cancer fundraising
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.
Since mum died of bowel cancer in 2016, I have been left with questions about the the use of steroids in cancer treatment, in particular about during her final months when the cancer had spread to her brain.
I’m really grateful to Derek Rusling for sending me some amazing photos of bowel bear at the Imperial War Museum at RAF Duxford, where the teddy actually got to fly in a classic Hawker Hurricane, which played a major role in World War II.
Television presenter Gregg Wallace features in The Record, my new charity book that is raising funds for Bowel Cancer UK. I met the host of MasterChef before his one man show at the Norden Farm Arts Centre in Maidenhead, which is the road where my mum and dad lived all their married lives, and where I grew up.
My new bowel cancer book, The Record, and includes my meetings with a couple of comedians, one of whom was Lucy Porter, who I met shortly before her gig at Norden Farm in Maidenhead.
Towards the end of last year I had a video chat with Nicole Cooper for The Record.
I met television presenter Siân Lloyd for The Record, my fundraising book which is raising funds for Bowel Cancer UK. We met at the stunning Dartmouth House in Mayfair, and chatted for a couple of hours, and without doubt it was one of my favourite experiences and chapters in the book.
My work travels took me to Swindon today, so I decided to try my luck and take my stop bowel cancer bear Charlie to The County Ground, the home of Swindon Town Football Club and see if we could get into the ground to take a photo.
