Bash FAQs

You can register with the Fun Raisers Car Club. As this is a club rego, there are restrictions on how you can use your vehicle.  Contact Mal Johnson, Fun Raisers Car Club on 0412 737 780.

Accommodation is normally booked for participants for one or two nights of the Bash and this is included in the provisions levy. For the 2018 Variety Bash, the provisions levy includes the final night accommodation in Townsville.

Participants are provided with an accommodation list in order to book hotels/motels in the towns we visit. Alternatively, a camping area with facilities is organised for participants wishing to camp. Sometimes a small fee is required for this camping. If the campground doesn’t provide adequate toilets and showers, we provide our own block of toilets and showers so participants have the amenities they need, ensuring camping is a great experience for all. 

All breakfasts, lunches* (excluding lunch on the lay day in Haliday Bay) and dinners are catered for you during the Variety Bash and included in your provisions levy. 

Yes. Prior to the start of the Variety Bash you need to attend Registration and Scrutineering. Registration is the time when you collect your merchandise packs, sign Indemnity Forms and finalise any remaining fundraising or outstanding payments. Scrutineering is the time to have the final check on your vehicle by our Mobile Workshop crews and Chief Scrutineer.

Variety Queensland will supply you with a number of event decals that will need to be placed on your vehicle for the Variety Bash. These are:

• 2 x Door Panels for the front door on both the driver and passenger side of the car.
• 1 x Front Windscreen sponsor decal – 1 x Back Windscreen ‘Variety Bash…ya gotta do it’ decal.
• Various sponsor decals to be placed around the vehicle where they will fit

Yes. You will be need to fill in the ‘Request to Fundraise’ form prior to the event and submit this to the Variety office. This includes a very brief Risk Assessment that is required by our insurance company. Once received, we can issue you with a copy of the insurance. It is important to note that the Insurance certificate is invalid for an event if there is no accompanying ‘Request to Fundraise’ form.  Submit your form online here. 

As many as is legally allowed – everyone needs to have a seatbelt. We recommend no more than three in a vehicle, however we do have teams of four or five.

Each team that enters is required to pay an entry fee of $385 inc GST and commits to raising a minimum of $8,500, but on average teams raise twice as much because of all the support we provide. In addition, each team will need to pay for their fuel, repairs, maintenance and any parts they need to buy.

Each team member will also be required to pay a provisions levy, which covers the cost of meals, one night’s accommodation and the merchandise kit. The 2018 provisions levy is:

The RAAF, long-time supporters of the Variety Bash, provide baggage trucks which are available to all Bashers to load excess luggage – specifically swags and giveaways for the kids. The cost is $25 per item and each item will be given a luggage tag.  Items should weigh not weight more the 16kg.    

Spare parts cannot be carried on the baggage truck.

Yes. There are six Mobile Workshop (MW) teams who attend the Bash and are fully equipped to handle repairs.  In addition, Auxiliary Workshop (AW) vehicles provide minor mechanical support. Each AW is required to be associated with a Bash team, raise a minimum of $4,500, have a mechanically minded person travel in the vehicle and must stop for any team experiencing mechanical difficulty.

This is a difficult question to answer as every vehicle has different consumption rates and because we do travel on many dirt roads.

Each trip is generally between 3,000km and 3,500km in total length and fuel in some out of the way places can be higher in cost – so between $1.80 per litre and $2.00 per litre. If you know roughly how many kilometres per litre of fuel you can travel, this should help you set a fuel budget based on the above figures.

No. We encourage you to raise as much as you can for the Bash that you are registered for, as ultimately that means you are helping more of Queensland’s special kids.  If you cannot participate in this year’s Bash, you can however register for and commence fundraising for next year’s event now, and we will soft credit your fundraising from this year’s Bash to next year’s Bash only.

All donations are non-refundable and non-transferable once processed. If you’d like to split a donation or proceeds from a fundraising event with another car, this must be done at the time the funds are being deposited. After that, we cannot move funds from one car’s account to another.

Before we hit the road on the Bash, there are a number of things we need to do to make sure your vehicle is up to scratch. To find out all the scrutineering instructions for the 2018 Bash,  click here