For the ones who help us bloom
Your donation ensures no one walks their cancer journey alone. It helps deliver personalised, local care so Sunshine Coast families have the support they need in life’s hardest moments.
This Mother’s Day, you can honour someone who has helped you bloom, whether it’s a mum, partner, relative or friend, and turn that gratitude into meaningful support for others.
Because cancer doesn’t just affect one person. It touches families, relationships and everyday life. Many people take on caring roles without recognition, offering comfort, stability and love when it’s needed most.
Funds raised will directly support Bloomhill’s nursing team in Buderim, helping deliver more personalised, local cancer care for Sunshine Coast families. By keeping care close to home, Bloomhill ensures individuals and their loved ones feel supported, connected, and better equipped to navigate diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
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In the first 6-12 months after a cancer diagnosis most clients need to undergo extensive cancer treatments.
Some will need to have surgery, most will have some form of chemotherapy and many require follow-up radiotherapy, medication and rehabilitation activities. Our nurses are highly trained in oncology and are central in developing the right individualised care plans for our clients.
Many of our clients are facing financial hardship and often need immediate support in many different practical ways.
When you leave a gift you are helping us provide practical support to clients, carers and children facing extreme financial hardship
When YOU leave a gift
- YOU are helping to support around nine new clients touched by cancer each week. It costs an average $1,454 for Bloomhill to support a client for one year. That’s roughly $125 each month.
- YOU are helping us expand for the future and meet the increased demand and costs for our nurse-led and client-centred model of care.
- YOU are helping us attract and retain highly qualified and compassionate nurses and therapists to meet ever-increasing demand for our services.
'My friends were all going to uni but I was chillin' in a chemo ward': Shelly's Story
Imagine you're 20 years old, fit and healthy. You go to your GP for the 10th time to find out why your cold won't go away, and after several tests and an X-ray are told you have a disease you've never heard of: Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
You're uneasy because the doctor looks worried, but you don't know what Hodgkin's lymphoma is. After the appointment, you Google it.
“Oh f*#k. That’s cancer.” Shelly Rankin is now 21 and cancer free. She was diagnosed almost exactly a year ago, at Easter 2021.
“I just felt numb,” she says. “I wasn’t even upset. I was just like, ‘oh’.”
A week after the diagnosis, Shelly was rushed to hospital because she couldn’t breathe. There was nearly 1.5 litres of fluid in her lung and they had to be painfully, surgically drained.
Six rounds of chemotherapy and six months later, Shelly’s treatments had been successful, the tumour was gone and she was in remission. Blood tests and other scans have shown no evidence of cancer. She has six-monthly check-ups and monitors for symptoms, but as far as she knows is cancer free.
About Our Charity
We are a community-based organisation and receive no ongoing government funding.
Almost 100% of our funding comes from our entrepreneurial endeavours and community donations, which allows us to provide dedicated care services to those touched by cancer.
Over the past year, we have supported more than 1,400 people and provide more than 7,120 occasions of nursing and allied health care and wellness activities at our centre in Buderim.
