Face of the Appeal 2025
The search is on for the 2025 Good Friday Appeal - Faces of the Appeal - find out more and submit your applications here.
Hear from Isla, one of the faces of the 2022 Appeal.
The Good Friday Appeal is the largest fundraising initiative for The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne (RCH). It brings together people from across the community to raise funds so that the RCH can continue to provide world class care. Funds from the Appeal help support ground-breaking research, state of the art equipment and technology, education and family centred care programs.
Each year two patients are chosen to be the ‘Face of the Appeal’ and their story is shared with the public to provide an insight to their experience with the hospital and inspire the community to give for the kids.
Our search for the 2025 Faces of the Appeal has now begun!
What's Involved:
Commitments of the Face of the Appeal, and their family, include:
- Sharing the child’s (and parent’s) story along with story from the main treating clinician.
- Sharing photos and videos of the child’s time during treatment at RCH.
- Consenting to photo shoots for campaign materials (posters, digital, print and outdoor advertising).
- Consent to image being used by partners and promoting the Good Friday Appeal with them (eg. Woolworths).
- Ability to attend the Good Friday Appeal launch event in February 2025.
- Availability for media interviews and appearances during the campaign period - 6 weeks to 18/04/2025.
- Availability all day on Good Friday, 18th April 2025.
- Attend Thank You event at the RCH, June 2025
- Plus ad hoc appearances outside of Appeal time at fundraising and partner events.
What's in it for you:
The Good Friday Appeal will support you with the following
- A unique opportunity to share your story, to encourage and support others.
- Media training and support prior to any interviews.
- Social media support.
- Images and video taken through the campaign.
- A network of support from past faces and their families.
- One of a kind experiences - such as appearing on the Channel 7 telethon, running on ground at the Superclash at Marvel stadium, and many many more.
- Opportunities for partner experiences - such as the Puffing Billy, Melbourne Skydeck, Bounce, Woolworths and more.
If you are interested in nominating a child for the 2025 Face of the Appeal – please complete the below form and we will be in contact. You will need to be the parent/guardian of the child to submit an application.
Applications close 5pm, Thursday 22nd August 2024.
Meet our past Faces of the Appeal
2024 - Finley & Emily
Emily, ten years old, and Finley, two years old, have both received life-saving treatment, Emily for the cancer in her brainstem and Finley for his severe spina bifida.
2023 - Arlo & Aru
The 2023 little ambassadors, Aru and Arlo both needed life-saving heart surgery and treatment from the Royal Children’s Hospital cardiology team.
Their treatment at the RCH is ongoing.
2022 - Isla & Alex
In 2022, a then 3 year old Alex, and 8 year old Isla, didn't have much in common. However, what they did share the same diagnosis, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a cancer that attacks the blood and bone marrow.
2025 Application
Complete the form below to submit an application for your child to considered for the 2025 GFA Face of the Appeal.
Find out more about our past Faces with these beautiful video stories produced by the RCH:
Meet Aru
Meet Finley
Meet Isla
Thank you to all our past Faces of the Appeal
A big thank you to all our little ambassadors and their families who, over the past twenty years, have generously shared their stories and time to support the Good Friday Appeal.
