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For a limited time, add just $2 to your booking in the extras tab to support the Starlight Children's Foundation. Your small donation can have a big impact, bringing joy to seriously ill children.
At select airport locations only, purchase our limited Starlight & Europcar colouring book with all proceeds going to the charity. Each book is filled with fun, creative designs and uplifting messages, perfect for kids and families.
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Starlight’s Programs
When a child is diagnosed with a serious illness, a family’s world is turned upside down. With life now consumed by hospital and treatment, it can be scary and overwhelming.
At Starlight we know happiness matters to sick kids and their families, helping them get through their toughest times.
As Australia’s broadest reaching and most reputable children’s charity*, we’ve worked alongside health professionals for over 35 years, helping ‘sick kids’, simply be ‘kids’.
From our Starlight Express Rooms and Captain Starlight programs to Captain Starlight’s fully live and interactive online home, Planet Starlight, sick kids can take a break from their medical treatment and enjoy the fun and laughter of Captain Starlight from any hospital in Australia.
Our Livewire program creates vital age-appropriate opportunities for creativity and connection for teens living with a serious illness or disability, and our Star- light Wishgranting program provides sick kids and their families with a once in a lifetime experience to look forward to.
Our Healthier Futures Initiative supports better health outcomes for remote Indigenous communities.
Every Starlight program creates much-needed happiness for sick kids and their families. Happiness helps sick kids cope better with the pain and stress of treatment, and helps families feel more connected and positive about what lies ahead.
That’s why Starlight exists. Because happiness matters.
*Reptrak Charity Reputation Index, 2022
Colouring book only available at the following locations: Melbourne Airport, Sydney Airport, Brisbane Airport, Gold Coast Airport & Cairns Airport