GIVING DAY - 24 October 2024
What is Giving Day?
Giving Day is an exciting 12-hour fundraising event where we ask our amazing local community to help raise funds to support patients, visitors, staff and projects across Townsville Hospital and Health Service facilities.
Locals Supporting Locals
Brighter Lives is the official charity of the Townsville Hospital and Health Service and are 100% local with funds raised supporting your local hospitals in North Queensland, with our region covering Townsville & Magnetic Island, Ingham, Palm Island, Burdekin, Charters Towers, Hughenden, Richmond, and Cardwell.
As a local, chances are that you or a loved one has been a patient at a Townsville Hospital and Health Service facility. With 100% of funds staying in North Queensland, Giving Day is your chance to give back to our local health service to help provide world-class equipment, training, research and facilities.
Brighter Lives funds equipment to help keep care local and projects to make our hospital services brighter and more comfortable. With your help, we ensure that north Queenslanders receive the best healthcare right here in the north. Without even knowing it, you've probably benefited from something fundraised by Brighter Lives!
Get your business involved
Be part of this important day of giving.
We are asking for the help of our amazing local businesses.
Businesses of all sizes from across our region can play a vital role in supporting Giving Day by hosting fundraising events, donating directly, donating via sales or providing in-kind contributions like goods or services.
If you own a business or know someone who does, we would love to hear from you.
Businesses will be supported as well as receive promotion for their involvement.
Contact us to learn more or sign up
As Brighter Lives celebrates our 35th birthday in 2024, we need your help to make this our biggest Giving Day ever!
Register your interest below or contact Stephanie Naunton, CEO of Brighter Lives to have a chat - 4433 7450.
Giving Day Enquiry
Where do my donations help?
Donations help across north Queensland to help fund equipment and projects in Townsville Hospital and Health Service.
Here are some of the recently funded projects your donations have helped support:
FUNDED - New equipment for Magnetic Island Health Service
7 May 2024
Thanks to your donations, a tonometer and bladder scanner will now be on-site at Magnetic Island, meaning faster diagnosis and reducing the need to transfer patients to Townsville. The bladder scanner will mean Magnetic Island Health Service can continue to provide high-quality health care and catheter care to residents of the island. The tonometer helps to provide a thorough eye assessment at the clinic, meaning that patients with eye injuries can often stay close to home in their own community...
FUNDED - Eye saving equipment for Ingham Hospital
15 April 2024
Thanks to tireless fundraising by locals, the Ingham Hospital now has its very own tonometer. Helen Shaw, Allied Health Assistant at Ingham Hospital has been the team leader for the fundraising effort, raising funds for local North Queensland charity, Brighter Lives. Helen said they are so grateful for the community support, adding, “we aimed to raise funds for items that can be used right here in Ingham, keeping care close to home.” A tonometer helps measure the pressure inside your...
FUNDED - Beautiful outdoor courtyard for patients with cancer
28 May 2024
Generous community donations have helped Brighter Lives fund the refurbishment of an isolation courtyard for cancer patients at Townsville University Hospital. The courtyard is used by patients who require isolation for up to weeks at a time during their treatment, giving them a beautiful outdoor space to enjoy or simply view if they are not well enough to use it. The refurbishment of the courtyard includes new flooring, a shade cover, plants, and furniture, costing $54,000. “Thanks ...
FUNDED - New laser for Townsville thanks to your donations
1 August 2024
Generous donors have helped Brighter Lives fund a new burns laser to treat North Queensland children who have experienced burn injuries. The local hospital foundation laser’s fundraiser, also known as the Laser Raiser, has fundraised $173,000 to purchase a Cutera V+ laser to treat North Queensland children. Every year, around 200 children from across North Queensland present to the paediatric burns service at Townsville University Hospital. This service is the only one of its kind north of...
