The Common Good Au

The Common Good Au Together we can help people live healthier for longer. Our research areas are health issues that touch nearly everyone in some way. And we want you to join us.

The Common Good, an initiative of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation, exists to help people live healthier, for longer. Through the power of the collective, we support and facilitate the work of incredible researchers who are dedicated to making breakthroughs in the areas of heart disease, lung disease, mental health and dementia. Whether it be a friend, a family member, or a colleague, we all know someone who is impacted by at least one of these conditions. In turn, that means we all know someone who can benefit from funding research in these areas. By funding research, we can provide hope to those suffering today, and for future generations to come. The impacts of our research ripple right across the nation and the world. We're on a mission to sustain the work of our brilliant researchers so that they can continue to make life-saving and life-changing medical breakthroughs. Research is a long game, so we need to support and fund as many hours as possible to ensure no stone is left unturned in any of our research areas. Every hour of research gets us one step closer to a medical breakthrough. We are also incredibly proud to support hospital innovation and patient care initiatives at both The Prince Charles Hospital and Caboolture Hospital.

28/12/2025

✨One iconic night. One powerful cause.✨

The Jacaranda Gala is a premium black-tie evening hosted by The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation to mark our 40-year milestone.

Join us as we celebrate four decades of life-changing and life-saving impact - through research, purposeful projects, essential equipment, and compassionate care at The Prince Charles Hospital and Caboolture Hospital.

Tickets on sale now
Enjoy a premium food and beverage package, entertainment, raffles, and live auctions in an elegant evening designed to connect, celebrate, and support remarkable research that powers today and reinvents the future.

⏰ Early Bird Rates available until 31 January, 2026.
👉 Secure your tickets at www.tcg.org.au/gala or follow link in bio

Be part of a legacy that truly matters.

✨Thank You for Your Kindness This Christmas❤️Over the last few days, thanks to the incredible generosity of our commun...
24/12/2025

✨Thank You for Your Kindness This Christmas❤️

Over the last few days, thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, more than 100 Christmas toiletry gift packs were delivered to patients in the adult mental health wards at The Prince Charles Hospital and Caboolture Hospital.

The Common Good Team had the privilege of sharing these gifts directly with patients spending the holidays in hospital, away from loved ones.

Every pack represents kindness in action, made possible by you, our community members who donated items, and came together to make a difference.

Our deep gratitude also goes out to our local business supporters Aspley Hornets Football Club and Caboolture Sports Central, who kindly offered their premises as a drop off point to collect toiletry packs from the community.

Thank you everyone for your heartfelt generosity. Your support truly brings warmth and care to those who need it most at Christmas.

If you missed this one, and would still like to show your care for others this Christmas, you can make a donation to The Common Good Christmas Appeal here.
Donate: https://bit.ly/Christmasgift2025

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Aspley Hornets (official)
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Merry Christmas to our incredible community🎄🎅The team at The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation wishes you a joyful Chri...
23/12/2025

Merry Christmas to our incredible community🎄🎅

The team at The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation wishes you a joyful Christmas and holiday season filled with love, laughter, and special moments with family and friends.

We appreciate each and every one of you and thank you for your generosity and support, which helps us help others.

For anyone wishing to reach out to the Foundation over the holidays, we wanted to let you know that our office will be closing for a short period of time and reopening on 5 January, 2026.

We are very much looking forward to 2026, and have lots in store for what is a very exciting milestone year for us at the Foundation.💫

🎄 Last Chance to Give a Gift that Makes a Difference💓Still looking for a Christmas gift that can help others? This is y...
22/12/2025

🎄 Last Chance to Give a Gift that Makes a Difference💓

Still looking for a Christmas gift that can help others? This is your moment to give with heart.

Every day, heart disease claims around 120 Australian lives and changes thousands more.

At The Prince Charles Hospital, researchers are working to change that - turning hope into breakthroughs that help people live longer, healthier lives.

This Christmas, your gift can support life-changing heart research that’s happening right now.

Your donation could help:
❤️ Improve cardiovascular fitness for people living with heart failure through innovative research, including altitude training trials
❤️ Build resilience in heart patients, helping them better cope with stresses like extreme heat
❤️ Accelerate world-leading research so more people can return to the lives and activities they love.

There’s still time to make a difference. A donation today could be the gift that changes a life tomorrow.

✨ Make it a Christmas gift with heart - donate before Christmas
https://bit.ly/Christmasgift2025

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🎄Give with Heart This Christmas ❤️“I didn’t know I had a dodgy heart until I was lying on the floor.”— Maree, living wit...
18/12/2025

🎄Give with Heart This Christmas ❤️

“I didn’t know I had a dodgy heart until I was lying on the floor.”
— Maree, living with a debilitating heart condition

Maree was fit and healthy - until a tear in her heart’s main artery left her gasping in agony at work. The dedicated surgeons at The Prince Charles Hospital saved her life, but her heart will never be the same.

She now lives with fatigue and breathlessness, and heart failure has taken away the active lifestyle and some of the simple joys she once loved.

But Maree is not giving up. She’s an enthusiastic participant in heart research at The Prince Charles Hospital and says she is already feeling the benefits of being involved.

This research is making a difference to her life now and could result in new ways to treat heart disease for countless others in the future.

Vital research like this relies on the generosity of our community. Please give with heart this Christmas and help people like Maree live healthier, longer lives.

🙌Donate today. https://bit.ly/Christmasgift2025

🔬 $547,000 invested in the next generation of medical researchers!The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation is proud to int...
17/12/2025

🔬 $547,000 invested in the next generation of medical researchers!

The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation is proud to introduce you to our 2025 PhD Scholarship Recipients. 👋

Thanks to your support, these six passionate researchers are working to make patient care safer, smarter, and better every day:

Emma Williams – Infection Prevention
Sarah Mackay – Clinical Nutrition
Annelise Kyriakou – Swallowing Disorders in Children
Dr Quentin Moyon – Critical Care
Dr Matthew Bright – Anaesthesia
Michael Garbutt – Biomedical Engineering

Thanks to our generous donors, these scholarships will help drive real-world impact and advance research that aims to improve health outcomes for so many in our community.

👉 Discover their stories and the difference you’re making:

https://www.thecommongood.org.au/news/meet-the-2025-phd-recipients/

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Our charity partners, The Common Good, an initiative of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation, rely on the support of r...
15/12/2025

Our charity partners, The Common Good, an initiative of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation, rely on the support of riders like you to help raise funds for life-changing research into organ transplantation. Many riders in the Tour de Brisbane peloton have personally experienced the impact of transplantation.

"The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation, through its initiative, The Common Good, is incredibly grateful to be the charity partner of the Tour de Brisbane for the 6th consecutive year. This event is significant, as is the research into organ transplantation it helps to fund. While the research is conducted locally, it gives hope to transplant recipients across Australia and beyond,” said Steve Francia, CEO of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation.

“2026 will be an exciting time for the Foundation as it is also our 40-year milestone – a time for us to reflect on the incredible impact we’ve achieved together with supporters like you over the past four decades.”

💙URGENT CALL OUT – Annual Christmas Toiletry Pack Drive 🙏We still need your help!50 packs needed for The Prince Charles ...
15/12/2025

💙URGENT CALL OUT – Annual Christmas Toiletry Pack Drive 🙏

We still need your help!
50 packs needed for The Prince Charles Hospital
30 packs needed for Caboolture Hospital

DEADLINE EXTENTED to Friday, 19th December 2025

A huge thank you to everyone who has already donated to our Annual Christmas Toiletry Pack Drive supporting patients spending Christmas in the Adult Mental Health Wards at The Prince Charles Hospital and Caboolture Hospital

For many patients, the holiday season can be incredibly lonely and difficult. Some won’t receive a single gift or visitor. A small toiletry pack may seem simple, but it can provide comfort, dignity, and a reminder that they are not forgotten.

We still need support from our generous community to reach the goal of 100–150 toiletry packs before Christmas.

Suggested items to include:
• Shampoo & conditioner
• Deodorant (roll-on only)
• Toothbrush & toothpaste (no mouthwash)
• Face wash, moisturiser, sheet masks
• Lip balm, hairbrush or comb
*Please no food or metal items
*All items must be placed in a toiletry bag or gift bag

📍 Drop-off locations (by Friday, 19th December):

• Aspley Hornets (official) Football Club
50 Graham Road, Carseldine

• Sports Central Caboolture
Cnr Hasking Street & Beerburrum Road, Caboolture

✨ Your simple act of kindness can lift someone’s spirits this Christmas. A small gesture can truly make a big difference.

Thank you in advance for your kindness.

12/12/2025

💜Next year marks a major milestone - 40 years of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation.

For four decades, we’ve acted as a bridge, connecting a generous community to the breakthroughs in remarkable research, exceptional equipment, and compassionate care programs that change and save lives.

2026 will be a moment to reflect on the impact we’ve achieved together and recognise everyone who has contributed - donors, past patients, research and clinical alumni, The Prince Charles Hospital and Caboolture Hospital teams, and our wider community. It will also be a time to look ahead to the health challenges of the future, and how, together, we can continue to be part of the solution.

Throughout the year, we’ll mark this milestone with a series of special initiatives and events, and we warmly invite you to join us.

This milestone is about more than 40 years of progress - it’s about an incredible community coming together for the common good.

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🎁 Holiday Joy Delivered to Kids in Hospital This Christmas 🌟This week, The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation team joine...
12/12/2025

🎁 Holiday Joy Delivered to Kids in Hospital This Christmas 🌟

This week, The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation team joined Merryl Nordstrom from Harvey Norman Aspley, along with Tony and Colleen from the Rotary Rotary Club of Aspley, to deliver this year’s bundle of gifts for children spending their holidays in hospital.

A total of 100 presents were hand-selected, purchased and beautifully wrapped, ready to bring smiles to children at The Prince Charles Hospital and Caboolture Hospital this Christmas.

We were warmly welcomed by hospital clinicians in the Children’s Wards, who accepted the gifts on behalf of the children who will be in hospital over the holiday period. Their support ensures these presents reach the young patients who need a little extra cheer at this time of year.

Now in its 8th year, this initiative is remarkable not only for its impact, but for its consistency, thanks largely to the dedication and drive of Merryl and her Harvey Norman Team, who have championed this tradition from the beginning.

Thank you to everyone involved for spreading joy again in 2025. Your commitment to helping local families makes an enormous difference. 🎄✨

💙REMINDER - ANNUAL TOILETRY PACK DRIVE CLOSING SOON ✨Can you help?For many in the Adult Mental Health Wards at The Princ...
11/12/2025

💙REMINDER - ANNUAL TOILETRY PACK DRIVE CLOSING SOON ✨

Can you help?

For many in the Adult Mental Health Wards at The Prince Charles and Caboolture Hospitals, the holidays can be a lonely and difficult time. Some won’t receive a single gift or visitor.

A small toiletry pack may seem simple, but to a patient, it can bring comfort, dignity, and a heartfelt reminder that they are not forgotten.

How you can help:
We’re collecting 100–150 toiletry gift packs for male and female patients and we need your help to reach our target with only 4 days to go.

What to include:
• Shampoo & conditioner
• Roll-on deodorant
• Toothbrush & toothpaste (no mouthwash)
• Face wash, moisturiser, sheet masks
• Lip balm, hairbrush or comb
Please avoid food or metal items
Packs must be in a toiletry bag or gift bag

Drop-off deadline: Sunday 14, December

Your simple act of kindness can lift a patient’s spirits this Christmas.

🙏 Want to help?
Comment ‘CARE’ below and we’ll DM you with more information

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The Common Good is people powering medical discoveries.

The Common Good is an initiative of The Prince Charles Hospital Foundation established in 1986 under the patronage of His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, to inspire a generous community to fund life-saving and life-changing health research that tackles Australia’s most significant chronic diseases.

Last year we provided over $5 million in grants for innovative and sustainable medical research, helping devoted researchers to pursue smart research without having to spend the majority of their time writing annual research grants or worry that their work won't be followed through. Our aim is to continue to provide more than $5 million every year to stoke innovation, with the help of people like you.

When you join The Common Good, you’re joining a movement; and when you support a particular area of research, you’re joining a team of researchers, donors, volunteers, partners and everyday people who all care about finding a breakthrough just as much as you do.