OK, I'm gonna be doing the Great North Run in September and I'm doing it in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR). The aim of the charity is probably quite easy to guess from the name (they help fund cancer research in Yorkshire at universities and their related teaching hospitals), here is a copy of the 'About Us' from their website:

 

Yorkshire Cancer Research (YCR) was founded in 1925, to fund research into the cause and cure of cancer.

YCR is the most successful regional medical research charity in the UK. We fund internationally recognised research, which focuses on a variety of cancers including: breast, bowel, cervical, non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, ovarian, prostate, skin, and genetics of cancers, to name but a few.

YCR is not a regional division of a national charity - it is an independent charity, based and operating in Yorkshire only. We are still, however, at the very forefront of the international fight to find a cure for cancer.

Yorkshire Cancer Research raises its money in Yorkshire and spends it in Yorkshire at its five centres of excellence based at the universities of Bradford, Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York and their associated teaching hospitals.

Yorkshire Cancer Reserach is a member of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) - a membership organisation of the leading medical and health research charities in the UK.

 

So yeah, that's who I'm running for. All donations will be muchly appreciated, however large or small. I would have some more spiel to add but I can't really think of much more to say other than the fact that they're a great charity whose work could possibly influence many of our lives at some point or another.

Thank you.

WM

 

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