cancer fundraising
This weekend in Rhyl sees the rearranged 40th anniversary acoustic concerts featuring Mike Peters of The Alarm. It does feel a little strange not being there and missing out on what will no doubt be a special weekend and the chance for so many friends to get together for the first time in a couple
Laura Kendrick died of stage 4 bowel cancer on February 22nd. She formed the Kindness Vs Cancer Campaign with the aim of raising £50,000 to transform outcomes for cancer patients. I lifted these words from the website… “Having experienced first-hand the impact of a health care sector in desperate need of a more progressive approach,
Today my Life of Mique teddy bear came with me to a prison! Thankfully we were not being detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure, but were there for work doing a delivery. This is one of the good things about the teddies, as they give you all kinds of weird and wonderful opportunities to take them
It’s been a busy day with thee Life of Mique teddy bears. The day started off with me being able to share a photo of the ex Scottish international footballer, Chris Iwelumo, with a teddy. His fiancée, Jade Annelise, bought a bear last week and sent me this cracking photo. All photos help to raise
There’s no doubt that on days like today you can feel that Spring is not too far away. Lovely out in the sunshine, although unfortunately for me my work unit doesn’t get much sun and is in the shade all day, where it is still absolutely freezing! On days like today where I didn’t have
There will be many people out there, who I am connected with, who will know little about my mum. So having recently introduced myself to my new contacts, I thought perhaps it was time to talk about her. Ultimately, if Mum hadn’t got bowel cancer and sadly died from it, my path would no doubt
One of things that is said quite often is about the amazing friendships made through the cancer community. My first foray into fundraising and making contact with members of the bowel cancer community was almost 10 years ago, not long after Mum had had her bowel operation. What has followed has massively changed me as
It’s been a long and busy week, so it was nice to see this beautiful skyscape tonight as the sun set. I spent the morning out in the van with Prince, and we got the delivering of orders up to date. After a quiet January at work, February was fairly busy and it’s continuing into
March 3rd is World Book Day 2022, and it gives me a chance to reflect on The Record, which I wrote and dedicated to the memory of Mum who died of bowel cancer in 2016. All profits raised by sales of the book are donated to Bowel Cancer UK. Over £1000 has been raised to
Until I began fundraising back in 2012, I had a small close knit circle of friends. Being quite a shy person I always found meeting people a little daunting and making new friendships, as a result, wasn’t easy. However, when I started to sell my first book Beating Bowel Cancer I began, slowly but surely,
