Our story
Here at Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation we’re helping to transform the healthcare of WA’s sick children so they can get well and stay well. It’s sometimes surprising for people to learn that our Foundation is the largest funder of Perth Children’s Hospital and the wider Child and Adolescent Health Service after government. In the past 25 years we’ve contributed over $92 million with a further $21 million committed over the next five years… read more.
See our impact
As Western Australia emerged from the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights we gained about the incredible work of paediatric researchers, clinicians and nurses reaffirmed to us the critical importance of our work.
We are uniquely placed, working closely with those on the frontline of children’s healthcare, to identify the areas of greatest need and what is going to drive the most impact.
This closeness has seen Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation again set a record in grant funding… read more.
Read our stories
Save BIG on toys this winter to support PCHF
Running for a Reason
‘Kid Takeover’ at hospital for good cause
Move to Improve
Curing Homesickness Cards
Lily’s Story
2020-21 was another record-breaking year for the Foundation, with funded grants totalling over $8.9 million. This gives us the ability to fund change, and make significant inroads in helping transform kids healthcare in WA that comes from:
Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation acknowledges the Wadjuk people of the proud Noongar nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the Foundation is located and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Get a head start on your Christmas shopping and feel good doing it. It might be chilly outside but here at PCHF it’s our favourite time of year, as more than 500 toys go on sale during the Big W...
HBF Run for a Reason - is back on Sunday, 21 May. Meet three of teams pounding the pavement to funds raise for PCHF.
Kids step behind the lens to mark the launch of a unique new campaign for PCHF Cricketer Mitch Johnson, former Miss Universe Australia Renae Ayris, West Coast Eagles star Jack Darling and photographer Jarrad Seng were among just some of...
Prescribing ‘exercise as a medicine’ in sick children. A new ground-breaking research project is paving the way for Australia’s first clinical exercise service at Perth Children’s Hospital for children living with chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cerebral palsy or...
Kids belong at home, not in hospital. With 90% of children experiencing some level of homesickness while in hospital, our partners Coles are supporting the Curing Homesickness initiative again this year to raise funds for WA sick kids. From today,...
Lily is a happy, confident 12-year-old who is now enjoying a more regular childhood. It hasn’t always been this way. Lily was born with Trichohepatoenteric syndrome, a condition so rare that it only occurs in one person in a million....