Kombi of Hope Story
They were very impressed with the big yellow truck and the power it had to promote The Cancer Council NSW and its programs and services as it drove around NSW. They started to ponder how they could harness that power for one of the organisation’s flagship events, Relay For Life, an event that they are very passionate about. They wanted to have their own vehicle to promote Relay For Life but a truck that size was a bit daunting.
“We have just purchased a 1972 kombi camper so that we can restore it and use it to publicise the Cancer Council’s NSW Relay For Life event. We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and want to fightback against this disease that has taken so much from us.
We want to restore our kombi, paint it Relay purple, drive it proudly round the Hunter promoting and publicising this wonderful event in schools, shopping centres and anywhere else they’ll have us. Relay For Life has raised over $460,000 in Newcastle since 2001. This year we want to smash through the half a million dollar mark and are hoping that the kombi will help us achieve this goal.
They never anticipated the amount of support and encouragement they would receive from Kombi Club members. Their idea took root in everyone’s imagination and the Kombi of Hope was born.

