cancer fundraising
This month marks 10 years of my fundraising. The anniversary gives me a chance to reflect upon and acknowledge the impact it has had on my own life.
It was exactly three years ago that I did my last public fundraising event when I went to the Bowel Cancer UK Patients Day in Manchester. The Record was a couple of weeks away from its official publication date, so I took copies along to sell along with some Stop Bowel Cancer Teddies. It was
This week has seen the Lives & Times fundraising book turn 5 years old. The book was an amazing journey for me, taking 18 months to put together. It was one memorable experience after another meeting so many fascinating people, and the help, support, and enthusiasm of those who took part will stay with me
In 2015 I travelled into London to meet Dave Fenton, lead vocalist with The Vapors, a band best remembered for their worldwide smash hit single Turning Japanese. I decided to try and track him down for the Lives & Times bowel cancer fundraising book I was writing.
I can’t believe that it’s almost six years since I met up with the wonderful singer and actress Clare Grogan. She was performing an Altered Images set at Let’s Rock on a very hot summer’s day in Southampton in July 2014, and she’d agreed to have a chat with me for the Lives & Times bowel cancer fundraising book, which I published in 2015.
Today’s post during bowel cancer awareness month is the chapter from the Lives & Times bowel cancer fundraising book on my mum, who sadly died of bowel cancer in August 2016. Mum lived to see the book published, and in fact shed a few tears when she saw it for the first time. This was one of
Almost four years ago I published the Lives & Times fundraising book. Today a new batch of books arrived from the printers as it continues to sell, which I find quite wonderful and am ever so grateful. I never thought I would still be buying in supplies of books in 2019. Things were very different
When I saw Alison Franks sharing a Facebook memory today I thought it was a good time to look back on the chapter on Billy Franks in the Lives & Times fundraising book. Alison sent me this cracking photo of her with her copy of the book, which has now raised around £4000 for Bowel Cancer
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
More exciting news today with a date set to meet Kim Wilde for the forthcoming bowel cancer fundraising book, The Record, which will be published next year. 2018 has been a very busy year for Kim with the long awaited release of a new album, Here Come The Aliens, and she has been back out on the
