To our Valued Supporters, 

Steven Walter Children’s Cancer Foundation has been working hard in recent weeks to develop contingency plans for the Honda Snowy Ride to ensure that the event can still take place.

Despite what the daily case numbers and press conferences tell us about the COVID-19 situation, there are still daily battles being fought by countless kids and families facing cancer. Unfortunately, the upheaval caused by a cancer diagnosis is made infinitely more difficult at this time.

Our mission is still as clear as it ever was – to fundraise to find a cure for childhood cancer.

The exciting news we would like to bring to you all today is that in conjunction with our major supporters, we have made the decision to move the final Honda Snowy Ride to Saturday 2^nd April 2022.

While we’ll still be bound by whatever Government restrictions are in place at that time, we are working to ensure that we can all celebrate and endeavour to make the final Honda Snowy Ride an extra special one.

We send a huge thank you to everyone who has entered so far and for your unwavering support, your entries will carry forward to April 2022. To anyone who is unsure about whether to enter, we want to take this opportunity to remind you that 100% of the $60 registration fee goes straight to research to find a cure for childhood cancer, so your entry will make a difference in the lives of children with cancer, and we encourage all riders to enter online.

Your $60 registration fee also guarantees you an entry in the draw and a chance to win the Honda CMX1100, thanks to our Platinum Partner Honda MPE, with the winner to be drawn on Saturday 2nd April 2022. Please click here to go straight to the registration page and thank you again for your support.

Like so many other worthy charities, our ability to fundraise over the past two years has been significantly impacted by COVID-19, however we are determined to continue to do what we can to support children and families faced with cancer.

Thank you all for the support and love you continue to show, and for the messages received, we hope that our Snowy Ride and SWCCF extended families are staying safe and well, and we look forward to seeing you all again soon.

Warm Regards

Sue Walter, AM
Executive Director
Steven Walter Children’s Cancer Foundation

• Professor Glenn Marshall recognised with a five-year, Leadership 2 National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant of $900,000
• Hyundai Help for Kids partnership with Steven Walter Children’s Cancer Foundation fund SIOPEN Neuroblastoma Clinical Trials in Australia and New Zealand

Professor Glenn Marshall doesn’t want you to think about him and the long nights worrying over the kids he’s trying to save from the cruel threat of cancer, or the even longer days he spends at the bedside or laboratory bench hoping for positive results about one of his young patients. He doesn’t want you to think about him, because he’s not the story. Childhood cancer, and fighting it, is the only story he wants to talk about.

What keeps Professor Marshall going through the hours, days, weeks and months is not our thoughts, well-wishes or admiration – which is the overwhelming emotion you feel when speaking to him. It is his patients – the children – who find a way to laugh and smile, despite the terrible ordeals they are enduring.

“Just seeing the kids every day is what keeps me going, meeting the families and just trying to help them,” he says, in his quiet, humble way. “There’s still so much work to do. One in six kids with cancer are still dying, and that’s too many. That’s what gets me out of bed every day. I want every single kid to make it.”

When Professor Marshall, the Head of Translational Research and Molecular Carcinogenesis at the Children’s Cancer Institute (CCI), says that, it doesn’t sound like just a mission statement. It’s spoken with the deep, personal passion of someone who has seen children lost to cancer, grieved with their families and come away determined to do more.

He doesn’t do this work alone, of course, and for several years he’s been receiving financial assistance from our Hyundai Help for Kids partnership with Steven Walter Children’s Cancer Foundation which has a very similar mantra to Professor Marshall – “improving outcomes for children with cancer through targeted treatments and prevention.”

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Thank you to everyone who entered our photo competition for the month of August. 

You can check out all of the fantastic photos entered here.