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Gold Coast and Brisbane runners raise over $4000 in the recent marathon

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It wasn’t for the glory and it certainly wasn’t to break record time; Gold Coast and Brisbane volunteers joined together to conquer the 5.7km walk in the Gold Coast Airport Marathon, raising funds and awareness for Radio Lollipop along the way.

The team were hard to miss when they hit the tracks donned in colourful tutus, bubble wands and sparkling foil balloons. They certainly made a huge impact; fellow runners photographed selfies with our daring group while onlooking crowds cheered and whistled from the sidelines.

With the volunteers taking to their social media pages, the team of 12 successfully raised a total of $4208.70.

The money will go towards prizes, craft essentials and games to ensure Radio Lollipop continues to deliver the best bedside service to sick children in hospital.

Girlfriends Night Out raises over $28,000 for Radio Lollipop Western Australia

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The 2015 Radio Lollipop Girlfriends Night Out to Celebrate Friendship raised over $28,000 for Radio Lollipop in Western Australia. 400 ladies joined together to celebrate their friendships and raise money for Radio Lollipop in Western Australia.

Event organisers Erin Jackson and Kirbee Neilsen said this annual event is becoming the social event for Bunbury ladies. This year tickets sold out in under 15 minutes.

Radio Lollipop Director Sandra Ursino said that the support from the Bunbury Business Community was overwhelming in making donations of gifts and gift vouchers to go towards raffles and lucky dip prizes.

Erin Jackson said this is the third year the event has been run as a fundraiser for Radio Lollipop and so far has raised almost $60,000 over 3 years.

Picture: (L – R) Kirbee Neilsen, Erin Jackson, Sandra Ursino and MC Shauna Willis.

Radio Lollipop Monash Volunteers talking Radio Lollipop…

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Radio Lollipop at Monash Children’s Hospital in Melbourne have recently produced a short video to showcase the great work our volunteers are doing since we opened our doors at Monash Children’s Hospital in November 2013.

In addition to our Monday night service, with our recent intake of new volunteers we opened our Saturday morning service to the great delight of the children, their parents and siblings and the hospital staff.

Thank you to Rooftop Film Co for donating your time to Radio Lollipop to produce this for us.

http://vimeo.com/127809886

Radio Lollipop Gold Coast wins Grill’d stores’ Local Matters initiative

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Radio Lollipop Gold Coast has received amazing support from two Grill’d store locations, at Robina Town Shopping Centre and Harbour Town in Biggera Waters, Gold Coast.

Radio Lollipop was one of the entrants in the Grill’d “Local Matters” initiative, where customers are given a token to nominate the charity they’d like to see receive the top donation of $300 at the end of each month. Second and third place each receive a $100 donation. With the help of the local community, Radio Lollipop Gold Coast were voted into first place at Robina Town Shopping Centre, while placing a close second at the Harbour Town store.

 

Both Grill’d stores have shown extraordinary generosity, with the Robina location donating boxes of colouring-in pencils to put in Radio Lollipop welcome packs, and Harbour Town offering their help by donating onions for the fundraising Bunning’s BBQs.

Combined with the prize money, the Gold Coast team will now have more to put towards creating a WOW-experience for every child admitted into hospital.