Robert Harrison

I'm taking part in #Challenge60 this September for Young Lives vs Cancer

Fundraising for Young Lives vs Cancer
£155
raised of £100 target
by 12 supporters
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Event: Challenge 60, from 1 September 2019 to 30 September 2019
Are you up for the challenge? Its a 60 mile round trip on average for families travelling for cancer treatment. This isn't by choice. Run? Walk? Cycle? Take on 60 miles YOUR way this September and show your support for young lives against cancer.

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Thanks for taking the time to visit my JustGiving page.I am taking part in this year's #Challenge60 for CLIC Sargent. Completing 60 miles throughout the month of September to support Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity. So its the most efficient way to donate saving time and cutting costs for the charity.



Malcolm’s Travels
Malcolm’s Travels is a walk between all the stores in the liverpool and manchester region of Morrisons region during Childhood Cancer
Awareness Month carrying a CLIC Sargent teddy.
Throughout September Malcolm, the teddy, would be transported by store colleagues from our
Buxton store to our Warrington store visiting each of the other stores in between.
The aim of Malcolm’s Travels is GET 10 colleagues from each store in our region to raise
£100 each. This would mean that we would raise an amazing £24,000 for CLIC Sargent during September - Childhood Cancer Awareness Month..

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is themed around a young cancer patient’s travel to hospital for treatment. It’s a 60 mile round trip (on average) for families travelling for cancer
treatment. This isn’t by choice. Many young cancer patients have to travel to specialist cancer
centres to get the care they need – they can’t just go to their local hospital.
Travelling for treatment costs an average of £180 a month when treatment is at its most intense.
As treatment can go on for years, families can face terrible money worries.
One mum told CLIC Sargent their savings were completely wiped out by the costs of staying in a
hotel close to the hospital, due to a 180 mile round trip from home for treatment. On top of that stress, they had to rely on their parents to cover the costs of fuel and food for the rest of the family.
This isn’t right.
Earlier this year, Morrisons and CLIC Sargent were delighted to announce that our partnership had been extended for an extra year. The additional money raised in year 4 of the partnership will fund a new CLIC Sargent Home from Home near the Christie Hospital in
Manchester, which will be a national centre for specialist childhood cancer treatments such as Proton Beam Therapy, CAR-T Treatment and Genome Sequencing.
Homes from Home are havens for families when their child is going through cancer treatment.
They’re free and close to principal treatment centres, helping families avoid the extra financial burdens of travel, accommodation and food costs. Homes from Home also allow young cancer patients to be close to their loved ones, keeping the family together at a difficult time.

Malcom is named after Sir Malcom Sargent As chief conductor of the Proms from 1948 to 1967, Sir Malcolm Sargent gained his widest fame, making the “Last Night” into a high-ratings broadcast celebration, and was noted for his witty addresses to the audiences.

,In October 1967, not long after his last appearance at The Last Night of the Proms, Sir Malcolm Sargent died and his long-term friend Sylvia Darley OBE set up the Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children in 1968 in his memory.

In 2005 Sargent Cancer Care for Children merged with CLIC to form CLIC Sargent, the UK’s leading cancer care charity for young cancer patients.





About the campaign

Are you up for the challenge? Its a 60 mile round trip on average for families travelling for cancer treatment. This isn't by choice. Run? Walk? Cycle? Take on 60 miles YOUR way this September and show your support for young lives against cancer.

About the charity

Young Lives vs Cancer

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At Young Lives vs Cancer, we help families find the strength to face whatever cancer throws at them. But every day 12 more children and young people hear the devastating news they have cancer. We’ll face it all together – but we can’t do it without you. Visit www.younglivesvscancer.org.uk

Donation summary

Total raised
£155.00
Online donations
£150.00
Offline donations
£5.00

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