Send a Patient on a Holiday from Hospital

Buy a boarding pass – $100 (opens in a new tab)

Chimera Airways · Holiday from Hospital

Now boarding: a Holiday from Hospital, anywhere in Australia or New Zealand.

Your digital boarding pass helps fly a patient somewhere they love, filmed in 360° and delivered to their hospital bed.

Buy a boarding pass – $100 (opens in a new tab)

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Chimera Airways $100 digital boarding pass for Holiday from Hospital: buy a boarding pass (opens in a new tab)

Donate and help send a patient on a virtual holiday from hospital. Photo of founder Damien Thompson in hospital with a QR code to donate

First class

Fly a whole holiday: sponsorship for businesses.

Sponsorship money goes only towards the travel and accommodation needed to film each experience.

Supporter

$500

Your logo on our website

Sponsor for $500

Champion

$1,000

Your logo on our website
Your logo across our social media channels

Sponsor for $1,000

★ Greatest impact

Holiday Sponsor

$5,000

Funds the travel and accommodation to film one patient’s requested experience
Your logo on our website and social media
A digital logo in that experience’s promotional video

Please note: Each $5,000 Holiday from Hospital covers one destination per patient. Within that destination, our team films a range of locations to create a varied, immersive VR experience. Destinations are available across Australia and New Zealand.

Sponsor a holiday

Sponsorship packages include recognition, so they are generally claimable as a business marketing expense rather than a tax-deductible donation. Please check with your accountant.

Book a 15-minute sponsor chat

Chimera Legacy Foundation is a registered DGR charity: gifts of $2 or more, with nothing received in return, are tax-deductible.

Destinations

Where your boarding pass flies them

Every patient picks their own destination. We travel there and film it for them in immersive 360° virtual reality.

Palm-fringed beach and turquoise water on Hamilton Island in the Whitsundays, Queensland

To the beach

A relaxing Airbnb stay of their choice, so they can enjoy the feeling of a real break away.

Parents cuddling their young child close in a warm family embrace

Back home

Their own home, so they can feel relaxed and calm in the company of their family.

Packed crowd watching an Australian Rules football match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground

Into the crowd

A game they love, so they feel part of the crowd and connected to their community while isolated in their hospital room.

Who needs a holiday more than someone in hospital?

Proven on the ward, not just on paper.

Our program targets the stress and isolation felt by longer-stay patients, aiming to reduce anxiety, improve sleep quality and boost morale.

Validated by research

A feasibility study at Brisbane’s largest hospital.
Read the feasibility study →
Australia & New Zealand

Youth cancer centres equipped across both countries, working towards equity of access across Australia.
See our VR pods in the news →
As seen on national news

Credit: 9 News

See the program in action on the ward.
Watch the Nine News story →