THE CAUSE

The Enchanted Ball is the largest annual fund raising event for its beneficiary, The Financial Markets Foundation for Children (FMFC), which provides funding for pioneering research projects, undertaken by leading research institutions, that focus on improving children’s health and well-being.

THE FMFC'S HISTORY

Established in 1990 by the Reserve Bank and a group of Australia’s leading banks, the FMFC has allocated over $30m to 262 research projects.

For more about the FMFC and the projects it supports, see www.foundationforchildren.com.au

A PAST GRANT FUNDED
THROUGH THE FMFC

mIA

Mia suffered from sepsis aged five and lost both her legs. Children are dying of sepsis in this day and age in our advanced health care system.

A $160,000 Grant (2019) to the University of QLD

‘Acute Resuscitation in Paediatric Sepsis - a randomised controlled trial to reduce morbidity and mortality due to sepsis in children’.

“One minute Mia was looking okay and 48 hours later her heart stopped. Within 48 hours you’re at death’s door. How do you as a parent reconcile that?”

Dr Sai Raman, Paediatric Intensivist, QLD Children’s Hospital

“They would’ve just heard me screaming at the top of my lungs: “We’re losing her!”

Amy Wilkinson, Mia’s Mum

PAST GRANTS FUNDED THROUGH THE FMFC

Murdoch Children’s Research Institute

$160,000 Grant

“Non-invasive detection of rejection after heart transplantation in children.”

Shiloh, now a teen, has undergone seven open heart surgeries, had heart failure and a transplant.

Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

$158,000 Grant

“Designing the perfect killer CAR-T cell for paediatric brain cancers.”

Pippa Rea was diagnosed with DIPG aged nine and passed away aged 11. DIPG is a high-grade form of childhood brain cancer.

Children’s Medical Research Institute

$160,000 Grant

Curing blindness using novel gene delivery vectors that target human retina.

Matthew White, now a teen, has a form of blindness that is progressive. Once the blindness progresses too far, there’s nothing that can currently be done about it.