At Home with... Liz Dawes: Founder & CEO of Robert Connor Dawes Foundation

At Home With is our new Buxton series, offering an intimate glimpse inside the homes and lives that shape the neighbourhoods we are proud to be part of. It is a people first exploration of the stories and moments that reveal how a house becomes a home.

For this episode, we step inside the Bayside home of Liz Dawes, founder of the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation. Beautiful and positioned privately, Liz’s home speaks to a life shaped by compassion, purpose and enduring connection to place. It's a space where memory and meaning coexist, where every room carries a sense of history and heart.

From her family’s move from America to Australia to the rhythms of daily life built over decades in Bayside, Liz shares how this home has witnessed both joyful milestones and profound loss. It has been a place of refuge, of gathering and of resolve. Over time it has become the emotional centre of a family whose story continues to resonate far beyond its walls.

Through the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation, Liz has transformed personal tragedy into a powerful movement for change. Established in honour of her son Connor, the Foundation is dedicated to changing the odds for children with paediatric brain cancer. Its work spans strategic research funding, meaningful support for families and the nurturing of future clinicians and researchers determined to shape better outcomes.

At Buxton, we are proud to support the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation and the vital work they lead. As Presenting Partner of Connor’s Run, the Foundation’s main annual event, our involvement reflects a shared belief in community, empathy and action with intention. It's a partnership grounded in respect and a genuine commitment to the people and places we serve.

This is more than an insight into a beautiful family home. It is a reflection on resilience, legacy and the quiet strength that exists within our local communities. A story of how space, love and purpose come together to create something that endures.

Click here to discover more about the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation.