Starlight Children's Foundation Australia

🌟🎮 Game On for a Cause! 🎮🌟 At both Starlight and EB Games Australia, Fun is serious business. Through our partnership, we are on a mission to bring fun to sick kids! Every year, we gear up for EB Games Starlight Week, where the amazing community at EB Games and Zing Pop Culture—team members, customers, and suppliers—unite to paint the town in purple and yellow and ‘level up’ to help bring happiness to seriously ill children in hospital! 💜💛 This year, we raised enough funds to bring smiles and positive distractions to over 25,000 sick kids and their families. 🙌✨ Talk about a high score! A huge shoutout to everyone who joined this epic quest 🙏✨

🤩 When style meets serendipity at Starlight! Now and then, magic happens in the office! ⭐Recently, Molly McCoy from our Volunteer team and Jess Begg from our Community Fundraising team have been unintentionally ‘twinning’ with their outfits. 🌈 It’s a delightful reminder of how collaboration can extend beyond work. This playful coincidence adds some extra fun to our days and sparks conversations and connections across the team….So much so that we are seeing more unintentional matching ensembles in the Hub 👀✨ 💭 Who knew that great teamwork could start with a matching outfit? Melissa Colwell Kirsty Beed Tayla Hall Zachary Bacon Ria Oxburgh Rachel Wald Stacey Watson Claire Treadgold Claire Pritchard

Tee-riffic things are happening in WA ⛳⭐ Starlight’s inaugural WA Starlight Charity Golf Day was a real ‘hit’ amongst the community, with participants coming together to swing for the stars, raising much-needed funds to help brighten the lives of seriously ill children. ⭐ Led by Starlight Advisory Board Member Aaron Sandilands and Gecko Contracting Turf & Landscape Maintenance, teams competed on Perth’s Joondalup Resort for bragging rights, awesome prizes – but most importantly, in support of Starlight! 🙏 Raising enough funds to positively impact over 2,400 sick kids in hospital… As the first charity golf day in WA, you could say the day was ‘a hole in one’ ⛳ 🤩 Thank you to the people who powered this fantastic event! WA State Advisory Board members Steve North & Veev Group, Kyle Sutherland & Cropline Group, Robbie Gibbs & Shaw and Partners, Lee Spurr GAICD & 360 Medico Legal Presenting partner - NewGround Water Services 👏 And event partners Purely Commercials, Bella Build and Design , Geograph Saws & Mowers, Greenacres Turf Group Telstra Business WA Joondalup Resort, Safestyle, Capral Engineering, GolfBox, Prestige Honda, and photographer Callum Smith! 🙏🤩 We can’t wait for this to return again in 2025! Patricia Old Ainslie McLean Sarah Sosnowski

Starry’s on a mission to brighten the lives of seriously ill children, and nothing can dim the #SHINE ✨ The latest adventure? Starry just ran a 42.2km marathon, smashing the world record for the fastest marathon as a star in just 4 hours and 53 minutes! 🏃♂️💨 All thanks to a brave and dedicated Starlight supporter, Michael Molloy! Impressively, there were only two faceplants… but that didn’t stop Starry. 🚀Bouncing back, shiny as ever, Starry was cheered along the entire course with words of encouragement from spectators and runners alike! Starry was also supported by the official 'water waiter' - Starlight's very own Matt Geraghty ⭐👏 Most importantly, Starry raised enough funds to help bring happiness to over 150 sick kids in hospital 🙏 And it doesn’t stop there… Starry’s future is in your hands! What adventure do you want to see Starry take on next? Let us know in the comments below 👇⭐

Captain Starlight is all about the positive power of fun and laughter 🚀 Our innovative Captain Starlight program is found in every children’s hospital across Australia. Developed in partnership with leading health professionals, Captain Starlight complements the Australian healthcare system… because happiness matters to sick kids! The purpose of Captain Starlight? 💜To help make hospital fun 💛To help kids forget about being sick 💜To distract kids from the pain of treatment 💛To make kids laugh when things are tough 💜To help sick kids simply be kids

Starlight is excited to announce Benjamin Cooper as our newest Starlight Ambassador ⭐ Benjamin has been the Executive Chef at iconic dining destination Chin Chin for the past 13 years and has worked alongside some of Australia’s most celebrated chefs. Alongside the demands of his many roles in the culinary world, Benjamin has dedicated his time and effort to supporting many charity initiatives and has long supported Starlight. 👏🤩 Most notably, Benjamin has been an integral part of our Starlight Five Chefs Dinners over many years, generously sharing his time as an event chef as well as donating numerous major auction prices – which are highly sought after! “Seeing Starlight’s impact first-hand is such a motivation for me. The Starlight Express Room is such a vibrant, happy place, you almost forget you’re in the hospital. To be able to play a small part and help kids have some fun during really tough times is so rewarding” Benjamin said. Welcome to the team, Benjamin 🙏

It brings us joy to see organisations embracing the Starlight ‘Sparklers’ sessions with Team Building With Purpose 🤩 ✨ Why? ✨ At Starlight, we know happiness matters to all. This is why everything we do - both for our team and the seriously ill children we support, - centers around positive psychology. And we’re thrilled to see other teams embracing these practices and learning all about the power of positivity! These sessions are an exciting hybrid of team building and corporate volunteering which is sure to leave your team engaged… and smiling! 👏 ⬇️ If you and your team are looking for a team-building activity that is meaningful, impactful and FUN then leave a comment below, and we’ll get in touch!

Check out the ✨ shiny, newly refurbished ✨ Starlight Connection Space at Centenary Hospital for Women and Children. 🚀 The Starlight Connection Space, located in the Paediatric Playroom, is there to transform the hospital experience for patients and their families. 🤩 Inside you’ll find Captain Starlight - a superhero of fun who brings the joy and laughter seriously ill children need to get through tough times. You’ll also find quiet zones for younger children or those with sensory issues, art and creative activities, gaming experiences, a parent’s area, and upgrades to the outdoor terrace! 🙏 Thank you to the generous support of the Levi and Liangis families, Richard Crookes Construction and Starball Canberra for helping us bring this upgrade to life! #HappinessMatters #CanberraHealthServices #KidsHealing ACT Health Richard Crookes Constructions

⭐ “Without Starlight, hospital would be unbearable. Arlo gets stronger and feels better more quickly when he’s able to laugh, make jokes and dance around with the Captains. The joy Starlight brings to sick kids is invaluable" - Arlo's mum Georgia. And that's why Starlight exists... because we know #happinessmatters to seriously ill children like seven-year-old Arlo. 💜 At just five weeks old, Arlo was diagnosed with Laryngomalacia - a birth defect that results in a partial blockage of the voice box and causes breathing and feeding difficulties. 💛 Then at 18 months old, Arlo underwent surgery where doctors then discovered that Arlo also has Tracheomalacia – a windpipe disorder that causes the airways to collapse. 🚀 While the hospital has been a constant part of Arlo’s life, Captain Starlight has been there to bring a smile to Arlo’s face.

Starlight is thrilled to announce AFL player Bailey Banfield as our newest National Starlight Ambassador! 🚀⭐ Bailey made his AFL Debut for the Fremantle Dockers in 2018 and has been #shining on and off the field ever since. A true team player, Bailey is known for his positivity, resilience, and encouragement of others – which makes him the perfect fit as our latest Starlight Ambassador. 👏 Bailey has personally supported Starlight over many years as a passionate advocate through his role as a player at Fremantle, including supporting the annual Starlight Purple Haze game. 💜 He generously volunteers his personal time to meet Starlight kids and families at Perth Children’s Hospital, making a huge impact and helping to put much-needed smiles on sick kids’ faces. ✨ “A big part of the Freo culture is giving back to our community so to be able to further my involvement with Starlight as an Ambassador is such an exciting and rewarding opportunity for me,” Bailey says. 🙏 We are so thankful for Bailey’s enthusiasm and energy in helping to bring happiness to children and young people and we extend a very warm welcome to Team Starlight!