22 July - 31 August

#ForkCancer with Longest Table!

Host a night of feasting, fun and fundraising with your netball club! Together, with your club by our side, we can raise essential funds for lifesaving cancer research and patient care through The Hospital Research Foundation Group.

donate

What is The Longest Table?

The Longest Table is The Hospital Research Foundation Group’s annual cancer fundraiser, where you can host a night of fun and feasting to fight for a future free from cancer for your loved ones.

Every year, cancer takes the lives of 50,000 Australians. With your help, our passionate researchers will keep fighting hard, finding new ways to prevent, treat and hopefully cure this heartbreaking disease.

The official date for The Longest Table is July 22, 2023, but if this doesn’t suit then that’s OK! You can hold an event with your club anytime until the end of August.

Host a Longest Table with your club!

Hosting a Longest Table with your netball club can be as simple or extravagant as you’d like!

Need some inspiration? Here’s just a few ways you can #ForkCancer:

Host a night in your clubroom with dinner, drinks, a raffle, and more!
Ask your supporters or club sponsors to make a small donation with every goal scored
Take your team for a fundraising lunch at a winery or bring the team together for a pub night

However you decide to host your club’s Longest Table, our team is here to help you every step of the way!

3 Simple Steps

Register your club

Plan & Promote

Invite your teammates, put up flyers and get planning

#ForkCancer & Donate

Host your netball fundraiser, have fun and donate!

#ForkCancer your way!

In 2022, the Karoonda Netball Club hosted a Longest Table with their local community!

The club hosted a Longest Table to help those in their community – past and present – impacted by cancer, and fight for a future free from this heartbreaking disease.

“As a small community, when friends and family are hurting, we come together to support. We encouraged our members, players and supporters to dig deep and do something constructive to help make a difference in this space,” says organiser and Netball SA board member, Caroline Phillips.

“We dream of a cancer free world for our mini magpies and their families.”

The Karoonda magpies hosted their event during their football and netball games, with donation boxes at the front gate of the oval and clubrooms, a VIP table with grazing platters and drinks and a raffle with donated prizes.

You’re helping people like Cate

Cate West is a loving mum, wife, sister, daughter, aunty and friend – and is facing a heartbreaking fight against brain cancer.

It was late 2021, following three months of severe headaches and nausea, occasional numbness to her limbs and countless visits to her GP, Cate was eventually told the worst.

Cate was diagnosed with a 6cm brain tumour, resulting in Stage 3 Astrocytoma.

“I could never have imagined in a million years that this is how my life would go,” said Cate.

Cate is a dedicated netballer who is hoping your club can raise essential funds to help people like her fight cancer.

“Netball has always been something to really hold our family together,” said Cate.

Will your club rally together to help people like Cate? Join Cate and The Longest Table in our mission to fight cancer and support world-class research and patient care.

Let’s fight cancer, one forkful at a time

Since launching The Longest Table in 2013, our community has helped raise over $2.4 million for cancer research... but we’re not stopping there!

Your support as a host of The Longest Table will help us fund more cancer research projects, improving and saving even more lives from cancer!