What is Hope Cottage about:
Hope Cottage Tamworth will be the first ‘Farm Stay Retreat’ of its kind in Australia.
We will provide a free accommodation facility providing families and parents/guardians
with a relaxing, positive, comfortable and secure "home away from home" to escape to
during and after treatment/illness.
At Hope Cottage, Families can relax, regroup and have some much needed fun and receive
support from staff, volunteers and other Families who are sharing similar experiences.
How did Hope Cottage come about?
March 20th 2004, Chaianne Ramage was diagnosed with acute
myeloid leukaemia M5, within days of her diagnosis and after starting her chemotherapy protocol,
Chaianne suffered countless intracerebral bleeds (brain bleeds) and was placed on life support
in ICU at the Sydney Children’s Hospital.
Chaianne made a remarkable recovery from the bleeds and was in remission from the leukaemia and
after months of gruelling chemotherapy, Chaianne underwent a bone marrow transplant on the 9th
July 2004.
Chaianne is still going strong to this day!
After Chaianne and her mother, Thera, returned home from hospital, they wanted to do something
positive with their experience and thought very hard on what they could do for the Families still
going through what they did and still were…….
Hope Cottage was born!
Hope Cottage is something that Chaianne also believes in and is working to support and she is an
integral part of our team. Chaianne is always coming up with thoughts and plans for the Children
who will be staying at Hope Cottage.
Chaianne’s mother, Thera, set up the Chaianne Ramage Foundation Inc. in honour of her beautiful
and brave Daughter and it is the Chaianne Ramage Foundation that raises the funds to build Hope
Cottage.
A home away from home
Each family will have their own fully self contained cottage. Each cottage will have everything
that they need, right down to the swing set, BBQ and slippery dip out the back yard! Our volunteers
will deliver fresh fruit and vegetables, fresh home made cakes, muffins etc, twice a week. Our
Families will be cared for to ensure their stay is a relaxing and enjoyable one.
Hope Cottage will be a special place where families can share time together, have a rest from the
treatments, hospital and the daily routine of caring for a child in an hospital environment.
Most importantly, our Families can draw strength and support from other Families in similar
circumstances.
Where do our families come from?
Hope Cottage will provide our accommodation from Families all over Australia and International
Families as well.
Many Thanks to Kristy Palmer and the Sydney to Surf
We would like to send our love and appreciation to Kristy for choosing the
Chaianne Ramage Foundation and Hope Cottage as her charity in the recent
City to Surf. A fantastic job!
Her sponsorship page can be found
Here
Also, Thank you to;
Janelle Waters and all who purchased one of the 40 Hope Cottage caps and wore in the City Surf.
Health Club Manager
Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
Pfizer Australia
Thank you for thinking of our charity and showing everyone your support of our great cause by running
the City to Surf and crossing the Bridge wearing our caps. We hope to see you all again next year!
Our sincere thanks and appreciation to everyone for helping us get closer to our dream of Hope
Cottage!
Our Newest Sponsor - The Good Guys!
We would like to introduce our newest sponsor. The Good Guys!
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The Chaianne Ramage Foundation Inc/Hope Cottage are proud to have Travice DeSilva's
Good Guys Store in Tamworth in Partnership with us.
All the Staff and employees of the Good Guys in Tamworth work hard to help raise funds
for the building of Hope Cottage and their hard work and dedication to their fundraising
and personal involvement with Hope Cottage is greatly appreciated.
Special thanks to Travis DeSilva and Kathy Webb for maintaining such professional, friendly
and caring contact with Thera, the President of the Chaianne Ramage Foundation Inc and Hope
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Current Fundraising - Raffle
The raffle has been drawn for the Hope Cottage Telemarketing Fundraiser. A very lucky lady has won $20,000
to spend at her local Westfields shopping centre. The winning ticket number is 75724.
Voiceworks are currently running another Telemarketing campaign for Hope Cottage with the same price,
a $20,000 spending spree at your local Westfield shopping centre. That could be you! :-)
Voiceworks Marketting
We thank Voiceworks a Direct Marketing Company that is currently running a Telemarketing Campaign
to raise funds for the Chaianne Ramage Foundation Inc to help build Hope Cottage.
Share your stories, Offer your ideas
We have a forum that you can sign up to and join our community. You can share your stories, seek support from others in the same situation as yourself, offer advice or support to others or even discuss ideas to assist Thera, Chaianne and the Hope Cottage Foundation achieve their goal of opening the first Hope Cottage just outside Tamworth.
Hope Cottage Wish List
Now that our dream to open the first Hope Cottage is getting closer to being a reality, we have created
a 'wish list' of things we need in order to move forward towards our biggest dream. You can have a read of the
wish list here.
More News
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