Thank you for visiting the fundraising page of
Vic’s Big Walk
I will attempt to walk, in 70 days, from my home in the French Pyrenees to the house in Blackpool, Northern England, where I was born. That is one day for each year of my life – I intend to arrive at the house exactly 70 years, to the day, after I was born in it. 10 long weeks of walking – why am I putting myself through this?
The target is to raise £7,000 towards vital research for the purpose of improving the appalling survival rates for those who are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I shall be very pleased if I greatly exceed that target and will be making great efforts to do so.
I have a very personal reason for wanting to publicise and help to defeat this dreadful illness. My first wife, Gaile, succumbed to it only a few short weeks after diagnosis.
Her story is not uncommon. The survival rates are abysmal. Less than 3% survive more than 5 years after diagnosis. And unlike better known cancers, pancreatic cancer is one of the few cancers for which over the last 50 years the chances of people diagnosed has actually diminished. Still most people have not heard of pancreatic cancer!
The objective is to dramatically improve the survival chances for those diagnosed with this dreadful killer.
So please dig deep and donate now.
If you want to sponsor me online, donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me. Pancreatic Cancer UK (http://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/) will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you. It is a UK charity, but any advances against pancreatic cancer will benefit people in your country as well – possibly somebody close to you.
If you want to know more about Vic’s Big Walk, please go to the blog http://vicsbigwalk.blogspot.com/
Thank you for your support. There is one more thing you can do. Please write to everybody on your address list and ask them to get on board in this fight. Ask them to:
1- Go to my blog (they can just Google Vic's Big Walk) and click on the “JustGiving” button, which will take them to this page.
2. Donate to this most worthy cause, to help us in the fight.
3. Send the details on to everybody on their address list, ask them to do the same, and so on.
Can we make a difference? Yes we can!
p.s. Donations will be in pounds sterling. If you need to know what sterling equates to in your currency, you can easily find out on the following website:
www.xe.com
