Our Walk for Freddie!

Dave Clark is raising money for Bone Cancer Research Trust

Team: Step up for Freddie

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Step Up for bone cancer patients · 12 October 2024 ·

Freddie's Future is a Special Fund of the Bone Cancer Research Trust raising vital funds for life-saving research into Ewing sarcoma.

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Join us for a family friendly 5km walk in Bone Cancer Awareness Week! As well as getting FREE entry into Evenley Wood Garden (normally £9 per adult!), we’ll have a treasure hunt for the kids, a goodie bag and tshirt for everyone who takes part, plus raise £100 or more and you’ll receive a fancy medal!! (All children taking part will receive a medal at the end of the walk!)

Oh and Dogs are totally allowed, it wouldn’t be a Freddie fundraiser without being dog friendly

When: Saturday 12th October at 11am

Where: Evenley Wood Gardens, Northamptonshire, NN13 5SH

Here is why fundraising for research into Ewing sarcoma is so important to us and why it means so much to us that you’re joining #TeamFreddie this Autumn.

At just six years old, Freddie was diagnosed with metastatic (in more than one place) Ewing Sarcoma, which is a form of bone cancer.

He went through 10 months of gruelling, intense chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment, and is thankfully showing no signs of disease on his many scans and checks he has to monitor his progress.

Freddie was a shadow of his former self through treatment…he had countless blood transfusions, platelet transfusions, illness, fevers, blood tests, pain, operations and had to be brave way too many times. He now suffers the repercussions of this treatment with hormone problems (one of which is life threatening) where he will be on medication for life, eye sight problems, as well as other more physical issues. This is because some of the drugs used are more than 40 years old, and haven’t advanced. This is because of lack of funding, and lack of research. The majority of bone cancer patients are children, and the prognosis for this awful disease is shocking. 50-80% of people with metastatic disease are likely to relapse, and there is no second line treatment if they do….. and too many patients heartbreakingly do not survive after first line treatment. Not only that, but the larger cancer charities and the government barely give any funding to bone cancer.

This is why Freddie’s Future was set up under the Bone cancer research trust - to better treatments for patients like Freddie.

You can read his full story here ➡️ www.bcrt.org.uk/freddiesfuture

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£170.00
+ £42.50 Gift Aid
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