[1] In 1975, Jack Kasses and John Lough met in the waiting room of Sydney Children's Hospital where their daughter and son respectively were undergoing treatment for leukaemia.

Lough approached the Apex Club in Wollongong to raise money for cancer research.

They started the "Help a Kid Make It" campaign – with a target of $1 million to facilitate research into childhood cancer.

The foundation evolved into Children's Cancer Institute, which opened its own research laboratories in 1984.

The Institute undertakes a range of fundraising initiatives including 'Build for a Cure', where a newly-constructed and fully furnished home in Glenmore Park was sold at auction in 2014 for A$783,000.