Starlight Children's Foundation Australia

🙏 We wanted to offer a heartfelt thank you to our STRYDE4 Day fundraisers. STRYDE4 Day offers corporate organisations opportunities to empower team members to achieve health and well-being goals while supporting causes that are important to them. ⭐ Thank you to the fundraisers who chose Starlight as their charity of choice for the STRYDE4 Day, walking 10km or 21km while undertaking a series of challenges along the way! 🤩 By fundraising for Starlight, you are helping us brighten the lives of seriously ill children and their families when they need it most. 🤝Together, you have raised enough to bring joy to over 590 seriously ill children in hospital. We can't wait for the next STRYDE4 event! Rania B. Kristy Lowther Kirsty Beed Naomi Bright Riette Filmer Geoff Coombes OAM

Meet Amy Blomberg, Starlight’s Creative Services Manager 👋⭐ Amy is responsible for leading Starlight’s creative services team and outputs including graphic design, video & copy 🤩 Fun fact: Amy started at Starlight as a Livewire Facilitator! 🤝 When we ask Amy’s team members about her impact at Starlight, they light up, sharing how her superpower is being a positive energizer! 🤩 She brings fun, good vibes, and creative flair, all while shining brightly for sick kids in everything she does. ✨ When asking Amy why she loves working at Starlight, she said: “I have such a solid work-life balance, so much leadership support, great people to work with who I genuinely admire and look up to, and I contribute to a purpose that makes a real difference in the lives of sick kids and their families. That to me is MORE than what I could hope for out of a job.”

💜💛 When serious illness takes over, Starlight gives their childhood back. Starlight is powered by the support of our community. We call our monthly donors ‘Shining Stars’ because their ongoing support is vital to help brighten the lives of seriously ill children across the country. 🙏 From just $1 a day, you can make a lasting impact on sick kids like Lexi.

🎁🧸9 Starlight children were enlisted to become the 2024 Amazon Playmakers, given the important task of being the official toy testers for Amazon’s Top 100 Toys List. ⭐🎄 With a little help from Hi-5’s Charli Robinson, our Playmakers put the toys to the test to make holiday shopping easier… and had plenty of fun while they were at it (because fun is serious business). You can check out the Top 100 Toys List now (Link in the comments) ⬇️ 🙏 Thank you Amazon for giving sick kids this opportunity full of fun & positive distraction. Louise Baxter Kirsty Beed Kristy Lowther Kate Slaytor Taylia Collis 🤩

Today is Children’s Day 🌈🤩 At Starlight, we know happiness matters to seriously ill children. 🙏 You can help bring happiness to these children by donating. If you donate today, your donation will be matched by our generous partners at Qudos Bank Arena… doubling your impact! ⭐ Let's make the hospital a happier place together for sick kids like Mia Rose. 💜💛 Mia Rose, just two months old, was diagnosed with a rare form of childhood cancer affecting both her eyes. She has endured over 20 gruelling rounds of treatment, including invasive laser treatment. Fortunately, through it all, Captain Starlight has been by her side every step of the way, providing essential moments of joy and positive distraction.

💛💜 If Lexi’s parents Renee and Evan had the opportunity to speak directly to those who support Starlight, they'd like to share this heartfelt message; 'It's difficult to realise how important donations really are until you go through it and see it for yourselves. The fact there is a foundation set up with a single purpose of putting a smile on kids' faces is the most heart-warming thing ever - and seeing that smile on your own child's face in times of high stress and worry often puts a smile on your own face too! That has to be good, right?"

🤩 Building joy, one Lego brick at a time… ⭐ 3,564,894 Lego pieces went into this out-of-this-world Lego Starlight logo, built by Starlight supporter and fundraiser Josh. Not only did he create this masterful piece in September, but Josh also helped brighten the lives of over 81 seriously ill children as a Starlight Tour de Kids fundraiser, truly embodying what it means to #SHINE brightly. 👏 To Josh and all our Tour de Kids fundraisers, we can’t thank you enough! It’s fantastic to see this incredibly creative use of Lego… a perfect reminder that every ‘piece’ of support contributes to our mission to bring happiness to seriously ill children. the LEGO Group also supports Starlight, helping to bring fun, play, and positive distraction to sick kids across the country. 🙏✨

🙏 Right now, Mia Rose and countless other children are facing painful and scary cancer treatment. 🚀 We need your help to ensure Captain Starlight is there to bring them laughter, joy and positive distraction when they need it most. In honour of Children’s Day on October 23rd, our generous matching partner, Qudos Bank Arena, is matching donations made between now and midnight on October 23, up to the value of $25,000. 🤩 ⭐ Donate & Double your impact now. Together we can help give sick kids like Mia Rose the happy childhood they deserve with a donation to Starlight.

At Starlight, we believe in the power of positivity 🤩 For seriously ill children, happiness matters. That’s why Starlight exists. ⭐ Research shows that increased positive emotions do more than make you feel good. Positive Psychology helps enhance wellbeing, resilience and optimal functionality. 💛💜 For over 30 years we have used play, social connection and creativity to support children and young people in some of their toughest times and to positively change their healthcare experience.

🌟🎮 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 🙏✨