HORSHAM Country Music Festival has become one of the Wimmera Cancer Centre’s major contributors with its latest donation.
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Festival organisers donated $16,000 from the event in March to the centre, which is being constructed in Horsham.
It comes after the group donated $17,500 from its A Pleasant Sunday Afternoon concert in 2016, the first event in the new Horsham Town Hall theatre.
The Rachael’s Wish fundraising campaign for the cancer centre has raised more than $1.6 million, far surpassing its initial target of $1 million.
Horsham-based company Locks Constuction started work on the centre in January. It is due to be completed by the end of the year.
Country music festival co-ordinator Lyall Wheaton said four of the group's members had been affected by cancer in the group’s 12-year history.
“It’s a cause close to our hearts,” he said.
Festival committee member Lynda Arthur presented Wimmera Health Care Group chief executive Catherine Morley with a cheque at the festival.
Mrs Arthur was diagnosed with cancer in 2014 and received treatment in Horsham in 2014 and 2015.
“It was obvious to myself and other patients that the cancer unit in Horsham was overcrowded and a new cancer centre was required,” she said.
Ms Morley said the health care group was grateful for a second donation from the festival committee.
“We look forward to working with the committee to ensure this significant donation is recognised in the new centre,” she said.
