Large piggy bank stolen from Vic pub

A woman has walked into a Victorian pub and stole a large pink piggy bank used to raise money for terminally ill children and their families.

She leaned over an unattended counter and grabbed the piggy bank, hid it under her coat and walked out of the pub in Sunbury about midday on Wednesday.

Police have released security camera images of the woman who is about 30 with long brown hair.