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Joel and Max are pleased to announce that we're taking part in Shitbox Rally Winter 2024! We will be driving our shitbox (car worth less than $1500) from Melbourne to Alice Springs taking the road less travelled through some of the best corrugated dirt roads and bulldust Australia has to offer.

In past years we had talked about Shitbox Rally being an epic adventure and a challenge that we would like to do 'one day...'.However, recent unfortunate events have seen us sign up with a passion to raise money for Cancer Council.

Max lost one of his best friends Chelsea to bowel cancer. She was diagnosed at a terminal stage of illness at just 32 years of age, Chelsea was just entering the prime of her life with the world at her feet.

Chelsea loved a road trip as much as the destination so we're taking her on our journey through the desert.

Joel was diagnosed with CLL (Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia) in 2022. He has learnt first hand how valuable cancer research and access to clinical trials are. Fifteen years ago CLL was treated with monotherapy chemo' with limited success and harsh side effects, the new combinations of immunotherapy on offer these days continue to improve quality of life during treatment and increase effectiveness. Joel is responding well to a combination of venetoclax & obinutuzumab only available to him through a clinical trial.

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 our progress via this page and the blog post below.