"Trent and I have been waiting a while to get our place in a Rally, and now we are go! Trent has been practicing on two wheels mainly across the outback and occasionally with an airlift out (no surprises if you know him!) and I have been driving my own shitboxes around regional Victoria with far less excitement (no surprises if you know me). Prior to that we bonded over sensible amounts of post-workplace wine at the City WIne Shop in Melbourne's CBD.
Cancer has affected us both personally, in different ways, and our families, friends and communities. We think this rally captures great ways to roll - making the best of the situation, tackling issues as a team, but also experiencing the awesome expanses of a country that we have both put some serious rubber down on, and this time for an amazing organisation with an amazing purpose.
We'd be incredibly grateful for any donation to the Cancer Council coffers - and we are keen to attract sponsors who can fly their colours on our especially faded Ford Focus, dubbed Valentino Grotti after a mutual hero!
Thanks, all the best and slainte! Particular thanks to our wives, Jo and Stace - we're gonna stink when we get home!
Chris and Trent "
We are really pleased to announce that we're taking part in Shitbox Rally Winter 2024! This year, all the teams are driving their shitboxes from Melbourne to Alice Springs.
Shitbox Rally is the largest community lead fundraiser for Cancer Council in Australia and is now in its 14th year. Part of the participation is that all teams have to raise a minimum of $5,000 but most teams raise well above this amount as you can see with the Winter 2024 rally target set at $2,000,000 plus.
These funds go to Cancer Council and we are extremely proud to be doing our part to support such a worthy charity. The fundraising is the hard part, so any donation you can give is greatly appreciated. Please make sure to follow us our progress via this page and the blog post below.
Shitbox Rally is the adventure of a lifetime challenging participants and their cars, worth no more than $1,500, on a 7 day drive across Australia to raise money for cancer research.
The rally is not a race – it’s a fun, colourful, unpredictable adventure with participants travelling at their own pace in smaller groups. Vehicles often break down but “we never leave anyone behind” and each night is spent camping beneath the stars and celebrating the day’s achievements. It all adds up to an incredible opportunity to see Australia’s vast and beautiful countryside and make lifelong friends, many brought together after experiencing cancer themselves or seeing cancer impact family and friends.
Since it’s inception the rally has been the largest fundraiser for the Cancer Council nationally.
Shitbox Rally is a dedicated fundraising event for cancer research with funds going to Cancer Council.
Cancer Council is one of the largest non-government funders of cancer research in Australia. We conduct and fund research studies across all cancers and all stages of the cancer journey.
Thanks to the community funds raised such as Shitbox Rally we can fund world-class research that reduces the impact of cancer for everyone.
$41 million over the past 13 years has been raised by Box Rallies to date, supporting ground-breaking projects such as:
These projects wouldn’t be possible without your support.
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