“get on the BUS with us”
Team “get on the BUS with us” is a team participating in a national “Box Rallies” fundraising event to raise money for the Cancer Council and we need your support.
Box Rally events have raised over 21 million dollars for Cancer Research Projects and are the largest community lead fundraiser for the Cancer Council.
The event invites teams to purchase a $1000 vehicle, create a community theme around it, then survive a marathon cross-country outback drive. Winners are the team that most embrace the spirit of the event and raise the most funds.
The 2019 Spring rally takes us 3,614km over 7 days from Melbourne to Townsville via Birdsville and we want your good name to come with us.
Our new team theme is the BUS and we are inviting everyone to join us by participating in our fundraising events. Larger donations collected by groups can earn a 35-40 word dedication to a special person printed onto the bus.. Participating groups or organisations that fund raise can also record a Bus Chant Video as well as have their Special Dedication printed onto the bus.
The front and the doors are for the Rally and Cancer Council logos, with the back for our personal dedications and team sponsors logos. That leaves the rest of the BUS for everyone else that makes a straight out donation (not an item purchase) on the Team Page. So if you want your name as a supporter or the name of someone who has battled with Cancer to be on the bus, make a donation and leave details in the comments section and you can 'get on the BUS with us"
$10 min donation for a Name only
$50 min donation for a Name with a 35-40 word Dedication
The old mini bus will be highly decorated and optimistically totally covered in hundreds of names and dedications. Your participation, at any level, is crucial to our success.
These funds go to the 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. You can also follow what we are up to on our facebook page. Watch out for the creativity of the Bus Chants participants that we will be broadcasting from the BUS at our events and on the Rally.
Shitbox Rally is the adventure of a lifetime challenging participants and their cars, worth no more than $1,000, this year for the 10th year anniversary rally, over a 7 day across Australia endeavour 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.
Here we go folks, we are up and running. Lets see who is the first to get on the BUS with us and make the first donation.
Here we go folks, our first fundraising event is a Sausage Sizzle at Bunnings Box Hill on Fri 8th Feb. We will have an Awareness Table to collect Donations and Register Names and Dedications to go onto the BUS. Cake Stall, Raffle etc. Cake bakers and helpers on the day are most welcome. Call Marty 0411 044 726
On what would have been his 42nd birthday, I am launching the primary dedication that is going to be on the BUS with us
CROOKE, Wes 14-01-77 to 26-06-14
Had nine wonderful years of coaching you Wes
I watched you grow from a boy to a man
So proud of my first Junior National Champion
Even more proud than your Mum or your Dad
I took pride in the way you were liked and admired
By everyone involved in our sport
Winning multiple Springboard and Platform titles
Your humility never fell short
Was devastated when you had to retire
You took it much better than me
Saw only the good in what we had achieved
Not angry at what the future might be
Two battles you fought, the score was one all
But you still lived your life to the hilt
Added Trace, Liam and Finn to your haul
Of achievements your lifetime had built
Will always remember your quirky demeanour
Your loyalty and friendship with me
Reflecting only on the good you achieved
And your catchcry of
“Aren’t We Lucky”
Samples of what the Dedications and Names will look like if you "get on the BUS with us"
BOLD is to honour those touched by Cancer
Italic is to recognize Supporters
$10 min donation for a Name
$100 min donation for a Dedication
Anyone can lodge a Name or Dedication on our page on the Shitbox Rally Website.
Make sure you clearly identify which name you wish to appear on the BUS with us.
We will respond and confirm all donations on this page.
Those supporters who donate the minimum amounts to have their name or a dedication printed on the Bus will be issued with an Official "get on the BUS with us" Bus Ticket.
Online donations will receive an E-ticket and
Cash donations at events will receive a Printed ticket.
$10 min donation for a Bus Ticket for a Name to get on the BUS with us.
Remember you can have your name as a supporter or
honor the name of someone you know who has battled with Cancer.
$100 min donation for a Bus Ticket for a Dedication to get on the BUS with us.
You can write up to about 40 words in a dedication to someone who has battled with Cancer.
We found our Shitbox. Must be an omen, was totally covered. We have already started scraping off all the freeloaders on the BUS and preparing to cover it with our own paying passengers names. Came complete with its own box of shit inside. Needs a bit of work but the spare is pretty good. It has dual air-con, you can open the front windows or the back.
Watch for posts of our progress as we clean it up and start decorating it.
Next public opportunity to buy a Bus Ticket for a Name or Dedication to
"get on the BUS with us"
will be next Sat & Sun 2nd & 3rd March at
WESTFIELD DONCASTER SHOPPING CENTER
Come and snap up a bargain on very yummy
Award Winning "Heather Brae Bakery" goodies. (thanks Bass)
We'll be at the Community Desk out the front of Woolies
on Level 1 all day Sat & Sun
Next public opportunity to buy a Bus Ticket for a Name or Dedication to"get on the BUS with us"will be next Sat & Sun 9 & 10 March at WESTFIELD FOUNTAIN GATE SHOPPING CENTER Come and snap up a bargain on very yummy Award Winning "Heather Brae Bakery" goodies. (thanks Bass) We'll be at the Community Desk out the front of Jamaica Blue all day Sat & Sun
Next public opportunity to buy a Bus Ticket for a Name or Dedication to"get on the BUS with us" will be this Sat & Sun 23 & 24 March at WESTFIELD KNOX SHOPPING CENTER Come and snap up a bargain on very yummy Award Winning "Heather Brae Bakery" goodies. (thanks Bass) We'll be at the Community Desk out the front of Best & Less all day Sat & Sun
Next public opportunity to buy a Bus Ticket for a Name or Dedication to "get on the BUS with us" will be this Sat & Sun 30 & 31 March at WESTFIELD PLENTY VALLEY SHOPPING CENTER Come and snap up a bargain on very yummy Award Winning "Heather Brae Bakery" goodies. (thanks Bass) We'll be at the Community Desk between The Coffee Club and Dumpling Chef all day Sat & Sun
Big thank you to Eva Vega who donated $20 in memory of her loved mom "Magdalena Udarbe" and brother in law Gunther Friedrich.
Your donation is now being processed and both Magdalena and Gunther are on the BUS with us.
Big thank you to Robyn Goodyear who donated $20 in memory of her beautiful husband "William Goodyear" and her niece "Filipa Joyce"
Your donation is now being processed and both William and Filipa are now on the BUS with us.
This is a pic of "Zac the Brave" when he came to visit us at Westfield Plenty Valley today. Good on ya buddy. So happy to be able to have you "get on the BUS with us"
We are bringing the size of the Full 40 word Dedication into line with the equivalent of the area of four Names and reducing the cost to $50. We hope that this will make a Full Dedication affordable to more people who would like to get a Dedication to someone on the BUS with us.
We are out and about again this weekend at SUPERCHEAP AUTO BLACKBURN. (214 Whitehorse Rd) They have a sale on at the moment so its a good time to come and support us and check out the store.
Huge thank you to the Rotary Club of Greater Dandenong. I was guest speaker at their meeting tonight with a full on "get on the BUS with us" - Shitbox Rally Presentation. What an incredible response. They filled our collection box, bought heaps of our biscuits, added six names and one dedication to the BUS and are also considering a Club Donation. Cant express enough just how much we appreciate your support.
The Shitbox BUS is now up and running and had its first outing today to the car wash for a good clean inside and out. Next up is Roadworthy and Rego and then its fun with paint.
Fun at the car wash, the BUS getting a good clean up, Front and Back - Inside and out.
Big thank you to Zahilda Khatoon for your support today. Your $10 donation is now being processed and your name is now on the BUS with us.
Getting busy now. The raffle for the Two Weekend Tickets to the Presidents Cup is up and running with raffle tickets now available here on this page and at both our Fundraising Golf Day Venues, Latrobe Golf Park and Yarra Bend Golf.Our Major Gala Dinner Fundraising Event is now fully confirmed."LAST ONE STANDING CHAMPIONSHIPS"Thurs 12th September 2019 - 7.00 pm start at The Sovereign, 302 St Georges Rd ThornburyFeaturing Australia's Iconic Olympic Champion STEVEN BRADBURY as MC/Guest SpeakerLIVE Music by Australia's own Piano Man MARTY ROSEThree Course Dinner with Dancing, Fun and Championship Games. Major Prizes to be won.Raffles and Auctions. Last One Standing Door Prize.Very Special Memorabilia Auction by Steven Bradbury.Tickets $140 includes a Name on the BUS with us. Trybooking.com Tables of ten.
New Venue and Format for our Gala Fundraiser
Now at the Eureka Room, Eureka Hotel, 1 Church St, Richmond.
Finger food and Drink on Arrival.
Tickets only $45 from Oztix or direct from Eureka Hotel
We now have colour on the BUS
Started the new paint job on the BUS tonight and got a couple of good coats onto it. Put a touch up top coat on tomorrow and then ready for stickers on the weekend.
Time for stickers. Paint job done and the first passengers are now on board. Sponsors are next and then we load up all the Names and Dedications.
Bus Chant words along the top, Drivers names on the door, Names and Dedications on the side, Wes and the boys, the route map and some supporters on the back, starting to look the part now!
Huge thank you to the kids and coaches from North Lodge Swimming Academy for taking the time to do our BUS Chant before their training session today. Check out the video.
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.
Almost $20 million 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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