Touch the Sky 2021

On March 21st 2021 we held our first memorial fundraiser event in Rolleston, Selwyn. Touch the Sky was created in memory of the beautiful, resilient Nora Guise who fought cancer from age 5 until she passed away in 2020 just short of her 7th birthday. We wanted to create a unique, fun, family event to honour Nora and to raise much needed funds for the Child Cancer Foundation. And we did! For our first event we set a target of $5,000 and we smashed it raising $12,056.93. We had 148 people across 30 teams participate in surprise pit stops with unknown tasks and clues to solve which saw them create a hobby horse and ride it around a real horse arena as a team, learn a ballet routine and perform it, undertake a challenging army assault course, solve a maths question and dig and dig for a tiny elephant in a sandpit. It ended with a colour dash at Foster Park with sausages, ice cream and an awards ceremony.

We are now planning for 2022 and like all amazing community events we are hoping to build on this year's success.

Touch the Sky was SO much fun for my family and I to participate in in 2021!
The kids had an absolute ball, and knowing we were raising money in Nora’s name for the Child Cancer Foundation really motivated us to sparkle as brightly as we could and give it our all.
Hands down the most exciting fundraiser we have experienced, we will 100% be participating each and every year! Laura