cancer fundraising
Over the course of the last ten years there have been the inevitable highs and lows as far as the fundraising goes, although many more highs thankfully. If one project during that time can illustrate pretty everything that was going on inside my head then it was the writing of The Record, my third and most recent book, which was published on June 21st, 2019.
It’s seems unbelievable that today marks the 10th anniversary of losing dad. June 15th 2009 is a day when everything changed…
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
A year ago on November 5th 2018 I met Kim Wilde at the picturesque Tewin Bury Farm Hotel just outside Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire for my new bowel cancer fundraising book The Record, which is out now.
Towards the end of last year I had a video chat with Nicole Cooper for The Record.
Chapter 12 in The Record really served as a stark reminder to me just how awful bowel cancer is. If there was ever a good reason for buying the book then this chapter is it. Deborah James died on July 27th 2017 aged just 37 leaving behind her young daughter Grace.
It was back in September 2017 that I spent a really nice evening in the company of Deborah James in Richmond for Chapter 16 in The Record. It was a fascinating, and enlightening experience listening to her story, and talking at length about bowel cancer.
In the summer of 2018 I went to SKY Television to meet Jacquie Beltrao for my bowel cancer fundraising book, The Record. At the time she was in remission from breast cancer and heading for five years being cancer clear. Jacquie’s cancer returned in 2020 as stage 4 breast cancer and anyone who follows her
One of the last people I spoke to for The Record was Jules Peters. This chapter was a long time in the making, and when a meeting with Jules before The Alarm’s December 2018 gig in Reading had to be cancelled, I did wonder if my opportunity might have gone. However, we had a brief chat in Llandudno at The Gathering in early 2019, and Jules was still keen to support the book, so plans were put in place to make it happen.
When I began writing The Record after Mum’s death in 2016 the first thing I decided was to approach the bowel cancer community to support the book. I didn’t want the book to be purely about bowel cancer, but I was not going to shy away from the subject matter either. After all I had just lost my mum to this awful disease, I was dedicating the book to her memory, and I set out with purpose of producing a book that would raise funds for Bowel Cancer UK.
