Besser BIG FREEZE

2025 DIY Big Freeze

We’re Fundraising for FightMND Besser + Co’s Big Freeze DIY Event – Friday 30th May

📍 Behind the Besser + Co office, Toorak Road
💙 Live Music | BBQ | Footy Players | Ice Bucket Challenge | Community Spirit


I'm taking the plunge in this year's DIY Big Freeze to help FightMND beat the Beast – and I’m doing it in memory of my beautiful dad, Maurice.

In 2010, I lost my dad to Motor Neurone Disease (MND) after he fought a heart-wrenching 18-month battle with this cruel illness. It’s a cause that sits incredibly close to my heart, and this year, my workplace Besser + Co is proudly standing beside me to bring a special community event to life — one that honours his memory and raises vital funds to fight MND.

MND is a progressive and relentless disease that slowly takes away a person’s ability to move, speak, eat, and eventually breathe. The average life expectancy after diagnosis is just 27 months — and still, there is no cure.

That’s why we’re bringing the local community together on Friday, 30th May, for a day filled with heart, connection, and purpose. There’ll be live music, a sizzling BBQ, live music and of course — the Ice Bucket Challenge!

We’re calling on everyone to show support in any way they can — whether by donating, attending, or simply sharing our message. Your contribution — big or small — helps improve the lives of those living with MND, supports families through the unimaginable, funds critical research, and brings us closer to finding a cure.

🧊 All proceeds from the BBQ and donations will go directly to FightMND.

We are so grateful to our amazing sponsors who have helped make this event possible:

💙 Lamanna and Sons
💙 Priestley’s Gourmet Delights
💙 The Cake Club
💙 Watson Equipment
💙 Stannards Accountants

Your generosity and support are helping us bring this vision to life, and we truly couldn’t do it without you.


It only takes a minute to donate, but your support will leave a lasting impact.
Together, we can defeat the Beast.

With heartfelt thanks,
Paige de Gruchy & the Besser + Co Team



Thank you to our Sponsors

$515

Amber B

Thank you for fighting for those who no longer can 💙

$500

South Yarra Medical

Keep fighting against MND

$106

Margot Avery

Let’s find a cure! Let’s fight mnd!

$106

Ian Longney

All the best Margot & team - such a great cause.

$106

Bee

💜🩷💜

$106

Real Copy Right

An amazing effort by an amazing team!

$106

Detector Inspector

Great cause Sam!

$104

Desiree Xx

YOU GO FOR IT My beautiful angel xxx SO Proud of you & your dad would be also xxx

$80

Daniel D'souza

Great cause!

$54

Lyn Smith

$54

Thomas Mills

Wahoo!

$54

Carolyn And Alan

Great work team!

$53

Rufaro Chikuwa

$50

Nakita Tate

Such a great cause! :)

$50

Waugh Family

A great cause. Cold but good. 👍

$50

Jessica Mills

Brrrrrrrr!

$50

Chiara Davidson

$50

Jem

So inspirational in so many ways ♥️

$50

Kendyll Van De Ven

I’m so proud to be one of your best friends. If love could have saved them, they would have lived forever ❤️

$36

Anonymous

$33

Sarah Cutajar

Ice ice baby

$30

Anonymous

$6

Darcy Thornton