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Jeans for Genes Day 2025

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ORGANIZATION: Children's Medical Research Institute

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A fantastic opportunity to meet new people and have some fun, while giving back to the community by helping to raise funds and awareness for the Children’s Medical Research Institute to support research into birth defects and genetic disorders.
What is Jeans for Genes Day? 1 in 20 kids are born with a genetic disease or birth defect. That’s 1 kid in every classroom. Jeans for Genes Day will be on Thursday 7th August 2025. This year, we will have hundreds of wonderful volunteers join us to hit the streets and train stations across the Greater Sydney Region to help raise vital funds for research that will improve lives by finding cures for children’s genetic diseases. Why not join them to make a difference in children’s lives?

How can I make a difference? Join the team as a volunteer selling Jeans for Genes Day merchandise, collecting donations and raising awareness in the community. Each volunteer shift is 3 hours long (early morning, morning or afternoon) in a location of your choice as an individual or in a group.
  • We are still recruiting for various locations across Sydney CBD
  • Various shift times in the early morning (ideal for student or before work), midday and afternoon
  • Whether you have a couple of hours to give or half a day, there is the perfect shift for you!
What we’re looking for?
  • Strong communicators to interact with the public
  • Comfortable selling merchandise, handling cash and using a eftpos machine
  • Enthusiastic and willingness to participate
  • Friendly nature and enjoy working in a team
Next Steps
  • Visit https://www.cmrijeansforgenes.org.au/get-involved/jeans-for-genes/volunteer to find out more and to register for a shift.
  • For enquiries please contact Trudi via volunteer@jeansforgenes.org.au or call 0418 149 295.

3 Shifts

  • Thu Aug 07, 2025 - 06:00 AM to 09:00 AM AEST - Spots available: 10+
    Great for corporates! Complete your volunteering before work!
  • Thu Aug 07, 2025 - 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM AEST - Spots available: 10+
    Get a great start to your day by volunteering!
  • Thu Aug 07, 2025 - afternoon / 12:00 PM to 03:00 PM AEST - Spots available: 10+
    A great way to end the day and jump into your weekend.
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About Children's Medical Research Institute

Location:

214 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW 2145, AU

Mission Statement

Jeans for Genes is the iconic fundraising campaign of Children’s Medical Research Institute. Jeans for Genes was established in 1994 by Children’s Medical Research Institute to fund revolutionary research that helps diagnose, understand, and find cures or treatments for conditions affecting kids, including genetic diseases, cancer, and epilepsy. 1 in 20 kids is born with a genetic disease or birth defect. You likely know and care about someone affected. Genetic diseases are one of the leading causes of death in kids under four and the main cause of ongoing hospitalisation.

Description

You can help the work being done at Children's Medical Research Institute by signing up to raise funds or sell merchandise by volunteering.

We know you can make a difference. Here are a few of the things you have helped Jeans for Genes and Children’s Medical Research Institute to achieve since 1994:
    • Established an ongoing 'vector’ engineering program that is designing new ways to cure many genetic diseases using gene therapy
    • Discovered a cure for genetic liver disease, with clinical trials about to begin
    • Partnered with The Children’s Hospital at Westmead on the first-ever gene therapy clinical trial in Australia, which corrected SCIDX1-deficiency (boy in the bubble disease)
    • Found a single genetic defect can cause cleft lip and palate
    • Discovered dozens of genes causing blindness and introduced genetic testing for these and other conditions, so families can be counselled
    • Genetic identification of previously uncharacterised types of aplastic anaemia, which now helps children and teens survive bone marrow transplant to treat the disease
    • Discovered a new class of drugs to treat the 1 in 3 epileptics not helped by current medication (now in pre-clinical trials)
    • Launched a world-first project to revolutionise cancer diagnosis and personalise treatment planning

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Health & Medicine
Children & Youth, Community, Health & Medicine

WHEN

Thu Aug 07, 2025
06:00 AM - 03:00 PM
This opportunity has 3 shifts

WHERE

Martin Place, Wynyard Station, Barrack StCentral Station, Town Hall Station, Parramatta StaAustralia, NSW 2000Australia

(-33.87085,151.20734)
 

DATE POSTED

April 29, 2025

SKILLS

  • Customer Acquisition
  • Fundraising
  • Merchandising
  • Retail / Sales
  • CSR / Volunteer Coordination
  • Community Outreach

GOOD FOR

  • Teens
  • People 55+
  • Public Groups
  • Private Groups

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 16
  • Orientation or Training
  • 3 hours
  • No experience is necessary! Under 18 will need to be accompanied by a guardian.

Private Group Details

  • Group Size Range 1 - 50+
  • Event can be held at a volunteer group location (e.g. office, park)
  • No Donation

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