Matt Greenaway

Matt's London Marathon for Cure Leukaemia

Fundraising for Cure Leukaemia
£3,721
raised of £2,500 target
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Event: London Marathon 2022, on 2 October 2022
In 2022, Cure Leukaemia had it's biggest ever team taking on the TCS London Marathon to help raise vital funds for blood cancer patients across the UK.

Story

7th July 2017 was the worst day of my life.  My girlfriend (now wife) Jen was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, with a matter of days to survive without treatment.  She spent most of the next 7 months on Ward 625 of Birmingham's QEH and took part in the AML19 Clinical Trial.  

In February 2018 after 4 rounds of brutal chemotherapy and access to drugs on the trial which are now a standard of care for AML she was released and made a brilliant recovery. In September 2018 we both took part Cure Leukamia's London to Paris cycle ride.

We got married in 2021 and 5 years on from diagnosis I am taking on my first (and only) marathon for Cure Leukaemia. CL are a growing national charity raising vital funds for research offering patients across the UK hope in their battle Your generosity means Cure Leukaemia can help the prospects of blood cancer patients by funding more nurses and running more clinical trials through the Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP) network of 12 centres across the UK.

In short, your donation directly funds research into treatment and will enable more people like us to live brilliant lives after devastating diagnoses, and the pain of dragging myself round 26 miles is nothing compared to the brutality of cancer treatment.

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About the campaign

In 2022, Cure Leukaemia had it's biggest ever team taking on the TCS London Marathon to help raise vital funds for blood cancer patients across the UK.

About the charity

Cure Leukaemia

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Cure Leukaemia fund research nurses at 15 hospitals across the UK. These roles form the Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP) network giving patients, from a catchment area of 30m, access to potentially life-saving treatments through clinical trials, with plans to fund a paediatric network on the way.

Donation summary

Total raised
£3,721.00
+ £511.50 Gift Aid
Online donations
£2,826.00
Offline donations
£895.00

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