We are really pleased to announce that we're taking part in Shitbox Rally 2022 Spring!! This year, all the teams are driving their shitboxes from Mackay to Darwin.
Cancer is a disease that has touched both our lives. One of our fathers has overcome leukemia and the other continues to live with prostate cancer, and one of our aunties has beaten breast cancer. They are thankfully all okay and living their lives to the fullest.
Not all of our stories have those endings. In 2019 my brother's best friend was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bowel cancer, he became very unwell very quickly and died only a few months later. His name was Alistair and he was 32 years old. He had a wife and family and friends who loved him dearly and a whole life ahead of him.
In a cruel twist of fate, two years almost to the day that I supported my brother though his devastating loss, he was doing the same for me in 2021. Cheree had been my best mate since we were in grade 9. We watched each other grow up, get married, have kids (get divorced haha) and there wasn't a single moment where I considered she wouldn't be around, even when she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the beginning of '19. As it happened, the universe had other plans and after a two and a half year battle it was time to say goodbye to her too. She left behind her soulmate and two primary school aged kids, she was only 35. Everyone who knew her feels her loss every day.
Shitbox Rally is the largest community lead fundraiser for the Cancer Council in Australia and is now in its 13th year. Part of the participation is that all teams have to raise a minimum of $5,000 but most teams raise well above this amount as you can see with the 2022 Spring rally target set at $2,500,000 plus.
These funds go to the Cancer Council and we are extremely proud to be doing our part to support such a worthy charity. The fundraising is the hard part, so any donation you can give is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading!
Big love, Shanno and Tom.
Shitbox Rally is the adventure of a lifetime challenging participants and their cars, worth no more than $1,500, on a 7 day drive across Australia to raise money for cancer research.
The rally is not a race – it’s a fun, colourful, unpredictable adventure with participants travelling at their own pace in smaller groups. Vehicles often break down but “we never leave anyone behind” and each night is spent camping beneath the stars and celebrating the day’s achievements. It all adds up to an incredible opportunity to see Australia’s vast and beautiful countryside and make lifelong friends, many brought together after experiencing cancer themselves or seeing cancer impact family and friends.
Since it’s inception the rally has been the largest fundraiser for the Cancer Council nationally.
Shitbox Rally is a dedicated fundraising event for cancer research with funds going to Cancer Council.
Cancer Council is one of the largest non-government funders of cancer research in Australia. We conduct and fund research studies across all cancers and all stages of the cancer journey.
Thanks to the community funds raised such as Shitbox Rally we can fund world-class research that reduces the impact of cancer for everyone.
$41 million over the past 13 years has been raised by Box Rallies to date, supporting ground-breaking projects such as:
These projects wouldn’t be possible without your support.
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