cancer fundraising
In an ideal world I would have met Nicole Cooper in Melbourne, Australia, where she currently lives and works. Sadly that wasn’t possible as I am stuck in a rather wet and miserable UK, but the wonders of modern technology enabled us to have a video chat this morning. I am delighted to reveal that
It wasn’t until I published the first book, Beating Bowel Cancer, in 2012 that I realised just how important it is to help raise awareness about bowel cancer. Initially I thought the job of the book was to raise funds for the Beating Bowel Cancer charity. After a few weeks when the sales started to drop off
This is a departure from my normal fundraising for Bowel Cancer UK. Everyone who knows me, will know all about my obsession for my favourite band The Alarm. Lead singer Mike Peters has been living with leukemia for over 20 years, and is a co-founder of the Love Hope Strength Foundation, whose purpose is to raise
There have been a couple of major changes during 2018, which have led me to updating the festive video for the Lives & Times video. Firstly Beating Bowel Cancer joined with Bowel Cancer UK to become Bowel Cancer UK (Beating Bowel Cancer Together). Secondly I had to set up a new website with a new provider, so
Here is the 2018 Christmas fundraising video, and not surprisingly this year #bowelbear takes centre stage. Please can you share this video to as many people as possible across all forms of social media. These cute teddy bears would make an ideal Christmas gift for anyone of any age. #bowelbear is helping to raise awareness
A little bit of luck got #bowelbear Charlie into Headingley cricket ground the home of Yorkshire County Cricket and of course every so often to England too. I’ve spent the weekend visiting my brother’s new home in Leeds, which is located only a few minutes from the ground. We went there with the expectation of
This is the perfect photo. #bowelbears Hope and Dylan at the Sir Ken Dodd statue in Liverpool today. Brilliant effort by Helen Johnson. Sadly Sir Ken died earlier this year aged 90. This photo has certainly set down a marker for all stop bowel bear owners to follow. Where will bears go to next and
The latest #bowelbear photo I received came from Sara Williams. She had the lovely idea of naming her bear PG, after her brother Peter Geraint, who sadly died almost thirty years ago aged just 25. I was really touched by the idea, and perhaps others might follow suit in the future. Sara is someone who
Here is a first peek at what is going to provide the basis for my new bowel cancer fundraising book cover design. Last week I met Greg Gilbert and Stacey Heale as part of the book in Southampton. I picked up this fantastic piece of art from Greg, which I am going to use as
Here is the #bowelbear photo gallery. I am putting all the best images that I receive into this gallery, with at least one from everyone who sends me a picture, and there have been lots of great photos sent to me already. The stop bowel cancer bears are helping to raise awareness about bowel cancer,
