Bowel Cancer Australia is a major beneficiary for the 2023 Dry July campaign.
Sign up to the Dry July challenge and go alcohol-free for 31 days to help us raise funds for people affected by cancer.
The good news is Dry July proceeds will benefit Bowel Cancer Australia and support our mission to have an everlasting impact where no Australian dies from bowel cancer and all those diagnosed receive the support they need.
We’d love you to sign up to the challenge and raise vital funds for people affected by bowel cancer, who need us now, more than ever.
We’d love you to sign up to the challenge and raise vital funds for people affected by bowel cancer, who need us now, more than ever.
How it works:
- Sign up here and select Bowel Cancer Australia as your charity beneficiary.
- Go alcohol free in July.
- Ask family, friends and workmates to sponsor you.
- Help people affected by bowel cancer.
What we’re raising funds for:
Bowel Cancer Australia’s 2023 Dry July team is raising funds to expand the charity’s integrated Bowel Care Nurse pilot program, enabling more patients to receive dedicated support from a local Bowel Care Nurse.
A Bowel Care Nurse is a registered nurse who has specialist knowledge and experience caring for patients with bowel cancer. Serving as a patient’s main point of contact during and beyond cancer treatment, supporting and communicating with the patient and their loved ones.
These dedicated Bowel Care Nurses help to improve bowel cancer outcomes in their communities by enabling patients to take a more active role in their bowel care treatment.
Making sure patients and their families understand their options and receive the critical support they need – from that initial point of diagnosis all the way through their treatment pathway.
Despite being the third most diagnosed cancer, bowel cancer patients don’t receive the same level of support as other common cancers.
Every bowel cancer patient deserves to have access to a dedicated Bowel Care Nurse.
Please note funds raised will be remitted to Bowel Cancer Australia through the 2023 Dry July grants program.
Once you've signed up, you will get your very own unique profile page to share with friends and family to receive donations.
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Once you've signed up, you will get your very own unique profile page to share with friends and family to receive donations.
Sign up support people affected by bowel cancer today!{/grebox}
Bowel cancer risk increases significantly when two or more alcoholic drinks are consumed per day. If you choose to drink alcohol, limit the amount. Almost 1 in 5 Australian adults (18%) consume more than 2 standard drinks per day.
Please Note: Dry July is a fundraising campaign aimed at challenging social drinkers to change their habits for a month and make some healthy lifestyle changes. We would encourage people to drink responsibly and stick to the recommended daily guidelines for the rest of the year. We advise heavy drinkers or people dependent on alcohol to speak with their GP before signing up to Dry July.
Despite being the third most diagnosed cancer, bowel cancer patients don’t receive the same level of support as other common cancers.
Described as a 'lifeline' by patients and their loved ones, Bowel Cancer Australia’s telenursing and telenutrition services are addressing this gap, enabling equity of access to personalised care and tailored support nationwide.
Since 2010, Bowel Cancer Australia’s Bowel Care Nurses and Nutritionists have been offering support for patients and loved ones through the charity’s Helpline and Peer-to-Peer Support Network.
Thanks to the continued support of the Dry July Foundation, Bowel Cancer Australia has been able to further expand our Bowel Care Nurse and Nutritionist Programs. Increasing the capacity of our Patient Services team, to meet the growing demand for these vital services.
Described as a 'lifeline' by patients and their loved ones, Bowel Cancer Australia’s telenursing and telenutrition services are addressing this gap, enabling equity of access to personalised care and tailored support nationwide.
Since 2010, Bowel Cancer Australia’s Bowel Care Nurses and Nutritionists have been offering support for patients and loved ones through the charity’s Helpline and Peer-to-Peer Support Network.
Thanks to the continued support of the Dry July Foundation, Bowel Cancer Australia has been able to further expand our Bowel Care Nurse and Nutritionist Programs. Increasing the capacity of our Patient Services team, to meet the growing demand for these vital services.
Serving as a constant, dedicated point of contact for the many bowel cancer patients who utilise the charity’s telenursing service nationwide, Bowel Cancer Australia’s Bowel Care Nurses offer support during and after treatment. As well as assisting patients, family, friends, and concerned members of the community by answering questions about bowel symptoms, treatment options, or how to support a loved one affected by the disease.
“Bowel cancer patients are often faced with unique challenges and their journey can vary greatly from other cancers. Leading many to believe they have ‘the wrong cancer’,” says Bowel Care Nurse Tammy.
People affected by bowel cancer face multiple nutritional challenges, including being unsure about what to eat, diarrhoea, appetite loss, and changes to taste and smell.
“Bowel cancer patients are often faced with unique challenges and their journey can vary greatly from other cancers. Leading many to believe they have ‘the wrong cancer’,” says Bowel Care Nurse Tammy.
People affected by bowel cancer face multiple nutritional challenges, including being unsure about what to eat, diarrhoea, appetite loss, and changes to taste and smell.
Yet they receive little or no nutritional information following diagnosis and treatment.
Bowel Cancer Australia’s uniquely qualified Bowel Care Nutritionists, help to address that need by providing guidance that’s practical, sustainable and evidence based.
“A diagnosis of bowel cancer will involve a change to diet and lifestyle and your new bowel habit might be hard to come to terms with,” says Bowel Care Nutritionist Janet.
"Families, friends and carers also require support and practical advice to assist in meal preparation when caring for a bowel cancer patient," Janet adds.
So as to provide further cancer-focused support to the growing number of Australians affected by bowel cancer, Bowel Cancer Australia welcomed Australia’s first dedicated Bowel Care Oncology Social Worker to our patient services team.
This unique new role will help to reduce anxiety and distress, and increase feelings of hope and empowerment, by assisting bowel cancer patients in learning new ways of coping, providing practical information about available resources in their community, and improving communication with their medical team and loved ones.
“Your psychological and emotional health can have a significant impact on your physical health and ability. Social work therefore looks to holistically address your overall health and wellbeing. I am here to provide another part of the scaffold of support around you, helping to uphold you through your bowel cancer experience.” ~ Victoria, Bowel Care Oncology Social Worker.
Bowel Cancer Australia’s integrated Bowel Care Nursing program continues to expand, supporting the employment of dedicated part-time Bowel Care Nurses in regional communities across the country. Acting as a key point of contact for bowel cancer patients and their families as they navigate the health system in their local area – providing advice, education, support and direct patient care.
“Bowel cancer is Australia’s second deadliest cancer, but when detected early 99 per cent of cases can be successfully treated. We need to be at the forefront of that treatment, helping ensure clients get the best possible care,” says Sunshine Coast Bowel Care Nurse Kirsty.
Thanks to the Dry July Foundation’s support Bowel Cancer Australia can put more bowel cancer patients and loved ones in touch with a Bowel Care Nurse, Nutritionist or Oncology Social Worker, where they can receive specialist support from a member of our team.
No one need go through bowel cancer alone.
Despite being the third most diagnosed cancer, bowel cancer patients don’t receive the same level of support as other common cancers.
Described as a 'lifeline' by patients and their loved ones, Bowel Cancer Australia’s telenursing service is addressing this gap, enabling equity of access to personalised care and tailored support nationwide.
Since 2010, Bowel Cancer Australia’s Bowel Care Nurses and Nutritionists have been offering telenursing and telenutrition support for patients and loved ones through the charity’s Helpline and Peer-to-Peer Support Network.
Thanks to a grant from the Dry July Foundation, Bowel Cancer Australia has been able to expand our Bowel Care Nurse Program through the addition of another part-time Bowel Care Nurse to join our nationwide telenursing service to assist in the rollout and implementation of our patient-reported outcomes online tool.
A registered nurse with specialist knowledge and experience caring for patients with bowel cancer, and having recently returned from a period nursing in a regional hospital, Bowel Cancer Australia is pleased Tammy was able to re-join our Bowel Care Nursing team.
Tammy will serve as a constant, dedicated point of contact for the many bowel cancer patients who utilise the charity’s telenursing service, offering support during and after treatment. As well as assisting patients, family, friends, and concerned members of the community by answering questions about bowel symptoms, treatment options, or how to support a loved one affected by the disease.
“Bowel cancer patients are often faced with unique challenges and their journey can vary greatly from other cancers. Leading many to believe they have ‘the wrong cancer’,” says Tammy.
Thanks to the Dry July Foundation’s support we can put more bowel cancer patients and loved one in touch with a Bowel Care Nurse, where they can receive specialist support from Tammy or one of the team.
“No one need go through bowel cancer alone,” Tammy said.
Bowel Cancer Australia is committed to supporting individuals and their families through all stages of their journey, working hard to ensure every bowel cancer patient receives the support they need.
Talking to and reading about the experiences of another person who has been through bowel cancer, or who is going through a similar situation, can be enormously valuable and reassuring.
A key element of Bowel Cancer Australia’s Peer-to-Peer Support Network and dynamic awareness campaigns is the writing and sharing of one’s personal story.
Not only are there proven benefits to emotional wellbeing in taking the time to write about your experiences, reading about the experience of others can also be incredibly beneficial. Assisting patients with making difficult decisions during their treatment, offering hope and solace.
We call these ‘Lived Experience Stories’.
Thanks to a grant from the Dry July Foundation in 2019-20, Bowel Cancer Australia has been able to expand upon our Bowel Cancer Stories and create a series of seven Lived-Experience booklets.
The booklets have been designed specifically for people who have been diagnosed with bowel cancer, their family and friends. Offering insight into how bowel cancer can affect your body, emotions, relationships and daily life, through the personal experiences of others diagnosed with the disease and their loved ones.
A very warm thank you to the Dry July Foundation and all the passionate Bowel Cancer Awareness Advocates who have shared their empowering lived experiences for these unique booklets - helping to raise much needed awareness, support people living with or beyond bowel cancer and their loved ones, and to encourage others to share their personal stories too.
Click here to view the Lived Experiences booklets.
Let’s have (virtual) brunch and support people living with or beyond bowel cancer and their families.
Staying connected and feeling supported is more important now than ever. So make a cuppa, cut yourself a slice of banana bread or rustle up some avo on toast, and have a chat online with your friends, family and colleagues through Facetime, WhatsApp, Skype, Messenger, Zoom or House Party.
Donate the cost of your weekend brunch, morning coffee or afternoon cuppa to Bowel Cancer Australia to ensure we can continue to support people living with bowel cancer during these uncertain times.
| How to host a Virtual Brunch
Choose a date
Pick a date and time. Your Virtual Brunch can be 15 minutes, an hour or longer.
Brunch not really your thing? Host a virtual morning or afternoon tea, cuppa or coffee break, dinner or evening catch-up. It’s up to you!
Create a fundraising page
Create a fundraising page
Create your Brunch for Bowel Cancer online fundraising page as an individual or team now using Go Fundraise.
Prefer to ‘get social’? We have details for how you can create a Facebook Fundraiser here too.
Send out your invitations
Send out your invitations
Invite your family, friends and colleagues to get involved and include details about how they can join your Virtual Brunch.
Send out your invitations via email, SMS or direct message. Set-up an Event using Facebook, create a calendar invitation and post to your social media.
Remember to share your unique fundraising page link and encourage everyone to donate the cost of their weekend brunch, morning coffee or afternoon cuppa. Then wait for the RSVPs to arrive.
Have a chat
Have a chat
Remind your family, friends and colleagues to join your event and make a donation. Be sure to include details on how they can connect with you online (e.g. create a WhatsApp Group or provide the Zoom invitation URL). Then get ready to chat, laugh, enjoy a yummy brunch and connect with each other.
Have a friend who would like the support your event, but is unable to attend? Share your fundraising page URL and ask them to make a donation. Then set-up a time to have a one-on-one chat with them over the phone or via instant message. Staying connected is more important now than ever.
| Red Apple Day brunch
A highlight of Bowel Cancer Awareness Month is Red Apple Day, when Australians are encouraged to support the vital work of Bowel Cancer Australia through organising apple themed fundraising activities.
If you’ve ever thought about raising funds and awareness for bowel cancer, then Bowel Cancer Awareness Month is the time to do it.
Host an apple themed virtual brunch, morning or afternoon tea, dinner or evening catch-up this Red Apple Day.
Create your Bowel Cancer Awareness Month or Red Apple Day online fundraising page as an individual or team now using
Everyday Hero or Go Fundraise.
Head online now to Go Fundraise - Red Apple Day or Bowel Cancer Awareness Month.
| Free downloadable resources
We've got everything you need to help you make your fundraiser a success, including free downloadable resources, helpful fundraising tips, useful information and facts about bowel cancer. Head to our online shop to download -
- social media headers and profile pictures, key facts and donation images to share on your Facebook, Instagram, Stories and online fundraising page;
- awareness posters, brochures and flyers to share via web or email, or to pop up on your front fence, window or car.
Help save lives by raising awareness of young-onset bowel cancer and funds to better support the growing number of young Australians who are diagnosed with the disease each year.
Bring together friends and family to recognise and honour people in your community who were diagnosed with bowel cancer under the age of 50.
Organise a #Never2Young fundraiser or create a dedicated #Never2Young online fundraising page using Go Fundraise or make a donation to Bowel Cancer Australia today.
Host a fundraiser to celebrate young people living with or beyond bowel cancer or honour the memory of loved ones for #Never2Young Awareness.
Bowel Cancer Australia's goal is to have a lasting impact on our health future - where no one dies of bowel cancer and all those diagnosed receive the support they need.
Online fundraising couldn’t be easier with Facebook.
In minutes you can create a Facebook Fundraiser in support of Bowel Cancer Australia for your upcoming birthday or celebration or launch an online fundraiser for any activity you like.
Create a fitness challenge for yourself, like running 25kms on the treadmill or completing 30 burpees every day for a month and seek sponsorship from family and friends.
Use your passion or hobby to build a creative fundraiser and ask members of your club or group to make a donation.
Request donations in lieu of gifts for your birthday, anniversary or engagement, or create a memorial fundraiser to honour the memory of a loved one.
Facebook helps you get started with their simple to follow Fundraising set-up tool, and gives you tips along the way to help you reach your goal.
Once you’ve created your Facebook Fundraiser you can seamlessly connect friends to your cause and gain supporters across Facebook, through invitations and sharing on your Facebook wall.
People can donate to your fundraiser via their smartphone in just a few clicks without even leaving Facebook, with all donations sent directly to Bowel Cancer Australia through the PayPal Giving Fund.
| Create a Facebook Fundraiser
It's easy to create a fundraiser through Facebook, share it with friends and reach your goal.
Simply click on the link, press the ’Select Nonprofit’ button, search for Bowel Cancer Australia and then follow the prompts.
Please Note: Bowel Cancer Australia doesn’t receive a notification every time someone creates a Facebook fundraiser. We love to thank our passionate supporters and share their stories. So that we may promote and share your fundraiser, please send us an email or message us on Facebook @BowelCancerAustralia to let us know about your much appreciated Facebook Fundraising efforts.
Still not sure where to start? Ask us how you can digitise your fundraiser.
| Free downloadable resources
We've got everything you need to help you make your fundraiser a success, including free downloadable resources, helpful fundraising tips, useful information and facts about bowel cancer. Head to our online shop to download -
- social media headers and profile pictures, key facts and donation images to share on your Facebook, Instagram, Stories and online fundraising page;
- awareness posters, brochures and flyers to share via web or email, or to pop up on your front fence, window or car.
Virtual events | Fitness tracking | Burpees for bowel cancer | Brunch for bowel cancer | Facebook fundraising
Bowel Cancer Australia’s new Virtual Events combine fitness, fundraising and technology to help save lives and improve the health and wellbeing of people living with bowel cancer.
If you had planned to host a face-to-face fundraiser or participate in a large sporting event and are now unable to do so, virtual fundraising provides a great alternative.
Instead of cancelling your event, change it to a Virtual Event instead!
Whether participating as an individual or part of a team, our virtual events unite our community and create a digital network of enthusiastic fundraisers dedicated to helping beat bowel cancer.
By joining others in a connected and supportive community, you can overcome the challenges of distance and isolation.
Our Virtual Fundraising pages allow you to keep track of your activity via your Fitbit or smartwatch and still participate in the even, from a distance, no matter where you are in the country.
Set yourself a personal fitness challenge and ask your family and friends to donate in support of a great cause.
Even better, build a team, and participate together remotely - running on a treadmill, cycling at home on your trainer stand, doing push ups, chin ups, star jumps, burpees or space hopping.
Create your Virtual Challenge online fundraising page as an individual or team now using Go Fundraise.
Ask us how you can digitise your fundraiser.
| Fitness tracking
You can now seamlessly integrate your online fundraising page with your personal fitness device, to track your time spent exercising, steps taken, kilometres travelled, burpees completed and so on.
Don’t have a Fitbit or smartwatch? No problem. You can also manually upload those numbers to your online fundraising page as you go. It's simple.
Details on how to connect your fitness app to your online fundraising page can be found on Go Fundraise.
| Burpees for bowel cancer
Looking for a fun fitness challenge to complete in the comfort of your own home? Sign up to our Burpees for Bowel Cancer challenge!
Challenge yourself to complete a certain number of burpees every day, every week, or every month. Or commit to doing one burpee for every dollar donated by your supporters.
| Brunch for bowel cancer
Host a (virtual) brunch and support people living with or beyond bowel cancer and their families.
Staying connected and feeling supported is more important now than ever. So make a cuppa, cut yourself a slice of banana bread or rustle up some avo on toast, and have a chat online with your friends, family and colleagues through Facetime, WhatsApp, Skype, Messenger, Zoom or House Party.
Donate the cost of your weekend brunch, morning coffee or afternoon cuppa to Bowel Cancer Australia to ensure we can continue to support people living with bowel cancer during these uncertain times.
| Create a Facebook Fundraiser
It's easy to create a fundraiser through Facebook, share it with friends and reach your goal.
Facebook helps you get started with their simple to follow Fundraising set-up tool, and gives you tips along the way to help you achieve your fundraising target.
Once you’ve created your Facebook Fundraiser you can seamlessly connect friends to your cause and gain supporters across Facebook, through invitations and sharing on your Facebook wall.
People can donate to your fundraiser via their smartphone in just a few clicks without even leaving Facebook, with all donations sent directly to Bowel Cancer Australia through the PayPal Giving Fund.
Simply click on the link, press the ’Select Nonprofit’ button, search for Bowel Cancer Australia and then follow the prompts.
Please Note: Bowel Cancer Australia doesn’t receive a notification every time someone creates a Facebook fundraiser. We love to thank our passionate supporters and share their stories. So that we may promote and share your fundraiser, please send us an email or message us on Facebook @BowelCancerAustralia to let us know about your much appreciated Facebook Fundraising efforts.
| Free downloadable resources
We've got everything you need to help you make your fundraiser a success, including free downloadable resources, helpful fundraising tips, useful information and facts about bowel cancer. Head to our online shop to download -
- social media headers and profile pictures, key facts and donation images to share on your Facebook, Instagram, Stories and online fundraising page;
- awareness posters, brochures and flyers to share via web or email, or to pop up on your front fence, window or car.
