SCHF Virtual Giving Event
Thank you for pledging your support to give the green light to three research-led innovation projects that will give kids across Australia the best chance to live their healthiest lives. You can use the form on the right-hand side to make your tax-deductible donation
Project #1: Bringing the joy back to mealtimes for kids who are tube fed with the SUCCEED model of home-based health care.
When it's four o'clock in the morning, feeding clinics are closed, your GP isn’t available and you have a tube-fed child who is in distress, your only option is to go to Emergency. That’s where SUCCEED is changing things! Led by Dr Chris Elliot, this dedicated team of parents, medical specialists and researchers wants to create a world where children with feeding difficulties can thrive.
Project #2: Give Voice! How speech pathologists are giving vulnerable children better life chances.
It’s difficult to focus on your child’s health if you’re struggling just to survive, so Lauren Hamill has designed a new screening tool to help families at Aboriginal Health Clinics in South east Sydney access vital early intervention care. Twenty per cent of Australian four-year-olds have communication impairments, but in disadvantaged communities this can increase to 50%.Lauren is determined to make sure they don’t miss out on vital care.
Project #3: Taking the Westmead Feelings Program online to reach out to autistic kids in rural and regional Australia and beyond.
Led by Dr Michelle Wong, the award-winning Westmead Feelings Program is the world’s first evidence-based mental health program designed for autistic children with cognitive disability. At present it can only be delivered by trained facilitators in a clinical setting. The solution? Digitisation of the existing program to offer new training modules for parents to use at home with their children, translated into multiple languages.
Frequently asked questions
How does my donation help?
Providing care, treatment and world-class innovations for sick kids is challenging, complex and expensive.
Your donation to the SCHF Virtual Giving Event will go to the frontline to ensure every moment is the best it can be for sick kids; by funding cutting-edge research, world-class clinical care and patient experience programs.
Your generous donation today could make a difference to a sick child that could last a lifetime.
Is my donation tax-deductible?
Yes! All donations over $2 are tax-deductible.
A big thank you to our Supporters
The real heroes who are kindly helping us achieve our goal

$100
Stella Li

$313
Rob Irving

$600
Wayne Mo
Please allocate across all three projects

$600
Mee-mee Lee
Donation for Taking the Westmead Feelings Program

$515
Anonymous

$500
Julie Mcdonald
My registered email was julie.mcdonald@thefundingnetwork.com.au in case you can't find me

$104
Daniela Ierardo
Autism & Mental Health

$157
Daniela Ierardo
SUCEED

$1.52k
Nicola Stokes

$565
Angela Hinchley

$313
Laura Doig
Lauren’s project

$1.82k
Timothy Monckton

$250
Geoffrey Wong
For Dr. Michelle Wong - Autism and Mental Health

$50
Marina Power
SUCCEED

$313
Janelle Varlow
Please add this donation to the Give Voice project. Thanks you

$7.5k
Heather And Bill Webster
$5000 Succeed $2500 Give Voice

$104
Elizabeth Dichiara
I would like my donation to support SUCCEED

$100
Renee Jasser
SUCCEED

$1.02k
Tim Whybourne

$209
Tony Ierardo

$515
Irene Tadic

$100
Belinda De Lemos
Succeed !!!!! What a Wonderful cause

$209
Ian Haigh

$313
Emily Carr
Project #3

$765
Maree Whybourne

$1.52k
Grace Ciaschetti

$100
Vinita Bansal

$104
Kristen Lark

$157
Amanda Craze
Give voice!

$100
Christina Butler

$60
Anonymous
$60 - SUCCEED

$465
Dominic Monckton

$100
Karen Height
The Feelings Program Dr Michelle Wong

$1.02k
Yvonne Stewart
Please allocate as follows: SUCCEED $300 on behalf of Stewart siblings Autism & Mental Health $200 on behalf of Stewart siblings GIVE VOICE $200 on behalf of David Tester GIVE VOICE $300 on behalf of Beryl Jackson

$515
Meredith Paynter
Please allocate my donation to Project 3 - Autism and Feelings Program

$30
Rose Whelan
Tube feeding

$313
Thomas Ragg
Project #3 - Autism & Mental Health

$261
Linsey Houston
Give Voice

$261
Linsey Houston
Succeed

$300
David Dossetor
For project #3: Autism and Mental Health

$200
Gerry & Barbara Woolf

$500
Anthony Ierardo

$104
Lai Fun Lee
For Dr Michelle Wong and team - Feelings Program for Autism

$1,000
David Dossetor
For project #3: Autism and Mental Health

$200
Caroline Ongleo-calub

$1.5k
Nadia Keogh

$313
Les White

$313
Tanya Sarina
Please note this is for the pledge made by Tanya Sarina

$100
Katrina Topfer
Give Voice

$415
Colin Allen

$209
Kathy Civardi
Project 3 - Westmead Feelings Program

$52
Donation is for Project 3