{"id":2056,"date":"2012-06-01T19:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:49:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:49:16","slug":"good-friday-appeal-cheque-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/good-friday-appeal-cheque-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Appeal cheque presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Little Declan Barrett presents the GFA cheque to the RCH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Good Friday Appeal (GFA)\u00a0presented a giant $15.8 million cheque to The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH)\u00a0tonight, representing a record-breaking first for\u00a0the new hospital.<\/p>\n

The cheque was ably delivered to the stage\u00a0by 2012 GFA poster child, 23-month-old Declan Barrett, and accepted by RCH Chairman Tony Beddison AO and Chief Executive Officer Professor Christine Kilpatrick.<\/p>\n

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Retiring GFA Executive Director Christine Unsworth with RCH Chairman Tony Beddison AO and RCH CEO Professor Christine Kilpatrick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Kilpatrick said the Good Friday Appeal played a significant role\u00a0in providing a healthy future for Victorian children and young people.<\/p>\n

“When we moved to this new hospital, we talked about it representing a new day for children’s health and I passionately believe that to be true.\u00a0 Together we can make a fundamental difference to the lives of young children,” she said.<\/p>\n

Around 300 GFA supporters attended the event not only to celebrate their fundraising achievements, but to say farewell to retiring GFA Executive Director, Christine Unsworth.<\/p>\n

Ms Unsworth has spent 16 years at the helm and has contributed immensely to the GFA, which funds ground-breaking research, family support staff positions and world-class equipment at the RCH.<\/p>\n

Among other things, this year’s GFA funds will enable the hospital to purchase a PET MRI machine.\u00a0 This medical imaging equipment will significantly improve health outcomes for Victorian children.<\/p>\n

Mr Beddison AO expressed his gratitude to Ms Unsworth and the GFA team.<\/p>\n

“I would like to thank each and every one of you for making such a difference to our work here at the hospital and, importantly, to the lives of sick kids and their families,” said Mr Beddison.<\/p>\n

“Of course great results come from the efforts of great teams, and the role of leader in a team is critical.\u00a0 Without question this appeal has had a wonderful leadership since its inception, and more recently with Christine Unsworth as Appeal Executive Director,” he said.<\/p>\n

Professor Kilpatrick seconded the Chairman’s congratulations of Ms Unsworth.<\/p>\n

“When I started here four years ago I was amazed by the outpouring of support for our hospital.\u00a0 The Good Friday Appeal reflects our own brand essence – our unified spirit of care for children – and Christine embodies that spirit.<\/p>\n

“I wish to thank Christine for all she has done for our hospital; for her hard work and support,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retiring Good Friday Appeal Executive Director Christine Unsworth hands over her last Good Friday Appeal cheque – and her team’s biggest yet – to the RCH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}