General News
14 November, 2025
$1800 raised for RFDS
DETERMINATION and support have led Camperdown’s Landon Ross the raise just over $1800 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) as part of the annual Oceans to Outback fundraising challenge.
Western District Newspapers reported in August Landon would take part in the annual challenge, which saw 21,666 people across Australia participate.
All funds raised from the challenge go directly towards the service, which provides access to emergency and primary health care to regional, rural and remote areas of Australia, flying 112,839 people each year for medical treatment.
Landon extended his gratitude to everyone who supported his walk over October.
“Thank you to all of my beautiful sponsors for helping me to raise a total of $1836 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Oceans to Outback Challenge,” he said.
“I hope I have inspired people to support their favourite fundraisers and help other people.
“You have to put in a lot of effort – with effort, you can do anything if you try.
“I surprised myself with how much I did.
“Thank you to my grandmother and my mother for being my support crew and thank you to everyone who donated.”
His efforts will enable RFDS to purchase 46 laryngoscopes – used to help in intubating and ventilating a patient – 29 lifesaving medical chests for remote and regional communities and 26 defibrillator pads, which are used with a machine to monitor a patient’s cardiac health.
Landon’s proud mother Nicole Ross said she had been humbled by the community’s support of Landon’s efforts.
“We originally aimed for between $200-$300 – which we would have been really happy with – but we kept meeting the target very quickly,” she said.
“We were so humbled and blown away by how much people supported him.
“Landon registered to do 87 kilometres – one kilometre for each aircraft – we had to keep extending our fundraising goal.
“We met the kilometre challenge by halfway through the month – we decided to keep walking and do extra.”
By the end of the month, Landon had completed 122 kilometres over 31 days – a feat both Landon and Ms Ross were proud of.
Ms Ross said the challenge had also been a journey of learning.
“When you register to join the challenge, they give you a link and you can download an app which allows you to monitor how may donations have come in for the RFDS, how many kilometres you’ve done on each day and where you’ve travelled,” she said.
“It also gives you access to different stories about people who have needed the RFDS and their experiences.
“It has been very interesting to learn about these things along the way.
“This is an annual challenge – we strongly encourage others to book it in their calendars and get involved in next year’s program.”
Donations to the challenge are still open and can be made online at www.oceanstooutback.org.au/fundraisers/landonross.
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