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Today's topic of choice is Sydney Charity Events. Once again, this subject arises as a followup (perhaps afterthought or to add emphasis) to yesterday's blog, Sydney Fairtrade Fortnight.
I guess in essence I wanted to draw attention to the importance of raising awareness of charity events and organisations in these financially trying times. It's understandable we're all trying to spend less and save what we can, though it's easy to forget that while we may be facing a relatively tough period, there are always those who have less than us, and they are consequentially doing it rougher.
As more and more people lose their financial well being, they are forced to rely on charitable organisations, placing more demand on those organisations who in turn rely on our contribution.
Get involved in one of these charity events or organisations this year, and contribute to a strenghtened society.
Sydney Charity events
'Yes 4 Kids' Electric Blue Colour Ball for Redkite
The Y4K Colour Ball raises funds for Redkite, which provides essential emotional, financial and educational support to children, young people and their families facing the long and difficult journey of childhood cancer.
2MAX FM Convoy for Kids
2MAX FM Convoy for Kids is a Truck, Vintage car and Hot Rod convoy along the highway through Narrabri to our 2Max FM studios. All proceeds from the day go to the kids wards at our local hospitals. Plenty of entertainment, Talent Quest, Auction, and more.
Convoy For Kids Goulburn
Day includes: Trucks convoy, stalls, entertainment, a monster auction and judging of the trucks. 8am - Trucks assemble at Gateway Service Station. 10am - Trucks convoy through Auburn Street and arrive for a family day at Belmore Park.
Diabetes Buzz Day
Diabetes Buzz Day - the annual fundraising event for Diabetes Australia-NSW will be held on Friday, 18 September and in the next few weeks more than 200,000 flashing pens, torch keyrings, magnetic badges and buzz bees will sent out to selected retail stores.
Field of Women
Breast Cancer Network Australia is calling on 13,000 people - representing the number of Australians diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 - to stand together and create the first ever Sydney Field of Women LIVE before the Sydney Swans v St Kilda match.
Great Australian Bite
Share a bite to help fight Diabetes This April, people from across NSW will be sharing food, having fun and enjoying friendships as they get together for the 'Great Australian Bite' to help raise money for those living with diabetes in Australia.
Kids In Need Dragon Boat Festival
This is a fun annual charity event that attracts teams from both side of the border to compete in boat races and other activities. Dragon Boat Racing started in China around 2000 years ago and is a great team sport.
Lifestart Kayak for Kids
A 17.5km paddling event raising funds and awareness for Lifestart, a charity helping kids with disabilities. Broken down in 4 legs of 4-5km each, this event can be completed by solo paddlers on their own craft or by corporate relay teams.
Michael's Ride For Cancer
Michael is a 16 year old and is doing a solo bike ride from Melbourne to Sydney to raise money for the Cancer Council. He leaves Essendon, Melbourne on the 12th May and arrives at the Relay for Life at Castle Hill Showground, Sydney on 17th May.
Pink Ribbon Breakfast
Pink Ribbon breakfasts are a fun, early morning get-together of friends, family or workmates to celebrate the achievements of breast cancer research and raise funds for further research.
Royal North Shore Hospital Cancer Services Ball
On Friday the 16th of October, 2009 the second annual Cancer Services Ball will be held at Dockside Darling Harbour. A cancer diagnosis is a devastating blow, and 100% of a patient's energy needs to be dedicated to recovery.
Starlight Day
Starlight Day is the annual national fundraising event for the Starlight Children's Foundation Australia, to be held on 1st May in 2009, and raises vital funds for children and families who live with serious illness and hospitalisation.
Three Bridges Walk for Kids With Cancer
Join us starting at Kirrabilli, across the Harbour Bridge, over the Darling Harbour overpass, over the Anzac Bridge, up Victoria Road and all the way across the Iron Cove Bridge, ending on the grass on the Birkinhead side of the bridge.
Triple Climb 09
Triple Climb 09 supports The Smith Family to help disadvantaged Aussie kids to create a brighter future through education. The Smith Family Challenge is an annual event that tests the stamina and fitness of individuals against the elements.
Walk for AIDS
ACON, Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) and Positive Life NSW are once again hosting the Walk for AIDS on Sunday 22 November 2009. Now in its fourth year, the Walk for AIDS raises much needed funds for services for HIV positive people.
Amateur Ashes Charity Event
On Australia Day come down and watch the Amateur Ashes (the Aussies vs the English) and enjoy a BBQ, raffles, live music and lots of entertainment for the kids. All money raised will be donated to Red Kite, a Children's Cancer Charity.
Bandaged Bear Day
The Bandaged Bear Day Appeal is a wonderful event and chance to support The Children's Hospital at Westmead by purchasing Bandaged Bear Day merchandise throughout the month of March.
Sydney Charity Organisations
CanTeen
CanTeen - The Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer, is the national support organisation for young people (aged 12-24) living with cancer.
Caritas Australia
The Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development. Caritas Australia helps people help themselves - regardless of race, religion or political beliefs.
Charity Greeting Cards
Charity Greeting Cards is a wholesale publisher of Greetings Cards specifically to Australian Charities. We assist our Charity clients by marketing and promoting the Christmas Cards that we have manufactured for them through this website.
Legacy
Legacy is a uniquely Australian organisation, established in 1923 by ex-servicemen dedicated to the task of caring for the widows and dependants of their comrades.
Lifeline Sydney
Lifeline Sydney provides a 24 hour crisis telephone counselling service. The service is delivered by volunteers who are skilled and equipped to assist those who call by providing counselling support and referral options.
Make-A-Wish Australia
Make-A-Wish Australia has been granting wishes to children and young people since 1985. Wishes bring magic, joy and hope to these children and their families, as well as unforgettable experiences.
Oxfam Australia
Oxfam Australia is an Australian, independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organisation. Our vision is of a fair world in which people control their own lives, their basic rights are achieved and the environment is sustained.
OzHarvest - Rescuing Food for Sydney's Charities
OzHarvest is a Sydney-based charity that collects excess food and delivers it, free of charge, to organizations that feed disadvantaged men, women and children in our community.
Redkite
Redkite is an Australian charity that supports children, young people and their families through cancer by providing emotional guidance, financial assistance and educational services.
Save the Children
Save the Children Australia remains focused on programs that directly benefit the lives of children and their communities. Save the Children Australia's program breadth can be demonstrated by the number of programs we design and directly implement.
The Australian Charities Fund
The Australian Charities Fund is an Australian founded and led organisation established to facilitate the development of Workplace Giving programs, and associated community involvement programs, within large employer organisations.
The Benevolent Society
The Benevolent Society is an independent, secular, not-for-profit organisation with a long history of working with communities to create positive change. The Benevolent Society works with individuals and communities in metropolitan, regional and rural New South Wales and in South East Queensland.
The Leukaemia Foundation
We are dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.
The Shepherd Centre
The Shepherd Centre works with children who are deaf and hearing impaired to teach them to speak and communicate in the hearing world. The approach focuses on listening as the foundation for developing spoken language, through the use of hearing devices...
The Starlight Children's Foundation
Since being formed as an Australian children's charity in 1988, the Starlight Children's Foundation has brightened the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children, and their families, by delivering innovative programs that restore fun, laughter and joy that a life-threatening illness takes away.
The Sydney Cancer Centre
The Sydney Cancer Centre is at the forefront of cancer treatment and research in Australia. Cancer Information and Support.
The Sydney Kids Committee
The Sydney Kids Committee is a volunteer group dedicated to supporting the Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick.
UNICEF
UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund, the world's leading advocate for children. UNICEF is non-political and works in over 150 countries to make a lasting difference to the lives of women and children around the world, and advocates for the health of Indigenous children in Central Australia.
Wesley Mission
Wesley Mission has a real mission - to minister to a community with real needs. Our community includes the vulnerable and marginalised. It includes the lonely, hurt and fragile, the homeless, mentally ill, aged, disabled, unemployed.
World Vision
World Vision is Australia's largest overseas aid and humanitarian organisation. As well as providing relief in emergency situations, we work on long-term development projects with local communities to address the causes of poverty and help them become self-sufficient.
WWF-Australia
WWF-Australia is part of the WWF International Network, the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organisation. It has close to five million supporters and a global network active in more than 100 countries.
Youth Off The Streets
Youth Off The Streets is a community organisation supporting homeless and drug addicted young Australians as they work to turn their lives around. It is our goal that these young people will leave our care drug free, with a high school education.
Contributing to any of the above organisations is a great way to make a difference to individuals, families and society at large.
If you know of or are involved with a charitable organisation, or are organising an upcoming charitable event, you can advertise it with OnlySydney via the link free of charge.
I guess in essence I wanted to draw attention to the importance of raising awareness of charity events and organisations in these financially trying times. It's understandable we're all trying to spend less and save what we can, though it's easy to forget that while we may be facing a relatively tough period, there are always those who have less than us, and they are consequentially doing it rougher.
As more and more people lose their financial well being, they are forced to rely on charitable organisations, placing more demand on those organisations who in turn rely on our contribution.
Get involved in one of these charity events or organisations this year, and contribute to a strenghtened society.
Sydney Charity events
'Yes 4 Kids' Electric Blue Colour Ball for Redkite
The Y4K Colour Ball raises funds for Redkite, which provides essential emotional, financial and educational support to children, young people and their families facing the long and difficult journey of childhood cancer.
2MAX FM Convoy for Kids
2MAX FM Convoy for Kids is a Truck, Vintage car and Hot Rod convoy along the highway through Narrabri to our 2Max FM studios. All proceeds from the day go to the kids wards at our local hospitals. Plenty of entertainment, Talent Quest, Auction, and more.
Convoy For Kids Goulburn
Day includes: Trucks convoy, stalls, entertainment, a monster auction and judging of the trucks. 8am - Trucks assemble at Gateway Service Station. 10am - Trucks convoy through Auburn Street and arrive for a family day at Belmore Park.
Diabetes Buzz Day
Diabetes Buzz Day - the annual fundraising event for Diabetes Australia-NSW will be held on Friday, 18 September and in the next few weeks more than 200,000 flashing pens, torch keyrings, magnetic badges and buzz bees will sent out to selected retail stores.
Field of Women
Breast Cancer Network Australia is calling on 13,000 people - representing the number of Australians diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 - to stand together and create the first ever Sydney Field of Women LIVE before the Sydney Swans v St Kilda match.
Great Australian Bite
Share a bite to help fight Diabetes This April, people from across NSW will be sharing food, having fun and enjoying friendships as they get together for the 'Great Australian Bite' to help raise money for those living with diabetes in Australia.
Kids In Need Dragon Boat Festival
This is a fun annual charity event that attracts teams from both side of the border to compete in boat races and other activities. Dragon Boat Racing started in China around 2000 years ago and is a great team sport.
Lifestart Kayak for Kids
A 17.5km paddling event raising funds and awareness for Lifestart, a charity helping kids with disabilities. Broken down in 4 legs of 4-5km each, this event can be completed by solo paddlers on their own craft or by corporate relay teams.
Michael's Ride For Cancer
Michael is a 16 year old and is doing a solo bike ride from Melbourne to Sydney to raise money for the Cancer Council. He leaves Essendon, Melbourne on the 12th May and arrives at the Relay for Life at Castle Hill Showground, Sydney on 17th May.
Pink Ribbon Breakfast
Pink Ribbon breakfasts are a fun, early morning get-together of friends, family or workmates to celebrate the achievements of breast cancer research and raise funds for further research.
Royal North Shore Hospital Cancer Services Ball
On Friday the 16th of October, 2009 the second annual Cancer Services Ball will be held at Dockside Darling Harbour. A cancer diagnosis is a devastating blow, and 100% of a patient's energy needs to be dedicated to recovery.
Starlight Day
Starlight Day is the annual national fundraising event for the Starlight Children's Foundation Australia, to be held on 1st May in 2009, and raises vital funds for children and families who live with serious illness and hospitalisation.
Three Bridges Walk for Kids With Cancer
Join us starting at Kirrabilli, across the Harbour Bridge, over the Darling Harbour overpass, over the Anzac Bridge, up Victoria Road and all the way across the Iron Cove Bridge, ending on the grass on the Birkinhead side of the bridge.
Triple Climb 09
Triple Climb 09 supports The Smith Family to help disadvantaged Aussie kids to create a brighter future through education. The Smith Family Challenge is an annual event that tests the stamina and fitness of individuals against the elements.
Walk for AIDS
ACON, Bobby Goldsmith Foundation (BGF) and Positive Life NSW are once again hosting the Walk for AIDS on Sunday 22 November 2009. Now in its fourth year, the Walk for AIDS raises much needed funds for services for HIV positive people.
Amateur Ashes Charity Event
On Australia Day come down and watch the Amateur Ashes (the Aussies vs the English) and enjoy a BBQ, raffles, live music and lots of entertainment for the kids. All money raised will be donated to Red Kite, a Children's Cancer Charity.
Bandaged Bear Day
The Bandaged Bear Day Appeal is a wonderful event and chance to support The Children's Hospital at Westmead by purchasing Bandaged Bear Day merchandise throughout the month of March.
Sydney Charity Organisations
CanTeen
CanTeen - The Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer, is the national support organisation for young people (aged 12-24) living with cancer.
Caritas Australia
The Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development. Caritas Australia helps people help themselves - regardless of race, religion or political beliefs.
Charity Greeting Cards
Charity Greeting Cards is a wholesale publisher of Greetings Cards specifically to Australian Charities. We assist our Charity clients by marketing and promoting the Christmas Cards that we have manufactured for them through this website.
Legacy
Legacy is a uniquely Australian organisation, established in 1923 by ex-servicemen dedicated to the task of caring for the widows and dependants of their comrades.
Lifeline Sydney
Lifeline Sydney provides a 24 hour crisis telephone counselling service. The service is delivered by volunteers who are skilled and equipped to assist those who call by providing counselling support and referral options.
Make-A-Wish Australia
Make-A-Wish Australia has been granting wishes to children and young people since 1985. Wishes bring magic, joy and hope to these children and their families, as well as unforgettable experiences.
Oxfam Australia
Oxfam Australia is an Australian, independent, not-for-profit, secular, community-based aid and development organisation. Our vision is of a fair world in which people control their own lives, their basic rights are achieved and the environment is sustained.
OzHarvest - Rescuing Food for Sydney's Charities
OzHarvest is a Sydney-based charity that collects excess food and delivers it, free of charge, to organizations that feed disadvantaged men, women and children in our community.
Redkite
Redkite is an Australian charity that supports children, young people and their families through cancer by providing emotional guidance, financial assistance and educational services.
Save the Children
Save the Children Australia remains focused on programs that directly benefit the lives of children and their communities. Save the Children Australia's program breadth can be demonstrated by the number of programs we design and directly implement.
The Australian Charities Fund
The Australian Charities Fund is an Australian founded and led organisation established to facilitate the development of Workplace Giving programs, and associated community involvement programs, within large employer organisations.
The Benevolent Society
The Benevolent Society is an independent, secular, not-for-profit organisation with a long history of working with communities to create positive change. The Benevolent Society works with individuals and communities in metropolitan, regional and rural New South Wales and in South East Queensland.
The Leukaemia Foundation
We are dedicated to the care and cure of patients and families living with leukaemias, lymphomas, myeloma and related blood disorders.
The Shepherd Centre
The Shepherd Centre works with children who are deaf and hearing impaired to teach them to speak and communicate in the hearing world. The approach focuses on listening as the foundation for developing spoken language, through the use of hearing devices...
The Starlight Children's Foundation
Since being formed as an Australian children's charity in 1988, the Starlight Children's Foundation has brightened the lives of seriously ill and hospitalised children, and their families, by delivering innovative programs that restore fun, laughter and joy that a life-threatening illness takes away.
The Sydney Cancer Centre
The Sydney Cancer Centre is at the forefront of cancer treatment and research in Australia. Cancer Information and Support.
The Sydney Kids Committee
The Sydney Kids Committee is a volunteer group dedicated to supporting the Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick.
UNICEF
UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund, the world's leading advocate for children. UNICEF is non-political and works in over 150 countries to make a lasting difference to the lives of women and children around the world, and advocates for the health of Indigenous children in Central Australia.
Wesley Mission
Wesley Mission has a real mission - to minister to a community with real needs. Our community includes the vulnerable and marginalised. It includes the lonely, hurt and fragile, the homeless, mentally ill, aged, disabled, unemployed.
World Vision
World Vision is Australia's largest overseas aid and humanitarian organisation. As well as providing relief in emergency situations, we work on long-term development projects with local communities to address the causes of poverty and help them become self-sufficient.
WWF-Australia
WWF-Australia is part of the WWF International Network, the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organisation. It has close to five million supporters and a global network active in more than 100 countries.
Youth Off The Streets
Youth Off The Streets is a community organisation supporting homeless and drug addicted young Australians as they work to turn their lives around. It is our goal that these young people will leave our care drug free, with a high school education.
Contributing to any of the above organisations is a great way to make a difference to individuals, families and society at large.
If you know of or are involved with a charitable organisation, or are organising an upcoming charitable event, you can advertise it with OnlySydney via the link free of charge.
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