Maintaining the Integrity of One Day

One Day itself is a group of 24 hour golf events, not a charity, that are run for the benefit of Love Your Sister and their partnership with The Garvan Institute.

In 2023, LYS issued ONE DAY with an approval to fundraise on their behalf, and a commitment in writing that LYS would pass on 100% of the funds raised by ONE DAY to The MoST Rural and Regional Expansion: Omico and the Australian Genomic Cancer Medicine Program. The arrangement between ONE DAY and LYS was predicated on an agreement that no part of the individual donations received by ONE DAY golfers would be used to pay for the costs of hosting ONE DAY events, and that no part of the overall donation received by LYS would be used to pay for its operational expenses or costs of fundraising.

The LYS commitment to MoST is in the form of a grant. As such there is a formal funding agreement which outlines a research guarantee and the delivery of progress reports for assessment by the LYS Board of Directors. These reports take the form of monthly meetings with Samuel Johnson OAM and the Love Your Sister Chairperson, Dr Lucy Freeman; as well as written annual Progress Reports and acquittals.

The Molecular Screening and Therapeutics (MoST) clinical trials personalise experimental treatments based on an individual’s unique cancer genetic profile. Because of this, eligibility for participation is independent of where the cancer arises in the body. In these trials, rather than focusing on a tumour’s location, such as the ovaries or pancreas, patients who have a shared harmful genetic variant, are treated with a drug that may target the variant, even if they have different types of cancer.

Clinical trials are generally used to test a new treatment, with some patients getting the new drug and the others getting an existing drug or a placebo. One-third of GCMP patients will have a biomarker matched to a targeted therapy, while those remaining may be directed on to other trials or therapies, including immunotherapies.

More information can be found here - https://www.garvan.org.au/research/collaboration/genomic-cancer-medicine-program

Please find attached a copy of each years confirmation of audit to ensure comfort that all funds have been donated per the agreements above: