Every amount, large or small, helps us to meet our goal of providing a number of medical research grants each year. These life-changing advances improve health outcomes for children and their families.
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Make a Meaningful Impact as a Partner Partner with HCRF and help drive life-changing children’s medical research. Whether you become a Diamond, Platinum, Gold, or Event Partner, your support funds groundbreaking research that improves children's health. Together, we can create a brighter future. Get in touch today to explore partnership opportunities!
Funding Research That Changes Lives
With 75+ grants awarded, HCRF supports leading medical researchers dedicated to achieving the most promising clinical outcomes.
Your Support Creates a Lasting Impact
Your generosity not only funds vital children’s medical research but also helps researchers secure larger government grants, amplifying the impact of every dollar raised. Together, we can drive breakthroughs that change lives.
HCRF began with a simple idea: to advance paediatric medical research and improve the lives of children in the Hunter and beyond.
This vision was sparked in November 1995 during a conversation between three very passionate people, Janelle Shakespeare, Lorraine Gardner and Dr. Cliff Hosking.
29 years later we are still going strong!
Powered by Passion, Driven by Impact HCRF is a volunteer-led foundation committed to funding life-changing children's medical research. As an auspice group of the Hunter Medical Research Institute, we have spent nearly three decades supporting local researchers tackling critical paediatric health challenges.
Our dedicated volunteers generously contribute their time, energy, and expertise, ensuring that every dollar raised is used effectively. This support not only advances medical breakthroughs but also helps researchers secure millions in national funding, amplifying their impact. Through global collaborations, HCRF plays a vital role in keeping the Hunter region at the forefront of pioneering advancements in children's health.
The Hunter Children’s Research Foundation (HCRF) is on a mission to make a difference! Since 1996, they've been championing the cause of kids' health, teaming up with HMRI and HNEKidsHealth to fundraise and support vital research into illnesses that affect our precious little ones.
Without your support, all these life-saving research projects would just be ideas on a shelf, gathering dust. That's why every dollar raised by HCRF fuels groundbreaking projects & world leading research in areas like asthma, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and sleep disorders – the kind of illnesses that can rock any family's world at any time.
HCRF isn't just writing cheques, they're funding dreams! They're providing the tools researchers need, hiring the heroes who make it all happen, and handing out grants with love to support groundbreaking projects that could change the lives of our little ones and their families everywhere.
HCRF is an auspice group of HMRI, meaning we operate as a volunteer committee under the governance of HMRI.
HCRF is a volunteer committee dedicated to raising funds that go directly towards research supporting children and families in the Hunter New England Region and across the globe.
