Our Mission Partner
Ronald McDonald House Charities is a global charity founded in 1974 in the USA as a result of the foresight of an oncologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr Audrey Evans envisioned a place where families could live and get proper rest away from the ward while their children were undergoing treatment. Funds to build the first House were raised by the local McDonald’s restaurant and in exchange for their support was named ‘Ronald McDonald House’.
The first Ronald McDonald House in Australia was opened in Camperdown, NSW in 1981. In 1990, Ronald McDonald House Charities WA opened its first House in Subiaco providing a much needed home away from home for regional families with sick children.
McDonald’s Corporate, Licensee’s and their customers continue to support the charity today. Here in Western Australia, McDonald’s Licensees and their employees across the state are active, passionate supporters of families cared for by RMHC WA.
Each year, McDonald’s Licensees and employees across the state demonstrate extraordinary support for WA’s sick kids and their families by supporting
- Ride For Sick Kids
- McHappy Day
- Hike for the House
- Employee volunteering at Ronald McDonald House Nedlands
Acknowledgement of Country
Ronald McDonald House Charities WA acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous Australia. We recognise their enduring and continuing connection to the sky, lands, waters, and culture of this land.