The funds, raised by Bendigo Stadium through radio station 3BO’s Beat the Buzzer competition, will go towards CAMHS centres in Bendigo, Castlemaine, Echuca, Kyenton and Swan Hill, all of which provide specialist mental health treatment to young people up to the age of 18.

CAMHS Manager Lorraine Flynn said sensory equipment could be used to help calm and reduce anxiety in children with a mental health illness.

"Children don’t like to sit and talk a lot of the time," she said.

"We see zero to 18 year olds and a lot of them might have some difficulties around activities and sensory issues.

"A lot of equipment is calming, particularly for children with autism, they might like the sensations of certain things."

She said the centre's occupational therapist had compiled a list of visual and tactile equipment that children who use the service could benefit from. 

The items to be purchased include weighted blankets, iPads, jelly spike balls, mini fan, liquid timers, mini blankets, pom pom balls, stretchy caterpillar, two-tone wrist bands and wooden fidget puzzles, among other things. 

She said such items helped provide a child not so much with a distraction, but a different focus during sessions.

"Many of the children that we work with at CAMHS experience sensation differently to other children," Ms Flynn said.

"In addition, they are often experience heightened emotions and difficulties with concentration and attention and these differences and difficulties can make it more difficult for them to participate in sessions."

Ms Flynn said all the staff in CAHMS were grateful to Bendigo Stadium for the donation.

"We are very grateful, it's tremendous," she said. 

"We have about 22 full time staff and everyone was really rapt.  It doesn’t go unnoticed."

Bendigo Health Foundation director Jane Anderson said the foundation had been working hard to find ways to raise money for the service, and also thanked Bendigo Stadium for their help.

"Over the last year Lorraine and I have been in discussions about the fact this is often an area people don’t think about in terms of donations," she said. 

Bendigo Braves sponsorship and administrations manager Kevin Probert said Bendigo Stadium was happy to help.

"From the Braves' perspective, we’re certainly all about the community and in school clinics, but this was a different level for the Braves and the stadium to join together and be able to support Bendigo Health and entrust Jane and the team to put the money where it was most needed," he said. 

"So for us we’re grateful to be able to make the donation and really appreciative it's going to be used across the region."