Locally based Pancare fundraising group tops $20,000 this year!

Support4Pancare is a Victoria based fundraising group, with every cent raised going to the not-for-profit charity: Pancare Foundation. Their recent Cup Day fundraiser sausage sizzles brought in $2,975.35, taking the total for the year to over $20,000!

Having, sadly, lost friends to liver/pancreatic cancer, founding members were inspired to take action, starting the group to raise awareness and funds, both for research as well as to and care for people diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer.

The group has grown over the last two years and is run by an equal committee of seven with an expanding base of hard-working volunteers.

Fundraising activities this year have included a Trivia Night, organised by the group, as well as support given for ‘Walk for Hope’, Pancare Foundation’s largest annual fundraising community event, held back in April, where the Support4Pancare group served over 700 meals to the hungry participants, adding to the total of almost $158,000 raised at the event by Pancare Foundations.

In addition to this Support4Pancare will run 18 Bunnings sausage sizzle fundraisers in 2019.

The committee acknowledges the effort and time of the volunteers that support the fundraising activities: “Volunteers are an extremely important part of this organisation and without their support we would not reach our fundraising goals.”

The volunteer base is growing as awareness increases, in particular by way of the sausage sizzle events; “We have a lot of fun”, shares a committee member, and that draws people in to find out more.

Follow the Support4Pancare Facebook page to find out more.

Committee members and volunteers serve hungry shoppers at the fundraising sausage sizzles. This year the group will participate in 18 in total!

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rates of all the major cancers with less than 10% of patients reaching the 5-year survival mark. Survival rates for liver and pancreatic cancer, in particular, have not changed significantly in nearly 40 years. Research is needed to uncover effective treatments and surgeries for the disease.