EPILEPSY CHAMPIONS CLUB
Join the Epilepsy Champions Club – Your commitment to a regular donation
The Epilepsy Champions Club is a regular giving program that provides the option of arranging pre-authorised payments each fortnight, month, quarter, half yearly or even yearly.
For as little as $10 a month, your regular support will enable the Epilepsy Foundation to steadily build its capacity to support people living with epilepsy.
Many donors believe in our work but their circumstances don’t allow them to make a gift as large as they would like to make. Regular giving can really change this, if you think about the possibilities it can be a very powerful option.
Think of what just $1 per day could do, $31 a month and an incredible gift of $372 per year!
This not only helps you include gift giving into your long-term financial strategy, but also allows the Foundation to plan ahead and maximise the impact of your donations.
Monthly gifts can be made by credit card, direct debit or post-dated cheque and are automatically processed in the same week of each month.
Why not join the Epilepsy Champions Club now and help people living with epilepsy to achieve their goals for a better life?
Why did we call it the Epilepsy Champions Club?
At the start of the 20th Century, people who had intractable epilepsy were locked away in mental institutions all over the world. A movement started to build specialist colonies for epileptics, not acceptable by today’s standards but cutting edge for the times.
In 1902 the National Council of Women of Victoria was formed, it was a body of educated, influential women which comprised the experienced campaigners in women’s sufferage, they were to be known as Champions of the Impossible. In 1903 on October 28 and 29 Dr Mary Page Stone, a graduate of the University of Melbourne presented her paper “Epileptic Colonies” at their first Congress. Dr Stone made such an impression that it was decided to appoint a subcommittee to ‘confer with outside persons to bring about the formation of an epileptic colony’ as a commemoration of that historic Congress.
These champions were our inspiration for the Epilepsy Champions Club (ECC). We believe that everyone who supports us are truly Champions of Epilepsy and the ECC is one of the ways we can recognise your support.
Read stories of people living with epilepsy who benefited from this kind of support.
If you would like to receive Epilepsy Champions Club information or have any questions about the program please Contact us.
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