Miss Teen South Yorkshire Galaxy - Kennedy Cousins. Christie Fundraising
Kennedy Cousins is raising money for THE CHRISTIE CHARITY
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I am raising money for The Christie charity on the run up to the Miss Teen Galaxy Final. I chose The Christie charity as cancer is something that affect such a large group of people and each person's family. The money raised for The Christie charity goes towards helping these people in many ways.
The Christie charity raises money for a range of projects and initiatives focusing on 4 main areas, research, care and treatment, education and extra patient services. All of which are above and beyond what the NHS provide enabling them to give their patients the best care and treatment possible.
Your donations really do have an impact at The Christie. Without the support of their fantastic fundraisers they would not be able to give their patients and their families the level of care and support that they do.
From providing continuous funding for the Cancer Information Centre and Wig Service, helping patients and their families cope with the effects of treatment, to raising money for new developments such as the recently opened Teenage and Young Adult unit, your donations are having a positive impact every single day.
All of the funds raised will go towards The Christie’s new outpatients’ facility within the Proton Beam
Therapy Centre, which we have also raised money for! The centre, which will be the first of its kind in the UK, has been designed to include a research room so that The Christie can use the proton beam not only to deliver lifesaving treatment to patients, but to carry out ground-breaking research.
Every single piece of research The Christie carry out in their new proton research room will help them improve treatment for their patients.
One of their first pieces of research will be to investigate how they can deliver proton beam therapy more precisely and efficiently. This means even better treatments for patients and fewer side effects.
With the equipment in place, they will be able to better understand how protons interact, where they deposit their dose and how they can localise their damage to the tumour.