The Morpeth Lodge Motel and Raworth Tennis Centre manager has added another $3400 to her total after a recent scavenger hunt between Maitland and Port Macquarie.

Her friends Michelle Davis and Carole Underwood helped her pull the event together and now she’s less than $2000 away from her $30,000 fundraising target.

Ms Bullent, a mother-of-three, is fighting back against terminal cancer.

She said the businesses who offered discounted rates for the hunt, which included a cruise and overnight accommodation, allowed her to raise as much money as possible. 

Forty-one people attended the event in 12 cars and put their creative hats on to find answers lurking in rhymes.

“They loved it, we’d done a scavenger hunt and also clues to get to a certain place and they all said as soon as we got up to Port Macquarie - ‘you’ve got to do another one of these’,” Ms Bullent said.

“It was brilliant fun.”

Ms Bullent hopes to reach $30,000 by the end of December.

She has already had her head shaved and held a fundraising day to help reach her goal. 

Ms Bullent found out she had terminal cancer after a routine mammogram in 2016, not long after she participated in the City to Surf.

At the time Ms Bullent was feeling fit and healthy, so the news was a real shock.

Further tests revealed the cancer had spread to seven other parts of her body, including her lymph nodes and her brain. 

She has been having palliative chemotherapy ever since.

She’s also endured intense radiotherapy sessions to help shrink the tumours in her brain. 

The treatment is designed to slow the cancer’s growth. 

Another scavenger hunt isn’t on the priority list just yet, but she’s looking at smaller ventures to raise more money including selling Mark Hughes Foundation beanies. 

“I feel confident that we’ll get to $30,000 this year – I know we’ll make it, so I’m very happy,” she said.