News 2019

See the ‘What’s On Page 2019’ where we have listed our speakers for the year so far!

April 

It is with great sadness that Paul has lost his battle with Lymphoma. Paul and his wife Sue (Hartley) have been members of our group from the early days of Paul’s illness and have actively contributed to the success of the group.

Sue would like to invite everyone to Paul’s celebration of life will be held at Radcliffe crematorium on Wednesday 10^th April at 3.30pm and then afterwards at the Brown Cow, Burrs County Park ,Bury. You do not have to wear black but Paul was a blue or grey person.

Flowers from family members only and donations received will go to charities of the family’s choice one of which will be our group. Sue does not expect any donations from the group.

Our thoughts are with Sue and the family at this sad time and hope to see any of you who can possibly make it on the day

April Meeting

Thank you to Dr Nasko Stanchev, Specialty Doctor Clinical Haematology  came to our meeting to  talk about advances in treatments for lymphatic cancers and hold a ‘free’ discussion with the group. 

The session was extremely informative and enhanced by Dr Nasko's humerous approach!

August

A young man by the name of Will Young is raising money for our group and we need your help and support!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/world-gravy-wrestling-championships?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet.

Gravy wrestling quest completed and Will raised £250 for the group! Many thanks to Will foor doing this and all of you who supported him!

Amount raised now £280!!

September

September is National Blood Cancer Awareness Month. On 16 September we held our event at North Manchester General Hospital which proved to be a big success. We made contact with patients, relatives, carers and hope we helped them with the information we were able to share.

Clinical staff from A&E, Respiratory team and wards also showed interest some having a wide range of knowledge and promising to share the information we provided in their clinical environments.

Thank you too North Manchester Estates and Facilities for helping us with the arrangements!

December 

We held our Christmas raffle and buffet on 5 December 2019 and had a really lovely time! The raffle raised £559  and there were 20 prizes for the lucky winners! List of winners  appear here!

Thank you to Amanda and staff for decorating the room it was great and providing fantastic food.

Thank you also to Morrison's Whitefield, Sainsburys Heaton Park and Whitefield Pharmacy for donating fantastic raffle prizes.