- Feeding Tube Awareness Week will be marked nationally, 4-10 February 2024. In celebration, we are lighting up landmarks purple and blue for tube feeding! We are lighting up as many landmarks as we can to help raise awareness and bring everyone together who has a feeding tube.
- Some locations are lighting up for the entire awareness week (or part of) and some are only able to light up on Tuesday 6 February, what we like to call #TubieTuesday.
- The more landmarks turning purple and blue, the more people we can reach and get talking about tube feeding! Please get in touch if you can help us light up more places (including landmarks in your local area)!
- We encourage you to visit these landmarks if you can on the light up night/s and take a photo (safely) and share it on social media to help shine the light on tube feeding. Please use the hashtags #FTAWLightUp, #FTAW2024 and #TubieTuesday and tag us in your posts!
Thank you for supporting our #FTAWLightUp campaign!
We loved seeing your photos of landmarks lit up purple and blue for tube feeding awareness during Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2024.
Photos contributed by: Delma, Kate, Mackay Regional Council, Marion, Parliament of South Australia, Rhys, Sammie, Sarah, Suncorp Stadium and The Bell Tower.
Why purple and blue?
Purple is a common colour of feeding tube supplies and blue represents what flows through the tube, be it formula, blends, breastmilk or water!
Locations lighting up for tube feeding:
These landmarks, buildings and bridges are lighting up purple and blue together, or purple only where single colours are only possible. Please note these sites are subject to change (i.e. if another event is booked for the venue).
ausEE Inc. would like to thank the generosity of the following, for changing the colours of their landmarks and buildings, free of charge, to help raise awareness about tube feeding:
Adelaide Oval
Bundaberg Regional Council
Burnie City Council
Brisbane City Council
Cairns Regional Council
Central Coast Council
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
City Beach Function Centre
City of Albany
City of Bunbury
City of Greater Bendigo
City of Greater Geelong
City of Greater Geraldton
City of Ipswich
City of Karratha
City of Kingston
City of Launceston
City of Mandurah
City of Melbourne
City of Moreton Bay
City of Newcastle
City of Palmerston
City of Perth
Crowne Plaza Hobart
Devonport City Council
Dunedin City Council
Fraser Coast Regional Council
Goulburn Mulwaree Council
Greater Shepparton City Council
Invercargill City Council
Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
Livingstone Shire Council
Logan City Council
Longreach Regional Council
Mackay Regional Council
Main Roads Western Australia
Melbourne Cricket Club
Melbourne & Olympic Parks
Multi-Arts Pavilion, mima
Northern Beaches Council
Oamaru Opera House
Palmerston North City Council
Parliament of South Australia
Queensland Country Bank Stadium
Queensland Government Accommodation Office
Queensland Parliament
Questacon
Rockhampton Regional Council
Shire of Manjimup
Suncorp Stadium
Telstra Tower Canberra
The Bell Tower
The Drum Theatre
Toowoomba Regional Council
Townsville City Council
Transport Canberra and City Services
Transurban
Waratah-Wynyard Council
Whangarei District Council
Whitehorse City Council
Story Bridge, Brisbane. Photo credit: Stacey
Wreck Point Lookout, Livingstone Shire. Photo credit: Sarah
Maryborough City Hall. Photo credit: Delma