Our charity partner @metalbird have created a beautiful tribute to kids with brain cancer this Go Grey in May. The RCD Brainy Plant Trellis will not only help your plants grow, but help grow hope, with 50% of sales coming to our Foundation. Beautify your garden and donate to a fantastic cause! Purchase directly from Metalbird HERE Material: 3mm Corten steel designed to age beautifully and rust over time Size: 29cm x 20cm The post RCD Foundation x Metalbird – Go Grey May appeared first on RCD Foundation ..read more

The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation is proud to sponsor the Ependymoma Science Meeting ‘EpCam’ and works closely with Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Children’s Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence, who are putting together this event. The EpCam meeting brings together a group of world leading brain tumour researchers to tackle the more prescient issues and discuss the biological challenges of ependymoma. The Centre is hosting the second Ependymoma Science meeting in Cambridge, UK this June 2023, following the success of last years meeting. The meeting is led by Professor Richard Gilbertson and Dr ..read more

20 April, 2023 Today marks 10 years since Connor physically left us. 10 years-sigh. It feels like 10 minutes and 1000 years and everything in between. In many ways part of me died along with Connor that fateful day and in many, many profound ways my life took on its greatest meaning with Connor fiercely alive inside of me.  I promised Connor, while holding his hand as he took his last breathes on this earth, that I would celebrate and honour him every single day for the rest of my life. That has been the easiest promise I have ever made. So many thoughts and mixed emotions swirl around ..read more

What an un-fore-gettable day! Thank you to all of our golfers, volunteers, and sponsors for making our inaugural Connor’s Golf Classic a truly spectacular event. We are still tallying the funds, but so far we are looking at over $80,000 raised for young people with brain cancer. What an awesome effort! A very special thanks to Victoria Golf Club for hosting us, going above and beyond to make sure the day ran smoothly. Congratulations to our winning team: TLS Transport- Paul Vawdrey, Corey McKernan, Darren Goss and Jared Rivers, with a combined stableford score of 111. During dinner, our Legacy ..read more

The Robert Connor Dawes Foundation are proud to announce that we are co-funding South Australia’s first biobank. Dubbed ‘Brain Turbo SA’, the biobank is being spearheaded by renowned brain cancer specialist and McClurg Brain Cancer Fellow at South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), Professor Jordan Hansford and is being used to study child brain tumours into the future. “We’re going to learn about survivorship, we’re going to learn about diseases and we’re going to learn how to continually improve patient care,” Prof Hansford said. “The biobank will ultimately give us t ..read more

16 year old Adam is the first patient in the world to trial a new brain cancer treatment. This world-first cancer treatment trial, tackling a rare and debilitating paediatric brain tumour commenced at the Perth Children’s Hospital. Adam will be joined by more than 30 other children across the world to trial a treatment for Adamantinomatous Craniopharyngioma (ACP) over the next two years. The new study, “CONNECT1905” is co-funded by the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation and Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer Foundation The new study, “CONNECT1905”, developed by the international clinical trials ..read more

A Very Merry Christmas from all of us at the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation!    The post Liz’s Christmas Message appeared first on RCD Foundation ..read more

We enjoyed Community Day at Sandringham Little Athletics on Saturday.  It was great to have our major partner Coles and their ambassador, 2 x World Champion and Olympic Bronze medalist, Kelsey-Lee Barber there alongside us. We raised over $3000. Thank you to our awesome group of volunteers from Firbank Grammar for helping us out on the day.     The post Sandringham Little Aths Community Day appeared first on RCD Foundation ..read more

What a weekend! Thank you to the 25+ Team RCD athletes used their brawn for the brain participating in the Noosa Triathlon. The participants raised over $30,000 for paediatric brain cancer research, care, and development projects. THANK YOU!   Check out the rest of our photos on Facebook HERE The post 2023 Noosa Tri appeared first on RCD Foundation ..read more

We had the great honour of accepting a massive $419,431 cheque from Coles, raised last month during the BrainHeart Campaign. The campaign ran in all 220 Victorian Coles stores, and online from August 31-September 20, 2022. Through the sale of Sock it to Brain Cancer socks, $2 BrainHeart cards, and select Coles cookies, the funds were raised thanks to the support of dedicated staff, and big-hearted shoppers. Coles Local Victorian stores also sold speciality Cremorne Bakery cookies and T.House products, along with the cards and socks. The Altona Meadows location was the top  fundraising st ..read more