The History
One Day was founded by Rodney Frost on 17th May 2023 after the floating the concept to a group of mates at Castle Hill Country Club, following a series of devastating losses of loved ones from Cancer.
Two weeks prior, 3rd May 2023, his golf partner Mark Johnston had passed away from Cancer after being diagnosed four weeks prior. He had thought he had a sore back from work or golf and it turned out to be a tumour on his spine.
On Christmas Day 2022, Rodney’s sister in law, Alison Longmire was diagnosed with Cancer, that was later diagnosed as terminal. Absolutely horrific that a 40 year old woman with a great husband and two beautiful children were faced with this.
Nine Days prior, 16 December 2023, Rodney’s business partner in The Philippines lost her husband, Mario Monteiro, after a short battle with Cancer. His two daughters, Margaux and Graciela, also work in the business which is a true family business. He also left behind Gerome, his only son. Mario was 63. One of the most friendly jovial people you could ever meet.
Since this event was founded Alison Longmire has since passed away. She left us on the 16th August 2023. Alison was the most selfless person in the World and was actually the first volunteer for One Day to put her name forward, despite her health. Devastating for all of the family. Things won’t be the same again, no matter how hard we try.
As he reached out to people in his network for support and to talk about life in general it became evident that so many people were going through similar situations with family and friends. This included multiple other members of the golf club that had passed recently.
Something had to be done and the hunt began to find a charity to partner with for the long term. A charity that was passionate and driven to ensure the funds that were raised by the participants were well spent. A charity that had no administration costs and could ensure that all funds went in to research of the precision medicine required to cure Cancer.
Rodney was at his sister in laws, visiting Alison, with his family and was given a copy of a great printed book called The Story So Far. Alison’s name was on one of the pages thanks to one of her friends who had been good enough to contact Love Your Sister and to request her name be included. As he read the book further he read about the cause and the alignment to everything that was important. After all, anyone who unicycles 1000 kilometres around Australia for vanquishing Cancer is passionate.
He emailed Sam that night, they spoke on the Monday and Sam ensured Rodney that all funds are given to researchers that have legally binding agreements seeing no money going to administrative costs at all. It all goes to research!
Without the unwavering support of the board at the Castle Hill Country Club in 2023 this would have stayed as an idea that was never executed. A special thanks to Steve Kemp who really took the concept under his wing and championed it with the board and broader golf club committees.
Inaugural 2023 event raised $104,379 with every cent going directly to Cancer Research
