Your impact
Mater Giving Day is a day to express gratitude, give support, contribute and make a difference. Read how funds raised will help make a difference in the community.
Anastasia Gandini
“Mater Giving Day is the day I am grateful for donors' generosity, which allows researchers like me to investigate new avenues for cancer treatment for those patients who don’t currently have any other options.”
Anastasia Gandini
Mater Cancer Researcher
Your donation this Mater Giving Day is helping researchers, like Anastasia, find new treatment options for cancer patients.


Taryn Collins
“Mater Giving Day is the day I thank the donors for allowing us to create such a beautiful team to support women here at Catherine’s House. It takes such bravery to seek help, particularly for mental health, and I thank you for enabling us to build such a beautiful facility to support these women, their babies, and their families.”
Taryn Collins
Peer Support Worker – Catherine’s House
Your donation this Mater Giving Day will help carry on the Sisters of Mercy tradition of meeting unmet needs. Through past donations, South Brisbane is now home to Catherine’s House—a dedicated perinatal mental health facility.
Esther White
“This Giving Day, I am celebrating my patients who have shown such courage following a diagnosis of breast and gynaecological cancers.”
Esther White
Clinical Nurse Consultant, Mater Cancer Care Centre
Your donation this Mater Giving Day will help improve the care and outcomes for these brave and beautiful women every day.


Dr Carlie Cullen
“This Mater Giving Day, I am really appreciative that we’re able to deliver a world-first clinical trial to help people with multiple sclerosis.”
Dr Carlie Cullen
Mater Neuroscience Researcher
Your donation this Mater Giving Day will give researchers like Dr Carlie Cullen the tools they need to help unlock endless possibilities.
Carla and Ethan Sikes
“Mater Giving Day is the day that we show our thanks to the doctors, nurses, midwives and all the staff at Mater. If it wasn’t for them, our lives would look very different to what they do now.
Ethan was born at 27 weeks after having in utero surgery at 24 weeks for his spina bifida defect. It still amazes me that such a delicate surgery can take place on such a tiny baby.
I never thought I would be the parent of a premature baby and although our journey was very long, very hard and very emotional, I knew that Ethan was in the safest hands.
That’s why we as a family give back on Mater Giving Day. Because if it wasn’t for them, we wouldn’t have our miracle baby Ethan.”
Carla Sikes
Ethan’s mum
Your donation this Mater Giving Day will improve outcomes for our tiniest and most fragile patients—from helping specialist doctors perform complex operations on tiny babies still in the womb to providing life-saving, critical care after birth.
