cancer fundraising
I tend to do a lot of posts about the people who feature in my books. These incredible people take centre stage, but let’s ease them to one side for a moment, and talk about another very important group of people who are the friends that I’ve made as a result of my fundraising.
The reason why Bill and everyone in the book is taking part is to help raise funds for Bowel Cancer UK, and to help raise awareness about this awful disease. My Mum died of bowel cancer in August 2016, having been first been diagnosed with cancer back in 2012. Bowel cancer claims 16,000 lives each year, making it the second highest cancer killer in the UK. Yet if detected early it can be successfully treated in over 90% of cases.
The chapter in The Record on Jeremy Cunningham and The Levellers was done in two parts.
It’s over seven years since Mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer, and my fundraising journey began. To date around £10,000 has been raised. Mum’s death in 2016 has only served to drive me on with the fundraising and raising awareness. In 2020 I am hoping to concentrate on fundraising at events. The idea being that
These cute reindeer #14 are raising funds for the Love Hope Strength Foundation. The charity was co-founded by Mike Peters, the lead singer with The Alarm, who has lived with cancer for 20 years. “Love Hope Strength Foundation as a charity promotes innovative, music related, outreach and awareness programmes for leukaemia and cancer sufferers, survivors
Chapter 8 in The Record features my meeting with Rupert Moon the former Welsh rugby international at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff on an unseasonably warm October afternoon in 2018. It was one of those occasions where the whole experience just could not have been any better.
