
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. After 12 months of venetoclax & obinutuzumab treatment only available to him through a clinical trial Joel was given the great news that he is in remission. The treatment drugs he was on have now been approved as the first-line standard of care for similar cases.
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.
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.
$50 million over the past 15 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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