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Ride, move, host or create
The Spring Challenge is back!
Take on a personal challenge this October – your way, your pace, your choice - and raise funds for families facing the heartbreak of losing a child. From riding your bike every day, to running your first 10k, to swimming laps, baking, or painting… every challenge helps.
Register now for the Spring Challenge and help ensure no family walks their journey of grief alone.
1. Sign up
Register for free and choose your challenge.
Walk, run, cycle, go without something or even take up a new hobby!
2. Fundraise
Set up your fundraising page and ask your friends, family, and colleagues to get behind you. Every dollar makes a difference.
3. Challenge
Take on your challenge and know you’re helping children and families cared for by the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Choose your challenge!
This spring, take on a personal challenge and make a difference for families facing the toughest of times.
Break a habit (like your daily coffee), take on a fitness challenge (5k a day.... backwards) or try your hand at something creative.
Whatever you choose, rally your community and help raise vital funds to support children and families being cared for by your Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Random Challenge Generator!
Ready for a challenge but can’t decide? Pick a random card and reveal your next adventure!
Your challenge brings care, comfort and hope
Each year, around 100 families in our hospital community face the devastating heartbreak of losing their child. By joining the Spring Challenge, you can make sure no family walks their journey of grief alone.
Our Alongside Grief and Loss program has already helped 78 families since its launch. This October, when you take on your own personal challenge - whether you ride, move, host or create - you’ll be fundraising to ensure that every family in our hospital community, no matter the circumstances, receives bereavement care and wraparound support when they need it most.
Sam's legacy
The Cycle 4 Sam Spring Challenge is inspired by Sam Roberts and the remarkable legacy his family has created. Sam's parents, Marty and Michelle, wanted anyone, anywhere to be able to take on a challenge of their choice, turning personal goals into lasting impact.
Sam was a cheeky, happy baby with a gentle soul. At just 20 months old, Sam was diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Disease Type C - a rare, degenerative condition with no cure. After spending two years of his life at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Sam passed away surrounded by his family in April 2005, just a few months before his fifth birthday.
Since then, the Roberts family and the Cycle 4 Sam community have raised over $1 million for the WCH Foundation. This support has helped countless families who are cared for by the Paediatric Palliative Care Service through special initiatives, such as Art Therapy, the Sam Roberts Family Care Room, and the Laklinyeri Beach House.
The Spring Challenge honours Sam’s life and helps other families receive the same care and compassion Sam’s family did.
Be part of the incredible Cycle 4 Sam community
Join any of the following teams or create your own team to help reach our fundraising goal of $25,000 to support children and families cared for by our Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
FAQs
The Cycle 4 Sam Spring Challenge is a major community fundraising event led by Marty and Michelle Roberts in support of the Sam Roberts Family Fund at the Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation. It is dedicated to the memory of Sam Roberts who passed away on April 19, 2005 at the age of 4 years. Take on a Spring Challenge of your choice to help raise vital funds to support families when they need it most. You can walk, run, cycle, go without something or even take up a new hobby – anything you’d like during the challenge period.
When is the start date?
When:
1 October – 31 October 2025.
What:
Take on a challenge of your choice. You can walk, run, cycle, go without something or even take up a new hobby – anything you’d like from 1 October – 31 October 2025.
Where:
Anywhere you like. Your challenge, your way.
Why:
Support the patients who rely on the Women’s and Children’s Health Network.
All funds raised through the Cycle 4 Sam Spring Challenge will support the Sam Roberts Family Fund at the Women’s & Children’s Hospital Foundation. This fund has supported a wide range of patient and family care projects. Currently, this fund is supporting the Alongside: Grief and Loss Program – a new initiative at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital that provides bereavement care for all families experiencing the death of a child.
