families at the forefront of the minds of the people who help shape our state. Thank you to every person who stopped, listened and asked questions. Every conversation helped keep children with cancer and their families visible. 💛

If you would like some of our Childhood Cancer Awareness Ribbon Cookies to help start conversations in your workplace, or community, please contact the CCRF office on 9363 7400.

The cookies may be gone from Parliament House, but we hope the conversations continue for many years to come. 💛

03/09/2026

🔥 WHAT A NIGHT. WHAT A RESULT. 🔥

We are incredibly proud to announce that the 2026 Keep the Flame Alive Quiz Night raised an amazing $50,062.32 for the Child Cancer Research Foundationand the Back on Track Foundation! ❤️💛

That brings the total raised through this event since 2017 to an incredible $251,718.87.

To think that across nine Quiz Nights we’ve raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for kids with cancer... feels pretty damn good. ❤️

Every ticket bought, prize donated, raffle ticket sold, auction bid made and helping hand given contributed to this result.

And yes... it’s taken us three weeks to finally announce it! 😅 There have been hundreds of photos to sort through, final tallies to reconcile and a LOT of wonderful sponsors, donors and supporters to properly acknowledge. You’ll be seeing plenty more of those thank-yous over the coming days.

Together, you helped change lives, and bring hope to kids and families. From all of us at the Child Cancer Research Foundation and the Back on Track Foundation, thank you. ❤️💛

31/08/2026

💛 September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

For children diagnosed with cancer, survival matters. But so does everything that comes after.

For more than four decades, Child Cancer Research Foundation has helped fund research into childhood cancers, contributing to better treatments and better outcomes for children and young people.

But there is still so much work to do.

We want treatments that are not only more effective, but kinder. We want fewer children living with the lifelong effects of the cancer treatments that saved them. And we want every child and young person affected by cancer to have the opportunity to live a healthy, fulfilling life beyond cancer.

That’s why this September, we’re asking our community to Go Gold for childhood cancer. 🎗️

💛 Fund research. Create hope. Change futures.

Every donation helps CCRF continue supporting research that can change what the future looks like for kids with cancer.

👉 Donate today: https://www.childcancerresearch/donate

🎗️ More research. More survivors. Better lives beyond cancer.

The Foundation relies on the generous support of the Australian community to continue its research, as we receive limited State or Federal funding.