any thanks to all of you for your donations. We couldn’t do what we’re doing without your generous support. Smaller charities like ours are generally finding fundraising more difficult these days as we don’t have the resources to pursue major…
Newsletter December 2018
Christmas time again! Time flies these days, doesn’t it? The dark evenings and mornings will thankfully soon give way to more daylight. Before we know it, spring will be here! Once again, sincere thanks for your donations, however small. Everything…
Newsletter Spring 2018
An earlier edition of our Newsletter this time. We needed to write to you about Data Protection- see the enclosed letter- and thought we’d take the opportunity to give you a brief update. First of all, we have a new…
Newsletter December 2017
It’s that time of year again! It doesn’t seem that long since we were distributing our Summer Newsletter and here we are with forecasts of poor weather. In a couple of months, we will have more daylight hours and at…
Summer 2017 Newsletter
You may remember that in our December 2016 Newsletter, we noted that one of our founder Trustees, Pat Baly had passed away. On a much brighter note, his son, Nigel has joined us as a Trustee. Nigel has always shown…
Newsletter December 2016
Another year nearly over! It doesn’t seem that it’s 17 years since the millennium when we had all that doom and gloom about what the year 2000 would do to us, does it? If we believed the doom mongers we…
Newsletter Summer 2016
Almost the end of July already but at least the sun is shining now! I imagine that we all thought a few weeks ago that it would be another wet-wet summer! Apparently the “official” line is that June wasn’t as…
Pancreatic Cancer- Stuck in Time
Pancreatic cancer is set to become the 3rd biggest cancer killer in Europe next year despite being the 7th most common cancer for women and the 10th most common cancer for men. The number of people dying from pancreatic cancer…
Hope for pancreatic cancer sufferers.
Some fantastic news! A new drug that “wakes up” the immune system to attack cancer has extended the lives of people with metastatic pancreatic cancer and has no side-effects, raising hopes for a new and powerful tool against the most…
Actress Louise Plowright dies from pancreatic cancer
What a pity we have lost Louise to such a dreadful illness and at only 59 years old. She made a name for herself in stage musicals, co-starring in the hit West End show “Mamma Mia” for five years until…
