Kids Like Brett was founded by Steve Jones in 1990 following the birth in 1989 of his son Brett, who contracted the potentially fatal disease - Nezelof Syndrome. It is an extremely rare disease affecting the immune system whereby contracting even the slightest new infection would be fatal. This required Brett to live isolated from other people in a special hospital ward with his parents for over a year.

Brett was given a bone marrow transplant donated by his mother Roslyn. During this time Brett needed the constant assistance of medical equipment to keep him alive and give him every chance of a full recovery. What soon became apparent to Steve Jones was that the medical equipment keeping his son alive was scarce and needed to be shared with other children who were just as sick. Realising the potential danger of cross infection from sharing the facilities Steve immediately began raising money to buy more equipment.

Steve's enthusiasm is boundless and his aim is to make Kids Like Brett one of Australia's largest not-for-profit charities.

For his outstanding community service Steve has received several awards including the 1998 Community Father of the Year and the 1997 Energy Australia Community Spirit Award. He was named on the 1997 Royal North Shore Hospital Honour board and more recently was awarded the title of Australian of the Year - Local Hero, NSW category 2003.