Helping Starship Care for Our Children

Barfoot & Thompson are passionate about supporting the Starship Foundation. That’s why we’re committed, as Five Star sponsors, to giving them a guaranteed annual financial contribution. This helps them provide equipment and services that are outside normal government health funding – the extras that make all the difference to young patients and their families.

For our team, supporting the Starship Foundation also means giving our time and resources. That’s why we also sponsor a number of fundraising activities and are the sole funder of the Magic of Reading programme which donates a new book to every child who spends a night or more in hospital.

• Guaranteed annual financial contribution
• Sole funder of the Magic of Reading programme
• Sponsor the Friends of Starship’s annual Christmas Cracker House Tour
• Special one-off fundraising campaigns such as our ‘Building our Children’s Health’ campaign in 2004, which purchased a new $300,000 ultrasound for Starship Radiology.
• Purchase of $80,000 of paediatric cardiac theatre equipment in 2007
• Support in kind such as the provision of free auctioneering services at Starship fundraising events.
• Collectors for the annual appeal