We believe in charging as little as possible, and keeping our fees accessible for everyone to be able to attend our retreat programs, however whether it’s for a gifting purpose or because of financial hardship, we have developed two bursary pathways to help raise the funds to attend one of our retreat programs.

Our Private Bursary services are available to help you raise the funds required to attend any of our Healing, Wellbeing or Training and Development retreats.

Our Foundation Bursary on the other hand is a specialised service to assist people who are living with cancer and are experiencing financial hardship, to be able attend one of our cancer retreat programs specifically.

By setting up a private bursary under your name, family, friends, work colleagues and even members of the community can make a tax-deductable* donation to the Gawler Cancer Foundation which will be pooled together and deducted from the cost of you (and even your support person) attending the retreat. This is a great opportunity for your loved ones to be able to contribute to your health and wellbeing plan, and even small donations pooled together will make a difference to the cost of attending a program.

There are a couple of things to keep in mind with this method:

• Bursary donations are genuine donations for ATO purposes and therefore are non-refundable, even if you change your mind to attend or cannot attend due to any reason. In the event you do not attend, the bursary donation/s would be allocated to the foundations’ general bursary fund, and used to provide financial assistance via our Foundation Bursary method.

• For the donation to meet ATO tax-deduction regulations, the donation must be over $2 and cannot be seen as being of direct benefit to the donor. For this reason, donations cannot be claimed as a tax-deduction if made by a spouse/partner, child or anyone living within the same household as the bursary recipient, or support person (if applicable). Please note: family NOT living within the same household can claim donations as a tax deduction.

If you wish to set up a Private Bursary fund, or make a donation to an existing Private Bursary please call our friendly client services team on 1300 651 211 or email us today.

Foundation Bursary services are available for people attending our cancer retreat programs only.

We believe in charging as little as possible, and keeping our fees accessible for everyone to be able to attend our retreat programs, however we also understand that high medical expenses and/or inability to work can result in financial hardship for people living with cancer.

We want everyone who would benefit from our educational cancer programs to be able to attend, and so for that very reason we have a Foundation Bursary fund from which we can allocate funds towards the cost of your attendance. The amount offered is dependent on individual financial circumstances and is determined upon application.

To enquire about this application process please call our friendly client services team on 1300 651 211 or email us today.