In June 2024, my mum died two and a half years after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was looked after by the brilliant team at Cheltenham General and intended to raise some money for them. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to do this, and so my sister and I are doing it on behalf of our lovely mum. On 21st June we'll be putting on our walking boots and setting off to walk 100kms of the Cotswold Way - it's going to be a long day and night! Mum loved walking and in fact completed the whole of the Cotswold Way with her friend, Kate, some years ago. This therefore feels like the perfect event to remember our mum and do something positive following her death. We hope that the money raised towards the realisation of the new cancer centre will go some way towards helping others in a similar situation to our mum to receive even better care. More information about the new cancer centre can be found below. Many thanks for your donation - we really appreciate it. Rachael and Rebecca, on behalf of our mum, Julia.

We have a vision for a wonderful new home. But we need your help to make this dream a reality.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a designated Regional Cancer Centre and has provided specialist cancer care for people in our community for more than 60 years supporting hundreds of thousands of local people to receive the best care there is to offer. Many of the current facilities are over 25 years old and a new modern building is needed to care for future generations.

The first phase of the project is to build a new space at Cheltenham General Hospital to improve the environment inside and out for patients and staff. There will be modern consulting rooms complete with new digital technology, space for innovation and research trials as well as a new therapeutic garden. Existing facilities in the current Oncology Centre will also be upgraded as part of the second phase of the project.

The clinical team have been heavily involved in the design of a comfortable, welcoming building at Cheltenham General Hospital that will transform the care experience of everyone who needs to come here. Our new cancer care centre will be bigger, better and brighter. This brand-new, cutting-edge care facility will be a warm, welcoming space that will help the treatment and healing of all who come here.

For more information, please visit www.bigspacecancerappeal.co.uk