Help us raise £38,000 at this years Santa Dash so we can continue providing our services to people with terminal illnesses, and their families, over the festive period.

We are still hoping to meet our fundraising target of £35,000 from sign-ups and the sponsorship you raise by taking part in our Santa Dash this year, and we know that, with your support, together we can make this happen!

The Coronavirus outbreak has had a significant impact on our ability to raise vital funds in the last year.

We had to suspend all face to face fundraising, close Mytons 24 shops and mass events had to be cancelled or postponed.

Every month we need to raise £650,000 and we are asking people to show their support by making a donation to ensure we can continue to provide our services free of charge for the people of Coventry and Warwickshire, now and in the future.

Providing dedicated care and support for people with life limiting illnesses, and their families, in our inpatient beds and in the community continues to be our primary focus, and we need to raise £7.8 million this year to do this. We cant do it without the support of people like you!

The difference your support makes

Christmas 2015 was an unthinkably tough time for the Broad family.

That December, mum Joe Broad was diagnosed with HER2-positive Breast Cancer - a particularly aggressive form of the disease.

Just two weeks later Joe and her husband Dean were told the cancer was in her bones.

The couple and their two young sons, Zac and Olly, now 14 and ten, were faced with the devastating news that remission from cancer was not going to happen.

Brave Joe fought like a warrior over the years, enduring treatments and side effects to battle her cancer including whole brain radiotherapy when then discovered the cancer had spread to her brain in July 2019.

But, in May 2020, two weeks after their 15th wedding anniversary, she died, aged just 46.

Dean said:

Prior to her death, Joe spent two weeks at Coventry Myton Hospice for pain management and symptom control, before being discharged home.

As well as nursing and medical care, Joe received Complementary Therapy to help her relax and was pampered by the staff at the hospice, which made a real difference to how she felt.

Her friends and children were able to visit her, and both Joe and Dean had counselling support from the team at Myton support that ten-year-old Olly has been accessing since his mum died through our childrens bereavement service.

With donations in memory of Joe, in lieu of flowers and sponsorship for his cycling, Dean, his friends and family raised over £4,200 for Myton!

added Dean.

At the start of 2020 Dean set himself a challenge to cycle 20km each day and, despite everything the family were going through, he only missed 7 days throughout the whole of 2020!

He even upped his daily challenge to 40km every day for 122 days when the children went back to school smashing his target and even cycling on Christmas Day!

We are blown away by Deans efforts and cant thank him enough.

We hope that youre feeling inspired to take on your own challenge, like the Santa Dash, to help raise vital funds for Myton, so we can support more people like Joe and her family, now and in the future.