Fundraising allows us to provide innovative equipment and services to enhance patient care and staff wellbeing. Donations to our public health service help us make our community stronger, healthier and a better place for us all to live.
Peter Willis is our 2025 Dry July Ambassador — sharing his story to raise awareness and inspire others to support the Wellness Centre. Diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic colon cancer in 2019, Peter has endured more than most: multiple surgeries, long hospital stays and ongoing chemotherapy. But in 2023, he discovered the Wellness Centre at BRICC — and everything changed.
“I had walked past the Wellness Centre so many times, but I never once came in,”
By donating to Dry July this year, you’re helping us provide more than 3,000 free wellness appointments annually for local cancer patients like Peter — offering comfort and care when it's needed most.
Your donation supports over 24 free programs at the Wellness Centre, including:
This vital service exists because of donors like you. Every dollar makes a difference.
Click here to read Peter’s story and Donate to BRICC & the Wellness Centre
Ballarat Health Services Foundation is the community fundraising arm of Grampians Health Ballarat. Our purpose is to ensure our community receives world-class healthcare right here, where we and our loved ones live.
We assist the community to raise money to purchase equipment, build facilities and provide programs for and with Ballarat Health Services to make our community healthier, stronger and a better place for us all to live.
We welcome donations of any size – every donation makes a difference. All donations of $2 and over are tax-deductible.
Thanks to the generosity of local businesses and the community, this year’s Adroit Insurance & Risk Charity Golf Day has raised over $34,000 to support the Special Care Nursery and Maternity Unit at Grampians Health Ballarat.
Ballarat-based cycling group, the Velorats, have raised an incredible $43,500 for Grampians Health through the Ballarat Health Services Foundation.
Grampians Health and the Ballarat Health Services Foundation hosted the official launch of the 2025 Ballarat Marathon on 10 April 2025, in the Gardiner-Pittard Foyer of Ballarat Base Hospital.
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