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My colleague Tracey Payton is part of a non-profitable organisation which place 'End Of Treatment Bells' into hospitals for children and adults with cancer to ring after their gruelling treatment.
Each bell costs approximately Β£145 to make and every penny they receive in donations is spent on funding more bells.
"The bell is a symbol of hope for families who find themselves on this horrendous journey. Some families treatment last for years, some for months, and each path is unique to them. We want to offer them something at the end, something to say 'YES, WE DID IT!'"
Everyone should get to celebrate such a major milestone and I'm aiming to run 10k in under 60minutes to help fund a bell or two! ππ
So far, as a totally non-profit organisation, they have placed 95 bells at:
* Addenbrooke's ππ
* Alder Hey π
* Alfe's Cause, Northampton π
* Barnet π
* Basildon π
* Bath π
* Belfast City Hospital π
* Birmingham Children's Hospital π
* Bristol Children's Hospital π π
* Cardiff π
* North Carolina Children's Hospital ππ
* St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey π
* Christchurch Hospital (NZ) π
* The Christie, Manchester πππππ
* The Christie, Salford π
* The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre ππ
* Colchester General Hospital π
* Croydon π
* Coventry & Warwickshire π
* Royal Derby π
* Royal Devon & Exeter π
* Russell Hall Hospital Dudley π
* Duke Children's Hospital π
* University Hospital of North Durham π
* Frimley Park Hospital π
* Glasgow π
* Gloucester π
* Great Ormond Street ππππππ
* Histio UK π
* Kingston π
* Isle of Wight π
* Leeds (St James) π
* Leicester General Infirmary π
* Leicester Royal Infirmary ππ
* The Lister π
* Luton & Dunstable Hospital π
* Royal Manchester Children's Hospital πππ
* Manchester Royal Infirmary π
* Royal Marsden π
* Matt's Mission, Birmingham π
* North Middlesex π
* Milton Keynes π
* Freeman Hospital, Newcastle π
* GNCH Newcastle ππ
* Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital π
* North Durham University Hospital π
* Northampton π
* Nottingham πππππ
* Peterborough City Hospital π
* Poole π
* Queens Hospital, Romford ππ
* Russell Hall Hospital, Dudley π
* Heulwen Day Unit, Rhyl π
* Salford Royal π
* Sheffield Children's Hospital π
* Southampton π
* Royal Stoke π
* Southend π
* St Mary's, Paddington π
* Stoke Mandeville π
* Royal Surrey π
* Kings Mill Hospital, Sutton in Ashfield π
* Swindon π
* The Tadworth Children's Trust π
* Taunton π
* Tayside (Dundee) π
* Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro ππ
* UCLH π
* Wellington General Hospital (NZ)
* Weston Park, Sheffield π
* The Whittington, London π
* Wolverhampton π
* Woolwich π
* Yeovil π
* Royal London Hospital π