Personal life and childhood
Carrie Bickmore was born 3d of December 1980 in Adelaide, Australia. Carrie was the only child of loving and loyal parents Brian L. Bickmore and Jennie Bickmore-brand. In her early years Carrie and her family had moved to Perth. She had attended an Anglican girl’s school and studied journalism at Curtin University of technology and graduated in 2000. In 2005 Carrie had married Greg Lange and gave birth to Oliver in 2007. Greg had died in 2010 from brain cancer. After her husband’s death he had taken a leave from all jobs. She hadn’t appeared on television for several months. On March 18th 2015 she gave birth to her second child with her partner Chris walker.
Career
Carrie started her career as a newsreader for 92.9FM in Perth where she was needed as an emergency fill in for a sick co-worker. After this …show more content…
In her acceptance speech she gave her two minutes to talk about brain cancer. She said that there is no funding for this disease which means more people will die so something has to be done about it. Soon after her speech she went on to form Carries beanies 4 brain cancer which aims to raise desperately needed funds towards research into the horrible disease that is brain cancer. Carrie launched her beanies 4 brain cancer with her first fundraiser which was brainbeats2015 concert which featured Ed Sheeran and Passenger. She brings out 4 new female and male beanie’s each year selling at 20 dollars. Carrie bickmore has partnered with Mercedes-Benzes, Australia post, cotton-on and twinning’s tea. In 2016, Carrie's first batch of 25,000 beanies went on sale and sold out within the first three days. Over the space of 3 years Carrie has raised 4.5 million from her beanies and donations dollars which all profits have gone to cancer
Carrie Bickmore was born 3d of December 1980 in Adelaide, Australia. Carrie was the only child of loving and loyal parents Brian L. Bickmore and Jennie Bickmore-brand. In her early years Carrie and her family had moved to Perth. She had attended an Anglican girl’s school and studied journalism at Curtin University of technology and graduated in 2000. In 2005 Carrie had married Greg Lange and gave birth to Oliver in 2007. Greg had died in 2010 from brain cancer. After her husband’s death he had taken a leave from all jobs. She hadn’t appeared on television for several months. On March 18th 2015 she gave birth to her second child with her partner Chris walker.
Career
Carrie started her career as a newsreader for 92.9FM in Perth where she was needed as an emergency fill in for a sick co-worker. After this …show more content…
In her acceptance speech she gave her two minutes to talk about brain cancer. She said that there is no funding for this disease which means more people will die so something has to be done about it. Soon after her speech she went on to form Carries beanies 4 brain cancer which aims to raise desperately needed funds towards research into the horrible disease that is brain cancer. Carrie launched her beanies 4 brain cancer with her first fundraiser which was brainbeats2015 concert which featured Ed Sheeran and Passenger. She brings out 4 new female and male beanie’s each year selling at 20 dollars. Carrie bickmore has partnered with Mercedes-Benzes, Australia post, cotton-on and twinning’s tea. In 2016, Carrie's first batch of 25,000 beanies went on sale and sold out within the first three days. Over the space of 3 years Carrie has raised 4.5 million from her beanies and donations dollars which all profits have gone to cancer