Hyde Park Walk 2013
The Hyde Park Walk is our biggest event of the year, and will take place this year on Sunday 9th June 2013.
In 2012 our walkers raised an amazing £47,000, allowing us to continue to extend our support services to more people; this year we want to raise even more. We need £50,000 to continue to provide help to patients and their families in the future. The money raised will fund services such as soothing sessions of massage or reflexology for those dealing with chemotherapy and its disturbing side-effects. It will also go towards providing specialised treatment for women with the debilitating condition of lymphoedema. We need you to help us reach our ambitious target this year.
Join us with your friends, family and colleagues to help make the 10th Hyde Park Walk the biggest walk yet. The walk is suitable for all ages and all levels of fitness, as you can walk, jog, or run the 10k course. We will be providing fresh fruit and drinks and you are welcome to bring along a picnic to make it the perfect day out.
To register, simply download and complete the entry form below and return it to us with an entry fee of £15 (under 16s are free) at ‘The Cancerkin Centre, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London, NW3 2QG’. One form and fee are required per person.
Click here to download the 2013 entry form.
The closing date for entries is Friday 17th May 2013. We will then send you a fundraising pack with sponsorship forms and your free Cancerkin T-shirt.
If you have any questions, please contact Holly, either on h.lovering@cancerkin.org.uk or 020 7830 2323. We look forward to seeing you in June!
Annual Lecture 2013: “Wellbeing and work – are they compatible with chronic diseases?”
Cancerkin’s annual lecture will take place this year on Tuesday 19th March 2013 and we are very pleased to announce that the lecture will be given by Professor Dame Carol Black DBE MD FRCP MACP FMedSci, recently appointed Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Dame Carol has had a distinguished career, including serving as President of the Royal College of Physicians (2002-2006). She was also the first UK National Director for Health and Work and is currently chair of the Department of Health’s Public Health Responsibility Deal, Health at Work Network. Her lecture will focus on the impact that chronic disease has on wellbeing and work. Dame Carol is well known to Cancerkin having been a Consultant for Scleroderma and Medical Director at the Royal Free. She opened the Cancerkin Centre in October 2002.
The lecture will take place in the Atrium of the Royal Free Hospital and will begin at 6.30pm, with a drinks reception from 5.45pm. Drinks and nibbles will also be served after the talk. To reserve a place, please download, fill out and return the form below or alternatively email Holly Lovering at h.lovering@cancerkin.org.uk. Spaces are limited, so please confirm your attendance by Friday 9th March 2013.
Cancerkin houses the only breast cancer specific lymphoedema clinic in the UK, providing treatment completely free for this painful, and commonly overlooked, side effect of breast cancer treatment. Often difficult to fund, the lecture is an opportunity to celebrate this achievement by raising funds for this very necessary service provided by Cancerkin. The lecture is free of charge, but any donations in support of the lymphoedema clinic would be very gratefully received. To donate, simply complete and return the form overleaf or bring it with you on the night.
We would love to see as many of you as possible for what is sure to be a fascinating lecture of relevance not least to those with breast cancer who are of working age.
Click here to download a reservation form.
Beacon On The Hill
This is your chance to honour someone you know who has been affected by breast cancer - by sponsoring a message in a bottle. Your bottle will form part of a remarkable light installation by world-renowned installation artist Bruce Munro.
Click here to download a sponsorship form.
Click here to donate via JustGiving
Click here to view Beacon’s messages of hope, support and dedication.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Cancerkin is linking up with Bruce Munro on a light show with a message – a message of hope. Bruce is constructing a modern day beacon, formed from 2730 plastic bottles individually lit in Cancerkin’s colours of pink and blue. Anyone affected by breast cancer can be part of this light show by sponsoring a light, attaching a personal message, helping to illuminate the night with their hopes and supporting Cancerkin’s work with their sponsorship.
At five metres wide and three metres high, the installation – called ‘Beacon On The Hill’ – will be placed bottle by bottle on a 288 metre chalk hill near Bath. A huge physical and logistical challenge, it will take a week for a team of five, working in all weathers, to construct this one-off installation, ensuring ‘Beacon’, and all it stands for, can be seen for miles.
Bruce Munro lost a close friend to breast cancer at 33 and it was her memory that has inspired Bruce to create an installation to help Cancerkin continue to support those affected by the disease. He comments, “This hill and surrounding countryside has long been my ‘canvas’. I lost a dear friend very young to breast cancer and meeting Victoria Todd from Cancerkin was the link needed for me to create my own incarnation of a beacon of light in support of all who are, or have been, affected by this disease. By illuminating the night sky for a brief moment, I hope to send the message “you are not alone”.”
The moment Beacon is lit will be captured by a series of images, ensuring Beacon on the Hill will continue to be a symbol of hope and unity long after the lights are turned out.
Cancerkin at Hampstead Theatre on 10 October 2012
We are thrilled to be hosting a charity performance of The Judas Kiss staring Rupert Everett at the Hampstead Theatre on Wednesday 10 October 2012 in honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and to celebrate Cancerkin’s 25th Anniversary.
Click here to download a reservation and payment form.
The Judas Kiss depicts the life of Oscar Wilde, who will be played by renowned actor Rupert Everett. It describes two pivotal moments in Wilde’s life that lead him on a path to destruction: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night, after his release two years later, when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a quiet but burning sense of outrage, author David Hare presents the consequences of taking an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear, expedience and conformity. Directed by Neil Armfield and featuring a sparkling cast, the production is not to be missed.
Tickets are usually £50 but we are offering a special early booking discounted rate of £45 for tickets purchased before 31st July 2012. Given the speed at which seats sold out last year for the performance of ‘The Last of the Duchess,’ we advise that you reserve early to avoid disappointment and to receive a special discount.
Hyde Park Walk 2012 Sunday 17th June
On Sunday, hundreds of Cancerkin supporters walked 10k around Hyde Park in support of those with breast cancer and to celebrate our 25th Anniversary. It was a special day of smiles, laughter and glorious sunshine – we could not have asked for better weather. Visit our website to see for yourself how much fun was had and to spot your photo. We would like to thank all our walkers (pets included!), our special guest Tom Conti, our sponsors – GAM, Sainsburys and Ocean Spray – and our fantastic team of volunteers who made the day such a success.
We have been overwhelmed with positive feedback about the walk and are so pleased to hear so many people enjoyed themselves. If you have any comments you would like to share, then please do get in contact with Laura on l.smith@cancerkin.org.uk.
If you successfully completed the walk, you will now be busy collecting up your sponsorship money. To be in with a chance of winning luxury products generously donated by perfumery Floris, your sponsorship money must be at the Cancerkin Centre by Friday 17th August. On this day, we will count up how much has been raised in total and we will announce our top three fundraisers. Please ensure that you do not send cash in the post, cheques are made payable to Cancerkin and your envelope is clearly marked for the Hyde Park Walk. If you have any questions, contact Laura on the email address above.
