Go Dad Run is a series of 5K and 10K runs for men and boys that take place around the UK to raise awareness of and funds for Prostate Cancer UK and for a third successive year Go Dad Run in Cardiff will take place in Bute Park on the morning of Father’s Day, Sunday June 19th when Colin, Jamie Baulch and Sian Lloyd will be on hand to set the runners off. Colin, winner of a silver medal…
Former world record holder Colin Jackson was joined last night by many friends including Jamie Baulch, Sian Lloyd and Ian Gough at the 2016 launch of his Cardiff ‘Go Dad Run’ The annual event for men and boys to raise awareness of and funds for Prostate Cancer UK will take place in Bute Park on the morning of Father’s Day, June 19th and this year there will be a 10k as well as a 5k. Colin said “It was…
A team including the partner of one of the first cancer patients to be injected with new a tumour-destroying vaccine to take on a challenge in May to raise money for charity. Martin Shaw is joining Roger Sanford, 40, and a team of nine from financial provider company, Syscap, to fundraise for Dimbleby Cancer Care by taking part in the UK’s greatest endurance challenge – a 100km event in which participants can walk, jog or run the distance from London to Brighton. The charity…
Blood cancer charity Bloodwise has joined forces with UK auction house Classic Car Auctions to launch this year’s Big Welsh Car Show, taking place in Margam Country Park on Sunday 18 September. The specialist auction house, which is the official sponsor of the classic car show, wants to raise funds for the charity and is appealing to generous vintage car dealers to donate a car. This would be auctioned in December, with all of the money raised from it…
Cardiff Marrow Society are raising awareness in a fundraiser. The occurrence that sparked this event was that one of the students at Cardiff university was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer and she urgently needs a bone marrow transplant. This is her story, “Up till just a few months ago, everything was falling right into place for Vithiya Alphons (24), a final year optometry student at Cardiff University. Having just returned from a summer spent travelling in Moldova and…
Cancer patients and their families in Wales are set to benefit from the fundraising efforts of one of Cardiff’s most popular luxury hotels. Park Plaza Cardiff has raised £14,100 for Velindre Cancer Centre in the last twelve months, as part of a charitable partnership between the two organisations. Park Plaza had initially pledged to raise £10,000 for Velindre as part of the hotels 10th birthday celebrations throughout 2015, but following a year of fundraising activities the hotels has smashed their…
Latest figures show an increase of 14 per cent over 10 years in the number of new cancer cases in Wales, according to a new report published by Public Health Wales on World Cancer Day. The increase in cancer numbers in Wales is the result of people living longer, and an increase in many preventable cancers in middle-aged and younger pensioners, especially in women. The report from the Welsh Cancer Intelligence and Surveillance Unit (WCISU) demonstrates a clear link between…
Welsh adults are the least aware in Britain that physical inactivity (44% aware), drinking alcohol (52% aware), eating a poor diet (59% aware) and being overweight (51% aware) increase the risk of cancer, when comparing England, Scotland and Wales, a poll for World Cancer Research Fund has found. The YouGov poll found that over half of Welsh adults (56%) are not aware that physical inactivity increases the risk of cancer, nearly half are not aware of the cancer risk attached…
We’re over the ‘Bay’ for Tenovus Cancer Care The St. David’s Hotel & Spa challenged daredevils of Cardiff to take part in a once-in-a-lifetime zip wire challenge today in Cardiff Bay in aid of the hotel’s charity of the year, Tenovus Cancer Care, Wales’ leading cancer charity. More than 70 people from the ages of 12 up to 92, took part in today’s zip wire challenge and, tomorrow a second round of adrenalin junkies will take to the skies with over…
CARDIFF SCIENTISTS AND RESEARCHERS from Cancer Research UK’s Cardiff Centre put on their pink ‘war paint’ and are calling on women from across South Wales to join the fight against the disease by signing up for Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life. They want thousands of mums, daughters, grans, friends and colleagues to unite and form a ‘pink army’ at the Race for Life 5k, 10k and Pretty Muddy events at Bute Park on the weekend of 18 & 19…
