Sharon passed away in August 2024 from secondary liver cancer, brought on by pancreatic cancer, after being diagnosed less than 11 months prior.

Pancreatic cancer is the 5th biggest cancer killer in the UK, with a low, 7% survival rate, currently responsible for almost 10,000 deaths annually and treatment for the cancer is very limited.

We are raising money for hayward house hospice in Nottingham, who cared for Sharon in the last four weeks of her life.

Hayward houes is a hospice which not only gives end of life care but also gives support and guidance to friends and family of their patients.

Sharon loved gardening and found solace in the lovely gardens which hayward houes has,a real oasis patients can forget about their symptoms for a short while.

Notting is too much trouble for the staff, both patients and visitors alike are encouraged to try and live as normal a life as possible whilst in their care, even pet dogs are welcome, with the nurses making a big fuss over Teddy, Sharon fur baby, on the occasions he was taken in to visit her.

They also let us do a BBQ one Sunday afternoon, a first for them,but I think secretly they allowed it so the nurses could sneak a cheeky sausage.

Fiercely independent until the end, Sharon became a mother figure to some of the other patients in the hospice, I'm sure some of the nurses thought their jobs might be at risk and Sharon would not let her own symptoms and pain stop her from helping others, but that was Sharon always putting other's first.

Now it is time to put Sharon first and help raise funds for the hospice that gave such good care to her, so that others can receive the same attention in their last days and so that we can remember Sharon as she was, larger than life, a mum, a wife, a friend.