With over 3,000 staff and covering an area a quarter the size of Victoria, Bendigo Health is a 678 bed service that treats over 34,000 in-patients, deals with over 42,000 emergency attendances and 1,100 babies are born each year. These services are complemented by a 60-bed rehabilitation unit, eight bed critical care unit and five operating theatres where around 10,000 surgical procedures are performed annually.

The organisation provides services in emergency, maternity, women's health, medical imaging, pathology, rehabilitation, community services, residential aged care, psychiatric care, community dental, hospice, palliative care, cardiology, cancer services and renal dialysis to the people of the Loddon Mallee region.

The three main campuses of Bendigo Health, the Bendigo hospital and Anne Caudle Centre campuses and the John Bomford Centre are in Bendigo, with many services extended to regional settings including areas such as Mildura, Echuca, Swan Hill, Kyneton and Castlemaine.

Bendigo Toyota supports Bendigo Health by providing a vehicle for their fundraising department to assist in their fundraising activities.

Visit Bendigo Health Foundation for more details.

Jeans Day

Bendigo Toyota also supports the Bendigo Health Foundation by having a casual jeans day on the first Friday of every month.

A BBQ is provided for staff and the general public at 12:00pm here at Bendigo Toyota - all we ask for is a gold coin donation, and you're welcome to join the festivities from 12:00pm. Come in and help to make a difference to the local community.

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Club History

The Bendigo Spirit joined the WNBL for the 2007/08 season. The Spirit is based in Bendigo and enjoys strong community, local business and media support in the local area. The town has a strong basketball reputation with local leagues and associations. The Spirit is lead by World Champion Opal Kristi Harrower who is also the General Manager for the team. Bendigo Toyota is proud to support this successful team and wishes it all the best for the season.

Visit Bendigo Spirit's website for more details.

The OTIS Inspiration

The Otis Foundation was inspired by Judy Burley (1963 - 2000). Judy was a teacher with a passion for social justice who was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 29. She had a vision to deliver the peace, nurturing and comfort she found in nature to others faced with a similar challenge.

About The OTIS Foundation

OTIS are a small but rapidly expanding not-for-profit organisation delivering tangible assistance at a grass roots level to Australians from all backgrounds and all walks of life. They operate without discrimination, with a focus on supporting women with breast cancer.

About Breast Cancer

Every day 36 Australian women will be told they have breast cancer and seven will lose their lives to the disease.
One in every nine Australian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer by the age of 85.

Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer among Australian women.

The OTIS Foundation Vision

To reduce the psychological impact on those living with breast cancer, their families and communities through the provision of a national network of quality retreats provided at no accommodation cost.

The OTIS Foundation Mission

To provide sanctuaries to nurture those facing the challenges of living with breast cancer.

Paul & Sue De Araugo have been long time supporters and friends of OTIS and assist in fundraising.

In 2010 more than 450 women with breast cancer stay at an OTIS retreat.

Visit The OTIS Foundation website for more details.

Bendigo Toyota began their relationship with Star FM in 2004, during this time there has been various breakfast shows and various promotional vehicles and the current breakfast show team of AL & AD are out and about in the most unique promotional vehicle yet “IVAN the Russian van from Japan”. This Toyota Hiace can’t be missed with its unique sign writing and it’s fully decked out interior which is set up as a mobile radio studio with shag pile carpet, dvd players, a huge stereo and neon lights etc etc. Ivan has travelled far and wide and AD even took this pimped out vehicle on a road trip to the Queensland schoolies at the end of 2010. Ivan has been seen at many local events and was instrumental in delivering much needed supplies to Central Victoria’s flood victims.