The RFDS in QLD
Leave a Gift in Your Will
The Royal Flying Doctor Service is a vital lifeline for families living across regional, rural, and remote Queensland. When you or someone you love faces a medical emergency, every kilometre from care matters. The Flying Doctor can be the difference between life and death — and so can your support.
Our story began in 1928, when Reverend John Flynn leased our first aircraft with the support of a Gift in Will from someone who believed in his vision. Since then, both our organisation and the need for our services have grown. By leaving a Gift in your Will, you help ensure we can be there for future generations. Alongside our pilots, doctors, and flight nurses, you are an essential part of our life-saving team. Thank you for the difference you make every day.
Meredith Staib
Chief Executive Officer
Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland Section)
Why your gift matters
Every 7 minutes, the Flying Doctor provides care to someone in need across Queensland. Our flight nurses and doctors can reach them in time because people like you believe no one should be too far from help. Not now, not ever.
Leaving a gift in your Will keeps that promise alive—a story of care and courage that began almost a century ago.
1. Keep our aircraft flying
Your gift can help purchase, maintain, and fit out the aircraft that bring life-saving care to remote communities.
2. Deliver essential healthcare
You can help provide primary health care services to families and communities who would otherwise go without.
3. Build for the future
Your support can strengthen vital infrastructure, like new and upgraded bases so the Flying Doctor can keep care moving across Queensland.
Get in touch
To receive a Gifts in Will brochure or speak with a member of our friendly team, please complete the form below. Your enquiry is completely confidential, and we’d be honoured to support you.
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Graham’s story
“Having been flown by the Royal Flying Doctor Service several times, Ray understood just how vital they were to people living in Queensland,” says Graham. “Leaving them a gift in his Will was his way of giving back—supporting the doctors, nurses and pilots he admired, and helping ensure life-saving care would continue for future generations. Ray believed in kindness, and through his gift, his legacy lives on in every life saved.”
Pictured left: Rockhampton Flight Nurse Carolyn Overy with Ray Grace
Call our Gift in Will Team for a friendly confidential chat
It’s our pleasure to assist you. Gifts in Wills are crucial in enabling the RFDS (Queensland Section) to provide a wide range of healthcare services to those living in remote, rural and regional areas. We invite you to contact us for a confidential chat.
Maria Hayes, Relationship Specialist (07) 3860 1168
Michela Everett, Relationship Specialist (07) 3541 4312
Sam Sargisson, Relationship Manager 0475 855 467
Write your Will today
Besides arranging your Will with a preferred solicitor or the Public Trustee Office, you also have the option to support us through online Will service providers, Willed and Gathered Here.
