I am raising money to support the Fighting to be Heard foundation, set up by my school mum friend and local Urmston resident, Kate Rackham after her own secondary breast cancer diagnosis. Kate is truly inspirational and campaigns tirelessly to drive awareness of secondary breast cancer and the Fighting to be Heard foundation.

Secondary breast cancer is often described as the ‘forgotten form’ of breast cancer, even though it is estimated in a recent audit that there are over 57,000 people living with metastatic (secondary) breast cancer in the UK.

Fighting to be Heard was set up in September 2021 when 20 women joined together in solidarity to create an awareness campaign. Strangers from across the UK, united by their diagnosis with incurable secondary breast cancer.

These 20 women know that this is a fight that they physically cannot win yet there is a shared desire to use their voices collectively to ‘fight’ for a voice for the secondary breast cancer community.