What we have done so far!

Well we (me and Luna my beautiful dog, who is now RIP and my lovely friends) have walked the South West Coast Path, yeap all of it 697 miles to be precise, it's supposed to be 630 but we must have got lost! Thank you to everyone who has donated so far, currently, we are at £3253.59 but we want to raise more hence this page is still open and would love for you to read on and support us. Thank you ❤

My Dad

Dad (AKA Kit, or "the fossil") was brilliant, brave and clever and although he put up a fiercesome fight for more than 10 years (Musgrove called him "their miracle") he died in 2010 at just 66 from an incredibly rare form of leukaemia, prolymphocytic or PLL - that makes up less than 1% of chronic leukaemias.

He was a master at telling really bad jokes, drinking red wine and beer and living. Everyone who worked with, played cricket, golf or squash were part of his extended family and he is greatly missed.

He helped and encouraged so many people in sport and work and life and now we want to remember him so ...  

You can help us raise funds for these vital services

The team at Ward Nine at Musgrove Park Hospital cared for Dad (and us) in the 10 years that he was a regular visitor with kindness and true compassion that we will never forget. Your support will enable the staff make life easier for all the amazing people that spend time in their care.

Blood Cancer is the fifth most common cancer but half of UK adults can't name one symptom (dad went to the doctor as he had been hit by a cricket ball, but in reality his spleen was enlarged). We all need to raise its profile to help reduce the number of deaths, as 15,000 people in the UK still die of blood cancer every year. Funds that we raise will be spent on life saving research by Blood Cancer UK to help people today.

How will your donations help?

Blood Cancer UK

• £5 could enable us to study blood cancer cells and learn more about how they work by paying toward a special pipette for the sterile handling of cells in the lab.

• £10 could pay for one hour’s use of a flow cytometer. This would help our researchers to find and analyse the different type of cells in a sample.

• £25 could support one of our ground-breaking early-phase clinical trials by paying to analyse the DNA of a patient – which in turn can help us to develop new, better treatments.

• £100 could support a PhD student for one day to conduct vital research into blood cancers. Without PhD students, we wouldn’t be able to sustain the UK’s world-leading blood cancer research in the future – which we need to keep beating blood cancer.

• £100 could help researchers count and analyse thousands of blood cells a second.

Ward nine at Musgrove Park Hospital

Apollo high back drop arm patient chair £238.00

Overbed tables £323.68

Privacy curtain screen £628.37

Gola Reception chair £178.00

Patient Boston reclining chair £1547.21

Patient Colorado electric reclining chair £1989.00

Please could you help us by donating anything you can.

Thank you.