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We are running the London Marathon in aid of the Karen Morris Memorial Trust and we're asking for your support. The pandemic severely impacted their fundraising and we'd appreciate any donation you can give, no matter how small, to help support leukaemia
patients and their families to alleviate the emotional pain of a leukaemia diagnosis and its treatment.

The Karen Morris Memorial Trust was set up to continue the fundraising initiative of Karen Morris who passed away in September 1998, just one year after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia. Your money will go towards funding the four Karen's Homes from Home for leading leukaemia departments: Hammersmith Hospital in London, the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

Karen’s Homes provide private on site accommodation for 13 families at any one time.  Each is a haven for patients’ families where they can relax in comfortable surroundings and a safe bolt hole for patients when they can escape the cabin fever of the isolation room, even if only for a few hours. And as the treatment for leukaemia moves to daily treatment but without the need to overnight in hospital there is a growing demand from patients themselves to stay.

They've also funded a number of complementary treatments for haematology patients which would not otherwise have been available, but which are proven to ease the emotional, and thereby the physical, pain of leukaemia patients and bring some comfort to their nearest and dearest.

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