Do 60-mile challenge to boost charity funds
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SEPTEMBER is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and as the UK’s leading charity supporting children and young people with cancer, CLIC Sargent, is highlighting the financial impact of cancer on families.
In the UK it’s an average 60-mile round trip to hospital for children and young people to get to lifesaving cancer treatment, with many travelling much further. This isn’t by choice. Many young cancer patients have to travel to specialist cancer centres around the UK to get the care they need – they can’t just go to their local hospital.
That 60-mile trip can cost families an extra £180 a month when treatment is at its most intense.
This is at a time when other costs have risen and one or both parents may have given up their job or cut back their hours so they can be with their child.
It’s bad enough that families are having to deal with the devastation of their child having cancer, but many are struggling with the cost of taking their child to hospital and many are being plunged into debt. On top of the emotional and practical stresses of cancer, this isn’t right or fair. People in the community can help support families facing cancer by getting a CLIC Sargent gold ribbon pin badge. They’re available at Morrisons stores, JD Wetherspoon pubs or selected H Samuel and Ernest Jones stores, or order one online, for a suggested donation of £1.
We also have lots of fundraising opportunities and are calling on the community to sign up to Challenge60. You could run 60 miles throughout the month (two miles a day), complete a 60-mile bike ride, or even hop – we don’t mind! We’d like to thank the community for their ongoing support. Their efforts mean CLIC Sargent can be there for the children and young people of South Wales with cancer, keeping families supported by our care team and providing grants to help with the costs of cancer.
For more information about Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, visit: www.clicsargent.org. uk/ccam
Cerys Sadler, CLIC Sargent Fundraising Engagement Manager South & Mid Wales
Three years and still no agreement
IN ALL areas of the political divide concerning Brexit still no proper agreement has been in any way convincing for the electorate as a whole.
Surely with three years to formulate a proper debated agenda without perplexing reservations and continual disagreement on all sides suggests utter disregard for the electorate.
Taking examples from consultant GPs when they have complicated cases to explain they consider them with respectfulness and fairly promptly.
What I’m saying is Brexit and Remain should follow likewise, instead of pressing reactionary views. Unreasonable acceptance of both side’s views is a major stumbling point, and should come for real consideration sooner not later. Peter McKendry
Splott, Cardiff
It’s bad enough that families are having to deal with the devastation of their child having cancer...
A divided party
WOULD the real Labour Party policy on Brexit please stand up.
Tom Watson wants a referendum then a general election. While Jeremy Corbyn wants a general election then negotiate a new deal which is a dream. In which he would take this imaginary deal to a referendum, with most of his cabinet voting against it as members of a remain campaign. If the Labour Party is not going to stand up for Wales, then people who want another referendum have an alternative by joining and voting Plaid Cymru. Boris is afraid of a referendum and Jeremy is afraid of a general election.
Andrew Nutt Bargoed
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