THIS YEAR, CANCER STOPS WITH ME.
The New Town Toyota Walk for Women’s Cancer benefits women’s cancer research at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research.
This Walk is not a race, it’s a journey with 100% of donations going back to the Perkins to support women's cancer research.
Sign up today and experience an event like no other. With the incredible friendliness of participants you'll walk alongside hundreds of supporters and survivors.
Simply, the Walk can be summed up in one sentence:
“We may start the walk as strangers, but we end it as family.”
HOW DOES IT WORK?
SIGN UP
Sign up today to start your journey.
FUNDRAISE
The minimum fundraising amount is $500 per walker and with the Walk team's help you'll reach your goals.
TRAIN
35km is more than a walk in the park so you need to ease your way up to it.
WALK
Walk your way! Walk 35km over 7 days, complete 35km on event day, or challenge yourself to 42km on the big day.
CELEBRATE
Before, during and after the Walk! We celebrate friendship, cancer battles and sore feet!
SMASH IT
If you raise $2,000 or more, you'll be recogised as a VIP and become a Promenade Club member. Raise $4,000 or more, you'll become a VVIP and join the very exclusive Queen Bees.
WALK YOUR WAY
The New Town Toyota Walk for Women’s Cancer is 35km. But there are a few different routes you can take to complete the full distance:
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Join us for the full experience and complete the 35km on the big day.
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For the serious steppers among us, complete a full marathon by taking the 42km loop!
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Spread your kilometres out and complete your Walk in the seven days leading up to the official Walk day. (Just make sure you complete your final 5km with us on the Walk day so we can all celebrate together!)
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If you’re walking from outside WA, simply complete your 35km from wherever you are.
REWARDS & INCENTIVES
Throughout your Walk experience, you will be encouraged to collect badges for doing certain simple actions. Each badge unlocks a reward that, when combined, creates a Walk comfort pack designed to keep you safe and offer relief from the elements whilst you walk. If you unlock all the badges, you unlock the ‘Surprise, Surprise’ badge that comes with, well… a surprise!
Plus, you can reap even more rewards if you join the Promenade Club or become a Queen Bee!
There are numerous incentives on offer too. Ranging from opportunities to win luxurious experiences, a staycation and much more!
YOUR BADGES
WHAT'S WITH THE BEES?
You'll notice that the humble bee is celebrated here at the Walk for Women’s Cancer.
If you’re wondering what all of the buzz is about, Perkins researchers Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort and her then PhD student Ciara Duffy, made international headlines in 2020 when they discovered that venom from honeybees was found to kill aggressive breast cancer cells.
Their results revealed that honeybee venom rapidly destroyed triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer cells - some of the most hard-to-treat cancer cells.
Since this ground-breaking discovery, the beloved bee has become iconic and symbolised research being undertaken at the Perkins that is supported and funded by the Walk for Women’s Cancer community.
