Update from the 2024 annual fundraiser
October 2024
The 2024 Anika Foundation fundraising event was another success in both awareness and fundraising.
The Anika Foundation
What we do
The Anika Foundation was set up in 2005 to raise funds for the purposes of supporting research into adolescent depression and suicide. Depression and suicide have become one of the largest (but least supported) medical and social problems of our time.
In Donations
In Scholarships
50%
mental issues
we experience will have started by age 14
19.9%
11 to 17 years
experience high or very high levels of psychological distress
1 in 10
young people
aged 12 to 17 years have engaged in self-harm
392
deaths
by suicide among people aged 0 to 24 years in 2023
Anika’s Story
On 17 May 2004 Anika was at home studying for a major mathematics assessment for the HSC to be held the next day. Anika left letters to her parents and friends apologising and explaining to them that she could not cope any more with the pressure of the HSC, along with an issue with a friend.
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The 2021 Anika Foundation fund raiser
August 2021 EventOn 14 September 2021 we will hold our annual fundraiser with RBA Governor Philip Lowe, supported by National Australia Bank, and Australian Business Economists.
Due to Covid 19, we cannot hold the event live, and so instead the Foundation may run a huge interactive Zoom conference. Last year, this was quite brilliantly executed by ABE, raising $47,623.
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Michelle Tye joins the Board
January 2021
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Michelle Tye of the Black Dog Institute (Senior Research Fellow) to the Board. Michelle is a specialist in suicide prevention research, with a focus on young people.