For children living with rare, complex, and life-threatening conditions, advances in medical science are creating possibilities that were once considered impossible. New therapies can target certain conditions at their source, helping children reach important milestones, reducing hospital stays, and in some cases offering the possibility of a cure.

Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation supports the work of The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne, helping fund initiatives that improve healthcare and create better outcomes for children and young people. The Foundation’s Gala Dinner 2026 will support the development and expansion of advanced therapies at The Royal Children’s Hospital.

Taking place on 3 December 2026, the Gala Dinner will raise funds to help make life-changing advanced therapies more accessible to children and young people living with rare and complex conditions. The Royal Children’s Hospital has already demonstrated leadership in delivering advanced therapies, particularly gene therapies. However, expanding access to these treatments requires more than developing individual therapies. Investment is also needed in infrastructure, specialist expertise, research, and the systems required to safely deliver these groundbreaking treatments to more children.

The Gala Dinner will help support the vision of building a home for advanced therapies at The Royal Children’s Hospital, creating the capacity needed to bring world-leading treatments to more young patients.

For families facing conditions that were once considered untreatable, access to advanced therapies can represent a profound change in what is possible. Supporting this work means helping children pursue healthier futures and giving families renewed hope.

Reserve your place here to support the Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and help make advanced therapies available to more children and young people.

Your support of the Gala Dinner will help make life-changing advanced therapies available to more children and young people.
Breakthrough advanced therapies are redefining what is possible for children living with rare, complex, and life-threatening conditions. Once considered untreatable, many of these conditions can now be targeted at their source – enabling children to reach milestones once thought impossible, reducing hospitalisations, and in some cases, offering a cure.

Building a home for advanced therapies at The Royal Children’s Hospital
The RCH has already demonstrated leadership in delivering advanced therapies, particularly gene therapies. However, expanding access to this world-leading care requires more than individual treatments.

3 December 2026