Your Local Charity
Gold Coast Hospital Foundation is the official charity for Gold Coast Health. As a locally-based community organisation, we raise funds to support patients and their families by delivering local health programs and projects. Our purpose is to relieve medical hardship caused by illness, injury or disability while supporting the incredible patient care provided by Gold Coast Health medical professionals.
Who We Are
With no government funding, the Foundation relies on the generosity of its valued supporters, sponsors, corporate partners, community groups and individuals who raise crucial funds through donations, events, appeals, bequests, regular giving and other fundraising activities.
Together with this wonderful support, the Foundation is committed to raising much-needed funds to benefit the health and well-being of children and adults across the Gold Coast region. The Foundation does not fund anything that government budgets provide, but rather delivers a range of vital support programs that would not otherwise be available to patients and their families at local public hospitals and community health facilities.
We fund and deliver the vital extras to improve patient care and comfort including:
- Cancer Patient Transport Service
- Emergency Accommodation Service
- Purchasing medical equipment and aids
- Funding hospital-led health research
- Improving hospital facilities and patient spaces
- Providing scholarships for Gold Coast Health staff
What We Do
With community support, Gold Coast Hospital Foundation funds medical equipment, health research and support programs for patients and their families at the following Gold Coast public hospitals and health care facilities:
- Gold Coast University Hospital
- Robina Hospital
- Varsity Lakes Day Hospital
- Southport Allied Health Precinct
- Robina Allied Health Precinct
- 13 community-based public facilities
Our vision
To ensure our community has access to the best possible health care when it is needed most.
Our mission
To engage and inspire the local community to contribute vital funds that will assist in delivering life-saving services and enhanced patient experiences, helping to ease the heartache and stress when children, adults and families face critical health challenges.
Who We Support
Patients
More than 100,000 babies, children and adults across the Gold Coast and further afield are supported during their treatment and recovery in hospital.
Families
We provide emergency accommodation assistance to help the direct family members of patients receiving critical care for serious illness or injury.
Health Staff
We fund lifesaving equipment and innovative health research that helps Gold Coast Health staff deliver swifter diagnosis and enhanced treatment.
Hospitals and Health Facilities
We raise vital funds for three public hospitals, two health precincts and 13 community health centres to help keep Gold Coasters healthy.
Community Always
When a health crisis strikes, we stand united, ensuring no one faces it alone. At the heart of everything we do is a commitment to improving health outcomes and saving lives across our community.
Positive Impact that Counts
We deliver impact where government funding can’t stretch. We ensure every dollar stays right here on the Gold Coast, providing critical healthcare solutions where it truly matters.
Care Beyond Self
We show compassion and support to everyone we meet. Our people are dedicated to the well-being and needs of others, inspiring our community to help those in critical need. We go above and beyond.
Honour our Promises
When we say we will, we do. We hold ourselves to high standards and follow through on our commitments to our partners and the community. Our actions demonstrate our dedication to delivering on our word.
Better Outcomes, Everyday
Every day, we strive for positive change. Our focus is on making tangible progress in all we do, ensuring we leave things better than they were before.
Stronger Together
Collaboration fuels our impact. By focusing on lasting relationships, we enhance our ability to support those in need, providing a life-saving hand to children, adults and families who are suffering.
Purpose and Legislation
Primary objects
Those objects, as identified in the Hospitals Foundations Act 1982 (Qld), for the relief of poverty and distress of humans in Queensland caused by illness or disease.
Secondary objects
To exist as a charitable, not-for-profit, public benevolent institution and to function as such, with excellence, for the purpose of achieving the Primary Objects.
The relief of poverty and distress, such as sickness, disability, destitution, suffering, misfortune or helplessness, of humans in Queensland, but particularly the Gold Coast, caused by illness or disease.
Legislation and finance
Gold Coast Hospital Foundation is a charitable Public Ancillary Fund that raises money to fund activities and projects that help improve the care delivered at Gold Coast Health facilities including Gold Coast University Hospital. The Foundation operates according to the following Acts and requirements:
- The Hospital Foundations Act 2018
- The Hospital Foundations Regulation 2018
- Charities Act 2013 (Cth)
- Australian Charities and Not-For-Profits Commission Act 2012 (Cth)
- Public Ancillary Fund Guidelines 2011
- An independent annual financial and operational audit
- A requirement to produce an Annual Report detailing operations and financial results. This public document is lodged with the Parliament of Queensland by the Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Services
The Foundation’s status as a Public Ancillary Fund was approved on 29 May 1995. In December 2015, our status changed to being endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient Type 1 as a Public Benevolent Institution.
The Foundation is:
- GST Concession effective from 1 July 2005
- Income Tax Exempt effective from 1 July 2000
- Endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient effective from 1 July 2000
- Covered by item 2 of the table in Section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997
The Foundation secures income through both philanthropic fundraising and commercial income activities including vending machines and sponsorship. Having a mixed-income strategy allows the Foundation to secure a stable and reliable income base from which to plan well for the future and to engage with the local community who are keen to support public health care.
Registered charity
Gold Coast Hospital Foundation is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) Register.
