Hip Hip Hooray! Radio Lollipop Gold Coast celebrated their 10th birthday with a bang, spreading the cheer with week-long festivities that had the pediatric nurses dressing up in costumes to match the daily themes. While the actual date of their anniversary was 28 July, Special Guest Coordinator Lauren Proctor organised special events for each Lollipop shift in the week.

On Monday, the Radio Lollipop saw the return of Gold Coast singer/performer Jacob Lee, who dazzled kids with favourite tunes.

The Terrific Tuesday team welcomed Party Palz, who arrived in a gigantic Minion costume to the kids’ delight.

The expert ghost-catching Ghostbuster (Ben Andrews aka. ECT02) joined the Wacky Wednesday crew to give even the shyest child the power to run those monsters out of town.

On Thursday, the Gold Coast’s official birthday, Radio Lollipop was taken over by local radio station Hot Tomato, with breakfast hosts Flan, Emily Jade and Christo.

And finally the Super Saturday team, patiently waiting their turn, closed out the birthday celebrations with party bags and Radio Lollipop temporary tattoos.

It was a week of birthday celebrations unparalleled by any other. Even the nursing staff got involved, joining our volunteers in matching costumes all week. All children who stayed in hospital this week definitely received a slice of our celebrations.

A very special thank you goes to the hospital executives and nursing staff for their amazing support for our Gold Coast volunteers – without their commitment to Radio Lollipop’s cause, our birthday week could not have been as big as it was!