Fundraising

Message from Southern Health’s Chief Executive

All members of the community have a stake in ensuring the best health care is available when they may need it, and the best services is a partnership where we all contribute together.

Fundraising and donations enable Southern Health to buy the additional equipment, improve facilities and environments and conduct research to further benefit those who rely on us when they need our help.

The extra support we can receive helps us ensure that the best possible care we can provide will be there when you need it. Our ability to consistently offer our unique comprehensive services and facilities is enhanced by the generosity of patients (past and present), individual donors, community groups and corporate supporters.

Souther Health’s Fundraising Department, based at Monash Medical Centre Clayton, is there to help you contribute to your health service, including general donations, and donations relating to equipment, corporate support, events and bequests. Donations of $2 or more to Southern Health are fully tax deductible.

For further information on how you may like to support your health service, please contact 9594 7818 or email Amanda.Georgiou@southernhealth.org.au .

These improvements may include:

There are many ways you can demonstrate your support of Southern Health. These include:

For further information on how you may be able to support Southern Health, please contact our Fundraising Coordinator, Amanda Georgiou on 03 9594 7818 or e-mail: Amanda.Georgiou@southernhealth.org.au

By supporting a member of Southern Health in your Will you will be helping improve your community’s health and provide a legacy which will have a positive and lasting impact on millions of people.

Types of Bequests

Your solicitor or trustee company can give you more information, but in general there are three major types of bequests.

Specific Bequests are gifts of particular articles of property, such as houses or land, shares, cars, furniture, jewellery, books, etc. given to a particular person or organisation.

General Bequests are usually sums of money or percentages of the value of your estate given to persons or organisations.

Residual Bequests are what is remaining of your estate after the specific and general bequests have been distributed. For example, you may leave residual bequests to your family, friends, or an organisation such as a registered charity. In your Will you can nominate how this is to be divided.

Leaving a Bequest to a Southern Health Service / facility.

When preparing your Will, your immediate family should always be the first ones you consider when dividing up your estate.

However, you may also like to consider a bequest to one of Southern Health’s facilities, enabling us to improve and expand upon the health services we provide to the millions of patients that rely on us each year.

For some people, giving through their estate is the only time they will be able to give a significant gift to an organisation which has helped them throughout their lives.

The following is some suggested wording, should you wish to support one of our health care facilities.

More Information.

Further information about how best to leave a lasting legacy in your Will to Southern Health can be found in our bequest brochure “Help Us Continue to Care”. For your free copy of this booklet and our other “Wills” kit information simply e-mail us at fundraising@southernhealth.org.au or phone us on 03 9594 7818.

If you would like to discuss how you can help one of our vital public health care services through your Will, please phone Amanda Georgiou, Southern Health’s Fundraising Coordinator on 03 9594 7818.

CORPORATE SUPPORT

Southern Health, as the largest public health service in Victoria, welcomes the support of the business community.

Companies ranging from some of Australia’s largest corporations to a number of smaller local businesses, have given generously over the years to Southern Health hospitals, with both their time, and expertise.

This has enabled our hospitals - Casey Hospital, Dandenong Hospital, Kingston Centre, Monash Medical Centre - Clayton and Moorabbin, to purchase much needed medical equipment, undertake major capital redevelopments, expand their clinical and surgical services and provide better patient care to many thousands of people.

There are many ways that this support has been realised, including:

If you or your company are interested in discussing ways you might be able to help Southern Health, please contact our Fundraising Coordinator, Amanda Georgiou, on 03 9594 7818 or e-mail: Amanda.Georgiou@southernhealth.org.au

IN- MEMORIAM DONATIONS

Many people find comfort in making a gift in lieu of flowers to Hospitals, in recognition of the medical care and attention provided to someone who has recently died.

Each of Southern Health’s hospitals Monash Medical Centre – Clayton & Moorabbin, Dandenong Hospital and the Kingston Centre and the new Casey Hospital are grateful recipients of these gifts using them to purchase much needed medical equipment that one day will help save the lives of others.

Southern Health’s Fundraising Department produces a series of In-Memoriam donation envelopes which can be given to families and their chosen funeral director on request.

These envelopes are then distributed at the funeral service to those interested in supporting the family’s wishes.

Money collected at the funeral is then forwarded to Southern Health by either the family or the funeral company within days of the service.

Money is also received via the post from those who have collected an envelop at the funeral service and made a subsequent donation.

To receive a supply of In-Memoriam donation envelopes, please phone Southern Health Fundraising on 9594 7818 or e-mail us on fundraising@southernhealth.org.au.

Date	Event	Venue	Supporting	Details
September 2008
8 September 2008	Southern Health Golf Challenge	Yarra Yarra Golf Club	Southern Health	The golf day is held every year to raise much needed funds and will be supporting Monash Newborn in 2008. The event consists of a morning of golf and lunch. If you would like to join a team or know someone who would like to sponsor a team, please call Amanda Georgiou on ext 47818.
October 2008
18 October 2008	Southern Health Ball	TBC	Southern Health Staff	This event is a great opportunity for staff to come together and celebrate a year of achievements.
Oct 2008 Date TBC	Volunteer Celebrations	TBC	Southern Health Volunteers	To be held during Southern Celebrates, to acknowledge the hard work of our volunteers and auxiliary ladies who have contributed over one million hours of assistance to the organisation.
November 2008
16 November 2008	Fun Run with Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends	Puffing Billy, Emerald	Paediatric Services	The event is an initiative of the Rotary Club of Emerald Inc. and supported by Variety - The Children’s Charity. In 2007 they presented a cheque for $60,000 to be used to purchase specialist medical equipment for paediatric services across Southern Health. This is the only fun run in the world where children from 0 – 12 years run against Thomas the Tank Engine. It is not a race but at the end of each run the first girl and first boy receive a trophy. Every child that participates receives a personalised certificate and a showbag. If you would like further information please go to www.kidsfunrunwiththomas.com
December 2008
9 December 2008	Bailey’s Charitable Golf Day	Southern Golf Club, Lower Dandenong Road, Keysborough	Children’s Cancer Centre	Bailey’s Charitable Golf Day is held every year, to raise funds to support a Paediatric Registrar in the Children’s Cancer Centre at Monash Medical Centre in memory of a little boy named Bailey Tessier. If you would like to participate in the golf day or would like to make a donation please go to www.baileysday.com.au or contact Belinda Holt, Salefest, Belinda.holt@salefest.com.au or call Ph: 9576 8900.