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“They’ve given me hope, and time to do all the things I’ve wanted to do…and importantly my son still has his mum.”  

The story of 50-year-old Tasmanian father, Lyndon, highlights the vital role the Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer (FCIC), located in Southern Adelaide, plays as a beacon of hope for patients facing devastating diagnoses.

None of us ever expect that it will be us. Our hope for you... is that it never will be. Kate had been a passenger in a car accident, the vehicle slamming into a tree. Brought to Flinders Medical Centre by ambulance, her injuries were extensive: bleeding on the brain, a broken pelvis, a shattered jaw, lacerated spleen and a fractured spine.

Thanks to the generosity of Flinders Foundation’s partners and supporters, the Flinders Medical Centre Child Safety and Wellbeing Health Service now has a new, dedicated and safe purpose-built facility to care for vulnerable, abused, neglected and at-risk children.

I’m Hayley, and I’m the Engagement Manager here at Flinders Foundation — I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you, if we’ve not already met!