Wayne Johns

Wayne's Guinness World Record Pinball marathon - Successfully Broken

Fundraising for Well Wishers
£5,130
raised of £5,000 target
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Guinness World Record Attempt - Pinball marathon, 22 October 2016
Well Wishers

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We Are raising funds for Walsall Healthcare to Walsall Manor and Community Services

Story

My father has terminal prostate cancer.

Sorry to open with such a blunt statement, but that is what is happening.

In the UK alone:

  • 47,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year - that's about 130 per day.
  • 10,800 men per year die from prostate cancer - that's 1 every hour.
  • 1 in 8 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime.

The annoying thing is that in a lot of instances prostate cancer is treatable - IF treatment starts early enough. However a vast majority of men, my father included, choose to ignore the symptoms until it's too late. Whether they ignore the symptoms through ignorance, fear, or embarrassment the result is the same - the cancer progresses too far.

I am doing this fund-raising attempt for 4 reasons

  1. To raise awareness of the importance of getting symptoms checked out by your GP as soon as they present themselves.
  2. To raise much needed funds for equipment to be donated to the Urology department at Walsall Manor Hospital
  3. To do it while my father is still alive to see me doing it, rather than doing it in memory of.
  4. Who wouldn't want to break a Guinness World Record?

So please donate what you can.

Thank you for reading.

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About the charity

Well Wishers

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Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides local general hospital & community services to around 260,000 people in Walsall and the surrounding areas. We are the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall. Thank you for your donation. Contact Georgie Westley on 01922 656643.

Donation summary

Total raised
£5,130.00
+ £605.00 Gift Aid
Online donations
£4,220.00
Offline donations
£910.00

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