Finnspiration Smiles Fund

The Finnspiration Smiles Fund funds projects to improve the experience of kids undergoing medical treatment for cancer. Our goal with this Fund is to help kids just be kids, to help kids like Finn to run, jump, bounce, dance, sing, smile, love, and ride while in treatment.

The Finnspiration Smiles fund is made up of donations made by schools participating in PJs with a Purpose events, kids donating birthday money, and funds raised at bake sales and other kid-spired fundraisers, as well as funds given by larger groups such as Hockey Fights Cancer and Telus Communications.

We take what we have learned about Finn’s joy of life and during our family’s experience of kid’s cancer treatment and combine that with the Finnspiration funds to create and implement changes designed to put smiles on the faces of kids going through treatment today.

Funds from the Finnspiration Smiles Fund and family input from the Team Finn Foundation have been dedicated in past years to making the experience of receiving inpatient or outpatient treatment at the BC Children’s Hospital and radiation treatment at the BC Cancer Agency as calming, distracting and as stress-free as possible.

Beginning in 2024, the Finnspiration Smiles Fund has contributed to help fund the Treats & Treasures Cart in partnership with Kindred Foundation and the EVAN Foundation.  The Cart provides both delicious and distracting treats for kids in oncology related treatments and for all kids admitted on the pediatric unit at the Surrey Memorial Hospital in BC.