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    Supported by our community: Oncology School Visit Program

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    In late-2018, a group of year 11 students at Pembroke School shaved their heads to raise $21,000 for the Michael Rice Centre in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, where their school mate was receiving...

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    Celebrating 10 years of Arts in Health

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    This year the WCH Foundation is thrilled to be celebrating 10 years of our Arts in Health program. Over the past decade the program has continually grown and now impacts over 83,000 patients each...

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    Tales of years gone by in the Hospital

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    When Doris Henderson (née Findlay) was training to be a nurse at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital in 1968 there was no university course, most of the trainees were 16 years old and they were...

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    A new year to remember at the Beach House

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    Throughout summer the WCH Foundation ‘Laklinyeri’ Beach House has been fully booked, with a family holidaying at the extraordinary home each week. The Booby family welcomed the start of the new decade at the...

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    Eloise Fleming: she’s got a fighting spirit!

    Posted: February 4, 2020

    “Eloise is doing fantastic, she is crawling all over the place and is getting into mischief like all toddlers do,” Nicole Fleming says of her adorable daughter. Nicole and her husband Shannon shared the...

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    News from the WCH Foundation Board

    Posted: January 31, 2020

    After nearly 20 years of dedicated service, Nicholas Begakis AO has announced his resignation as the Chair of the Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation Board effective 30 June 2020. We are extraordinarily grateful to...

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    Records broken at Golden Angels High Tea

    Posted: January 30, 2020

    Amazing records were broken at the Golden Angels fourth High Tea on Sunday 10 November 2019. The first record to fall was the attendance figure with close to 1000 people at the event. The...

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    Donating to the WCH Foundation this Christmas

    Posted: November 26, 2019

    The festive season is well upon us and at this time of year the wonderful South Australian community are incredibly generous in their donation of presents to children in the Women’s and Children’s Hospital....

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    Pop-up exhibition: The good, the beautiful and the true

    Posted: November 25, 2019

    Whilst learning about students’ experiences at the Hospital School, Cabra Year 10 Fashion Design class was given the brief to create a textile design to be printed and sewn into scarves. These scarves are...

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    The meaning of ‘Laklinyeri’

    Posted: October 14, 2019

    Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation CEO Jane Scotcher shares the journey of the WCH Foundation Beach House’s Aboriginal name – Laklinyeri (Lak-in-yeri). As part of the Beach House project the Foundation wanted to build...

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