Saturday March 24, 2012 – Sydney NSW

Thank you for choosing to take part in the 2012 RIDBC Splash for Cash swimathon and support the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC). By jumping in the pool and taking the challenge for charity you'll be helping RIDBC support thousands of children around Australia living with hearing or vision loss.

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  • Click 'Start Fundraising' (if you have already previously registered for an Everyday Hero event, please click 'Login')
  • Build your online fundraising page
  • Send your online fundraising page link around to friends, family and colleagues to start raising funds for RIDBC!

Splash for Cash events for 2012 include:

If you are unable to attend these events, you can also ‘Splash Out’ and swim on an alternative day and at your own venue of choice

Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children

The Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) provides a wide range of innovative services and educational programs for children with hearing and/or vision loss.

Over 1000 children with significant vision and/or hearing loss are benefiting from RIDBC’s broad range of tailored services. As well, RIDBC provides vision and hearing screening to more than 2000 babies and children each year. RIDBC supports children from their first weeks of life right through their teenage years.

As well as conducting centres at several locations in Sydney, Newcastle and the Central Coast in NSW, RIDBC provides support services in mainstream schools across Sydney. Through RIDBC Teleschool, RIDBC works extensively with children in regional and remote Australia via in–home videoconferencing. By using the latest communications technology to link deaf children and blind children with RIDBC’s highly specialised staff in Sydney, RIDBC is ensuring disability services are delivered to all Australian families – no matter how remote.

The RIDBC Renwick Centre, in affiliation with the University of Newcastle, conducts world–leading research and offers postgraduate courses in a range of fields relating to the development and education of children with hearing or vision impairment.

RIDBC relies heavily on fundraising and community support to continue to make a difference in the lives of these children.

FUNDS RAISED

$21,636.82

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Top Fundraisers

Krissie Bredin $6,244.00 AUD
Frank Antonini $4,700.00 AUD
Mitchell Croft $1,000.00 AUD
Liam Christie $710.00 AUD
David Ryan $530.00 AUD

Splash for Cash is an annual, fun-filled swimathon that raises funds for the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC), which provides quality and innovative services and education programs to children and families affected by hearing or vision loss.

We encourage people of all abilities and walks of life to join in. You don’t need to be a professional swimmer – you can swim one lap or one-hundred! You can swim with flippers, floaties or simply freestyle.

Swim as an individual or get a group of friends, colleagues or family together and swim together as a team. All the money raised will help RIDBC support deaf and blind children across Australia.

Swimmers can register to swim at one of the Splash for Cash venues or ‘Splash Out’ at any venue and any time.

RIDBC relies heavily on fundraising and community support to be able to continue to make a difference in children's lives. In order to maintain its intensive educational and research programs, the organisation needs to raise approximately $2.5 million every month.

All money raised through the Splash for Cash swimathon will ensure RIDBC can continue to make a difference in the lives of children living with hearing or vision loss.


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