Toowoomba Hospital Foundation aims to raise $1m by 2025
Cancer patients will benefit from the Garden City’s generosity as the Toowoomba Hospital Foundation aims to reach a $1m in funds raised by next year.
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Darling Downs residents and businesses have dug deep into their pockets with a show of support for a regional cancer centre, as plans for it to be built alongside the new Toowoomba Hospital at Baillie Henderson progress.
On Thursday, Toowoomba Hospital Foundation announced the organisation had raised more than $300,000 in their first goal to reach $1m by 2025, with a target of reaching $10m within the next five years.
The funds are expected to go towards a $20m regional cancer centre set in Baillie Henderson as a one-stop treatment centre, with Darling Downs Health expected to match the foundation’s $10m raised.
Retired Darling Downs Health chair Mike Horan told The Chronicle in April that plans were to convert an existing Baillie Henderson building, called Penrose, into the cancer treatment centre.
On average, the Toowoomba Hospital Cancer Care Services sees 68 patients a day and services more than 120 regional localities.
“The regional cancer centre is the biggest project and fundraising campaign we’ve ever run for Darling Downs Health and just demonstrates the genuine need for a dedicated facility for our cancer patients to come to for treatment,” the foundation’s chief executive Alison Kennedy said.
The campaign was launched with special guest Henry ‘The Fonz’ Winkler in attendance in February, 2024.
To date the campaign has raised $366,805.
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