Digging deep for the Royal Childrens Hospital Appeal

Communities around Victoria and beyond have dug deep, producing another exceptional record breaking fundraising total donation tally for The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. The final tally is:

$23,061,320

The Nagambie community can be congratulated on the massive effort to raise $20,600 toward the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.

The Good Friday Appeal relies on the support of the community to raise funds to ensure that The Royal Children's Hospital is able to continue to provide world class care to patients and their families.The hospital treats over 44,000 children in the wards and medical centre, 91,000 in Emergency and sees over 470,000 through Telehealth or as outpatients in the community each year.

Organiser of the Nagambie RCH Good Friday Appeal, Pat Maroney said, “ I’d just like to thank everyone who in any way contributed to the great total for Nagambie of $20.600. As always I ‘d like to say special thanks to the Nagambie CFA, Bailieston CFA, Wahring CFA and Wirrate CFA on their great effort of collecting on Friday.

“To Nagambie Primary School for their great effort with their raffle and to our team who counted all of the money collected in an amazing effort - Maria, Traci, Di, Fiona, Cheryl and Richard. Pat and the team are already looking towards 2024.

“So as another Good Friday Appeal comes to a close we will set our sights on seeing if we can top this amount for 2024,” ended Pat.

From tin shaking to raffles, fundraisers and auctions, regional and rural Victoria raised a remarkable $2,955,656.