Thank you for a wonderful anniversary year
What a year we had in 2017!
Yorkshire’s first mobile chemotherapy unit, a fabulous new family respite house and a 30th anniversary appeal that smashed its £100,000 target with weeks to spare…all highlights of a year that marked three decades of York Against Cancer.
It was a spectacular 12 months that also saw our volunteers accorded the nation’s highest volunteering honour, the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service – the equivalent of an MBE.
Other major achievements during 2017 included the success of our lifesaving dermatoscopes project, through which GPs are detecting possible skin cancers more quickly and efficiently.
We launched our 30th birthday appeal in January 2017 and by Christmas, we’d raised almost £150,000 in support of our new MCU, a wonderful achievement thanks to all our supporters
The unit launched last summer to bring treatment closer to home for patients in North and East Yorkshire.
“It has been an amazing year, with a fantastic response from the people of York and around,” said Julie Russell, our general manager.
“The new unit has been a huge success with patients and the money that has been so generously given has helped get its work off to a flying start.”
A range of events took place during 2017 to support our appeal, including a hugely successful Feathers & Pearls ball and collections at September's Press Family Race Day.
Public donations included £25,000 from the sale of a supporter’s classic car, and the appeal had reached £147,624 by Christmas.
Over our three decades York Against Cancer has raised more than £15 million for cancer research, care and education in York and surrounding areas. As we look to the future, we still need your help to continue our important work.
For example, it costs just under £1,000 to keep our mobile chemotherapy unit on the road each day, and we still welcome donations and fundraising in its support. You can donate online here or by post to us at 31 North Moor Road, Huntington, YO32 9QN.
If you would like to hold an event for us we would be thrilled – let us know and we will give you what support we can with publicity and/or help on the day.
We are always grateful for gifts or prize donations to be used at our own events. Maybe you would like to make us your charity of the year? Get in touch and we will support you however we can.
We also welcome interest from people keen to volunteer their time for us. Please contact the office on 01904 764466 or email office@yorkagainstcancer.org.uk