Team ‘The Ando’s” are proud to announce that they are taking part in the Shitbox Rally Autumn 23! This event goes from Newcastle to Townsville via Betoota. Glenn and Mark have been mates since Grade 8. (Too many years to mention) Both Glenn and Mark are passionate about cars and were inspired to enter the Shitbox Rally for the adventure and to give back to the community. Glenn lost a very good friend Paul Bushell to bowel cancer last year and Mark has friends and family who have been affected by cancer.
Our steed for the event is a $500 sun faded Kermit Green 2006 Mazda 2. The Mazda was saved from a trip to the scrap yard and the previous owners are happy to see it being used for such a great cause. With a powerful 1.5lt engine and automatic transmission the Mazda will be the envy of all Shitboxers.
Glenn- I've known about the Shitbox Rally for a while now, it was always an 'i'd love do that oneday' type of deal. It really appealed to me but life always seemed to get in the way. In late 2021 my mate Paul Bushell passed away from Bowel Cancer, it really hit me hard, to lose such an awesome person to cancer was such a blow.
My father has also undergone recent skin cancer treatment, it is just unrelenting, one is removed and another appears somewhere else. I've had my own close call too, after having a stage 1 Melanoma removed on Christmas eve a couple years ago, i was lucky, i got it early.
Doing the rally for me will be a reward for the effort of fundraising, not going to lie, it's a bit daunting! but I'm up for the challenge!
The Shitbox Rally is the largest community lead fundraiser for the Cancer Council in Australia and is now in its 13th year. Part of the participation is that all teams have to raise a minimum of $5000 but we aim to raise much more. The total aim for this year’s rally by all participants is $2,000,000 plus.
These funds go to the Cancer Council and we are extremely proud to be doing our part to support such a worthy charity. The fundraising is the hard part, so any donation you can give is greatly appreciated. Please make sure to follow our progress via this page.
Glenn and Mark Anderson
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Shitbox Rally is the adventure of a lifetime challenging participants and their cars, worth no more than $1,500, on a 7 day drive across Australia to raise money for cancer research.
The rally is not a race – it’s a fun, colourful, unpredictable adventure with participants travelling at their own pace in smaller groups. Vehicles often break down but “we never leave anyone behind” and each night is spent camping beneath the stars and celebrating the day’s achievements. It all adds up to an incredible opportunity to see Australia’s vast and beautiful countryside and make lifelong friends, many brought together after experiencing cancer themselves or seeing cancer impact family and friends.
Since it’s inception the rally has been the largest fundraiser for the Cancer Council nationally.
Shitbox Rally is a dedicated fundraising event for cancer research with funds going to Cancer Council.
Cancer Council is one of the largest non-government funders of cancer research in Australia. We conduct and fund research studies across all cancers and all stages of the cancer journey.
Thanks to the community funds raised such as Shitbox Rally we can fund world-class research that reduces the impact of cancer for everyone.
$41 million over the past 13 years has been raised by Box Rallies to date, supporting ground-breaking projects such as:
These projects wouldn’t be possible without your support.
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