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As a valued partner and supporter of Ronald McDonald House Charities, your support for the ‘Queensland Ride For Sick Kids’ will help ensure that we can provide assistance to those that need it most, seriously ill children and their families.
Any support that you or your company can give to make this event a success and help raise funds would be significantly appreciated. In an attempt to achieve our target of $100,000 for the Queensland Houses, we are aiming to keep our costs at a minimum. To this end, financial donations (tax deductible receipts can be provided), prizes, auction items, promotional giveaways, or contra support in the form of advertising, printing, will enable us to raise maximum funds that will directly benefit the charity.
Recognition of our supporters will be in the way of company logos displayed on cycle gear, posters, other promotional items, and media; dependant on level of support. Your company would enjoy the exposure of 170 McDonald’s stores in Queensland by featuring on the posters in store.
Over 80,000 pens will be sold via the stores as our major fund raiser and exposure on each pen for the naming rights sponsor.
Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) supports a variety of programs that help seriously ill children to live happier, healthier lives. Ronald McDonald Houses are the major cornerstone program of RMHC and provide a ‘home away from home’ for seriously ill children and their families. They provide a comfortable and secure place for a sick child and their family to live while the child undergoes hospital treatment.
In Queensland, RMHC supports three houses neighbouring the Mater Children’s Hospital, the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Townsville Hospital. Money raised from ‘Queensland Rides for RMHC’ will also support two other
important programs run by RMHC which meet the changing needs of seriously ill children and their families – the RMHC Cord Blood Bank and the Ronald McDonald Learning Program.
The RMHC Cord Blood Bank supports the established cord blood banks around Australia that collect blood from umbilical cords while the Ronald McDonald Learning Program helps children ‘catch up’ with missed schooling while recovering from serious illness.
Introduced to Queensland in 2004, the Learning Program offers a unique range of assessments, including psychometric, academic, speech pathology and occupational therapy to determine the learning strengths and needs of each child as well as tuition and therapy for up to four school terms.
RMHC needs everyone’s support to continue to raise funds for the ongoing development and operations of all of these programs.
