Ms Averil Power:

As the Senator knows, we rely on public fundraising for most of our funding. We get approximately 3% from the State, so we raise 97% of our income every year. We took a big hit in 2020 and had to cancel Daffodil Day with just a few weeks to go, but the public rallied around and helped us respond so that we could keep our services going. We actually had a very good year in 2021, particularly because we had a special on "The Late Late Show" for Daffodil Day which helped boost our income.

We had our strongest ever Daffodil Day. As a result we have grown our services. For example, we have doubled our investment in counselling and our investment in cancer trials. We have opened new services like early detection roadshows to help pick up some of these missed cancers. It is great that our funding has been growing because it is helping us to step up. However, there is so much more that we could do and that we need to do. We are finding the second half of last year and this year much more difficult, because people have less money in their pockets.