Patrons of Country Hope
Country Hope is grateful for all the support received from our patrons who dedicate time to help provide important support to the lives of all the country children diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses.
Rod Dunlop - founding Board member
Rod is a Country Hope founding member, with his vision leading to our establishment in 2003.
Babs Donaldson OAM - founding Board member
Since 2003 Babs has thrown herself whole-heartedly into Country Hope – in 2025 she was presented with Country Hope’s highest service recognition an Infinity Pin - signifying her endless influence on the charity.
Steve Dwyer - founding Board member
Steve was a Country Hope Board member from the charity’s inception to his retirement in 2016.
Richard Allsopp
Richard has been a long-time generous financial contributor to Country Hope. Initially, the philanthropic founder of Rundles Auctions paid the rent on the charity’s office space in Wagga Wagga. He later took on the mortgage payments of its current-day Blake St premises, eventually paying the loan off.
John Studdert
John was a long-serving Country Hope Chairman as well as a former Chief Executive Officer
Tammy & Gavin Gilbert
Darlington Point couple Tammy & Gavin Gilbert are the founders of the Riverina Outback Rally.
Launched in 2017, the much-loved event has raised in excess of $3.94m for Country Hope.
Lynne & Arthur de Jong
Arthur and Lynne have been generous financial supporters of Country Hope over many years.
Vera Entwistle OAM
Camp Quality founder Vera Entwistle helped inspire the creation of Country Hope, giving her blessing to the charity’s establishment in 2003 to run a camp for country children diagnosed withe cancer.