Thursday Girls
Advanced Breast Cancer Therapy & Support Groups for Melbourne and Regional Victoria.
Free, weekly, professionally led therapeutic support groups for women living with advanced breast cancer throughout Victoria. Women of all ages are welcome. Face to face in Box Hill and on Zoom.
Cash for Cans
Do you collect and recycle containers for the Container Deposit Scheme?
Or have you just been thinking about it?
Here’s one good reason to start! Thursday Girls is now an approved Donation Partner within the scheme. This means when you return your containers, you can select Thursday Girls as a recipient.
Every little bit helps for Thursday Girls, as we don’t receive any government funding to cover our operational costs.
We are reliant on philanthropic organisations, support from our amazing partners, and generous individuals who give us regular or one-off donations.
Currently, we are registered with the North and the West CDS regions - stay tuned for an update on the East. In the meantime, you could join another region and drop off outside your normal zone for next level support!
Here's how to start:
Download the App for your region (only North or West at this stage) and register as a user
In the App, set your payment type as Donation and select Thursday Girls
When you go to a refund point be sure to scan your barcode before you begin to return the bottles. Don't follow the instructions to Donate on the Reverse Vending Machines as this is not connected to your account and your donation may get allocated elsewhere.
Celebrate! Feel free to tag us on Facebook or Insta if you want to share the love.
Please share with all your friends and encourage them to choose Thursday Girls.
It will give you a good feeling and help us continue with our support
The link to the scheme can be found below. It’s as simple as downloading a the appropriate CDS App for your area and setting up your payment type to Donation before you begin.
Our appreciation goes out to all of our supporters for all of the years of connection and community at Thursday Girls. This is made possible by the many people who have donated as well as those who have volunteered their time and efforts.
We are pleased to share that the 2023
Thursday Girls Fundraiser dinner raised $19,836.
Our hearts are filled with gratitude for the continuous and generous support!
Search Thursday Girls Website
“… the group is about connecting and supporting each other. I feel that the main purpose for the group is to get women together that UNDERSTAND each other and what each individual is going through. There are only a selective amount of people who fully understand.”
— M, Thursday Girl
Support Thursday Girls and you can win hundreds of amazing prizes!
MAJOR PRIZE
Win an adventure-filled $250K First Prize Pack
Closes 8pm (AEST) Thu 13 Jun 2024
Drawn 9am (AEST) Fri 14 Jun 2024
Golden sunsets, golden memories and more await if you win the $250K First Prize Pack!
Discover the freedom of the open road with your new, fully decked-out $115K Volkswagen California Beach camper van. You’ll have plenty of time to dream about what to do with your winnings as you explore our great big country or snooze beneath the stars. Plus, you’ll have plenty of road trip money with $120K in cashable gold bullion and more than $14K in shopping vouchers!
Win this incredible $250K First Prize Pack and weekend adventures are just the beginning.
Thursday Girls
Thursday Girls comprises a warm, supportive and inclusive community of women who are living with advanced breast cancer, and their partners. This cancer is incurable, but due to ongoing improvement in treatment options, many women are able to live satisfying, productive lives for many years.
The Thursday Girls program includes two weekly therapeutic support groups for women, and a similar twice-monthly group for their partners.
The groups have three main functions: to share information, create meaningful relationships with people in similar situations and get in touch with difficult feelings and thoughts, dilemmas and challenges.
One group meets face to face in Box Hill, a suburb in Melbourne’s east. This is a hybrid group, with a Zoom option for women who may be unwell or away.
There is also a group that is only on Zoom. This enables women who live in other parts of Victoria to join remotely.
Metastatic Breast Cancer
Around 3000 women die each year from metastatic breast cancer in Australia.
That’s 1 in 34 women.
Living with
Advanced Breast Cancer
Create an
“In Memorial” Tribute Page for Your Loved One
Create a page in tribute to a loved one, so friends and family can honour their memory with a gift to Thursday Girls
About Us
Learn about our Support Group the Thursday Girls and the work we do to support women with advanced Breast Cancer
Our Stories
Read some of the stories of our members and their experiences.
Resources
Find resources including sites that provide more information, tools and links to other support groups
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional Owners of the unceded lands on which I live and work. We recognise their care of and connection to land, water and community over the past 60,000+ years. We pay respect to their long and proud tradition of story-telling, and to their Elders, who always have, and always will, care for Country, culture and community, today and for future generations.