The Miranda Foundation

20/11/2025

🌟 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 🌟
The Biggest Play Date – Sunday, March 15, 2026 | 10am–3pm

We’re looking for amazing volunteers to help make The Biggest Play Date a huge success! This fun, family-friendly event is raising vital funds for the Monash Children’s Cancer Centre, and we need community legends like YOU to help bring it to life.

💛 Roles include:
✔ Assisting with activity stations
✔ Welcoming families and guiding them around the event
✔ Helping with set-up and pack-down
✔ Supporting fundraising activities
✔ General event support

If you’re friendly, reliable, and keen to make a meaningful difference, we’d love to have you on board!

💛 To volunteer: Comment below or send us a message!

Let’s come together, have fun, and support an incredible cause.
Thank you for helping bring smiles to little faces! 💛

09/11/2025

We are excited to start planning for The Biggest Play date 2026! Would you like to help us plan? Please let us know as we are meeting next Sunday and we would love your support! As you know, it takes a community to make a difference and this event is something we can not do alone! So please let us know if you would like to help us organise this event x

29/10/2025

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Meet Taylah 💙

Taylah was a vibrant, active teenager.

Then, at just 14 years old, she was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia.

Taylah went through years of treatments, which took an enormous toll on her physical and mental health. It was a journey that demanded extraordinary strength and resilience.

‘If I had something where my mind could escape the treatments – like virtual reality – where you are not just looking at the hospital room or seeing the needles and the things going into your body, it would have been a much easier experience,’ Taylah reflected.

Now 25 years old, she is cancer-free and pursuing her career in science and medicine and supporting other adolescents and young adults facing a cancer diagnosis.

With your support, we can help give 15 to 25-year-old cancer patients, like Taylah, access to the same proven pain and anxiety management tools used in paediatric care at Monash Health.

✨ Smileyscopes – virtual reality headsets with engaging content for this age group, including guided meditations

🐝 Buzzy Bees – vibrating medical devices to help relieve the perception of pain

‘Meditation and visualisation really helped me. Imagine how much more impactful this would be through virtual reality,’ said Taylah.

Your gift today will help transport adolescents and young adults undergoing cancer therapy from a world of distress to a world of calm.

Donate at: https://monashhealth.org/foundation-2025festive/

06/09/2025

04/09/2025

We had a conversation that lead to an opportunity to raise money for The Biggest Playdate!
If you can spare a few hours next Saturday or Sunday please help us!
We are volunteering at this amazing dance performance hoping to fund all the rides at next years event!
Please message us if you can help!

05/06/2025

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We were thrilled to welcome the Miranda family to Monash Children’s Hospital Cancer Centre recently, where they announced they had raised an incredible $60,000 in 2025 from their annual fundraising event, The Biggest Playdate 🌈

Taylah, who was diagnosed with leukemia at 14-years-old, and her mum, Vanessa, have been hosting the fun-filled carnival day for over a decade, raising awareness and important funds for care and research at the cancer centre.

Funds raised are making a real difference to patient care for adolescents and young adults (AYA) facing a cancer diagnosis, most recently helping to fund the role of an AYA Cancer Nurse Consultant.

This newly established position was designed to address the unique social, emotional, mental, physical and practical needs of people aged between 15 and 25 years old, with or after a cancer diagnosis, recognising that their needs differ from those of paediatric and adult patients.

An AYA cancer working group with passionate medical, nursing and allied health clinicians, from the Monash Children’s Hospital Cancer Centre as well as the adult Haematology and Oncology teams, has been set up to address the clinical need to develop a specialised and integrative AYA cancer service at Monash Health.

‘At Monash Health we are in an ideal and unique position to provide excellence in AYA cancer care, with both paediatric and adult multidisciplinary cancer expertise under the same roof,’ said Dr Pasquale Fedele, adult haematologist and AYA clinical lead at Monash Health.

‘Having a dedicated AYA Cancer Nurse Consultant has been a huge support for our patients and simply would not have been possible without the dedication of the Miranda Foundation and their amazing fundraising efforts.’

‘Funding this role is a major step to growing our targeted AYA cancer care service, to improve experiences and outcomes for our patients.’

We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Miranda family for their incredible support and continued commitment to making a positive impact on the care of young patients and families facing cancer 🤍

28/05/2025

17/04/2025

Taylah and I are going to this amazing event For Monash Children’s Hospital! There’s still tickets

https://events.humanitix.com/monash-children-s-hospital-shine-gala-2025?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7DtNdTEpTKa7H_5VISHIYJ2L1U1eqOZexi3bRsGvJk8_o_ru3p3If0LllnEw_aem_kl9XWxu6mXDDFmsfw2M2OA

Monash Children's Hospital Shine Gala

28/03/2025

The latest edition of Rarity Life, produced by Same but Different, is out and features an article on our Children’s Cancer Foundation Ambassador, Taylah Miranda. Rarity Life is full of articles, stories, real life experiences and images of people who live with, and have experiences of rare disease, disability and cancer.

In this, the 12th edition, Taylah’s story ‘The Different Versions of Me’, talks of her experience of being twice diagnosed and treated for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia – the first at just 14 years old, and then again at 19.

Rarity Life is an inclusive magazine, one of shared experiences, advice and inspiration – if you have a moment, do have a read: https://www.samebutdifferentcic.org.uk/raritylife

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