Be Bold, Go Gold for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Thursday 03 September 2026

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, giving you an opportunity to show your support for children and families facing cancer.

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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time to show support to children and families facing cancer.

This year, the NRF invites you to help shine a light on childhood brain cancer, the leading cause of death from cancer in Australian children.

Your support can help researchers work towards better treatments, outcomes and, ulitamtely, a future where more childcare get the chance to grow up.


How will you Go Gold?

There are plenty of ways to get involved this September:

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WEAR GOLD

Show your support wherever you go with our range of gold merchandise.

  1. NRF Earrings
  2. Awareness Badge
  3. Brain Socks

DONATE

Your donation can help support vital research into childhood brain cancer.

Every contribution helps researchers investigate new treatments, understand childhood brain cancers and work towards better outcomes for children and their families.

DONATE HERE

FUNDRAISE

Take action by hosting your own fundraising event!

Whether you organise a morning tea, workpalce challenge or school dress up day, your fundraiser can help raise awareness and important funds.

START FUNDRAISING

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Research Highlights

Your support can help build on this important work.

NRF is supporting research projects including:

  1. Professor Quenten Schwartz
    $20,000 towards paediatric brain tumour co-funding for a Federal Government grant
    Five-year commitment: $100,000
  2. Dr Kim Wark
    $100,000 towards the Paediatric Brain Tumour National RCD Foundation Data Project

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YOUR SUPPORT CAN HELP CHANGE WHAT COMES NEXT

Childhood brain cancer changes lives in an instant.

But research can change what happens next.

When you donate or fundraise, you help give researchers the resources they need to keep searching for better treatments and better outcomes for children with brain cancer.

Your support today could help bring us one step closer to a future where more children survive and go on to grow up.

DONATE TODAY

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