We are really pleased to announce that we're taking part in Shitbox Rally 2025 - Spring! This year, all the teams are driving their shit cars from Alice Springs to Gold Coast, via well known places such as Oodnadatta and Bourke!
Gareth - As many of you know I lost my mum to Cancer a couple of years ago and my grandad many years ago also. Cancer impacts every one of us in some small or significant way.
Simon (Docs) - My mother in law Jan was a breast cancer survivor. I've also seen first hand how losing family members to this disease impacts a wider circle of families and mates, as Gareth mentions above.
We are raising money to support the Cancer Council and would love to have you help us financially or emotionally as we take on this epic trip across Australia.
We'll be doing the rally in JanDi, our 2006 Ford Falcon Futura wagon. Named in honour of Simon's mother in law and Gareth's mum, and painted the (almost) exact colours of a car that Di used to own back in the swinging sixties!
Shitbox Rally is the largest community lead fundraiser for Cancer Council in Australia and is now in its 15th 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 Spring 2025 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.
Big Love,
Gareth and Simon
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.
$59 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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