Category: Fundraising

Next month sees the launch of one of our new fundraising challenges: Abseiling the Falkirk Wheel! Lianne from the Make 2nds Count Fundraising Team will be taking part in this epic challenge to raise money to help support secondary breast cancer patients.

We recently caught up with one of our ambassadors Marette, who's husband has signed up to take part in the London Marathon in April. We wanted to know a bit about Marette and why her husband has choose to fundraise for Make 2nds Count.

Make 2nds Count have had an incredible year of fundraising in 2023. As we look back at some of the amazing fundraising events we would like to thank all our supporters for all events big and small and for making it the year that it was.

‘Staying Alive: A Book Of Hope’ is a poetry book which was created by Seren Haf, Rachel Woods, Jill Davies and Lorraine Burroughs. This book has been created by women living with a secondary cancer diagnosis and shares their experiences through creative writing to offer strength and wisdom to anyone else affected by secondary cancer.

McCann Health London have been great supporters of Make 2nds Count and on 16th September 2023 they took a team of 30 employees to climb Ben Nevis. Louise Hewitt, Copy Director at McCann Health London has shared her fundraising story with us.

Anne Blacklock from Cheshire is one of Make 2nds Count Ambassadors and is the host of our Tea and a Chat group in Manchester. Anne decided to organise a Cabaret Show in aid of Make 2nds Count in the hope of raising £3,000.00.

'Golden Valley Half Marathon Charity Walk' also known as 'Carols Walk'. On Saturday 10th June 2023 Carol Goring and a very capable band of friends and family organised a walk to celebrate life, raise awareness about secondary breast cancer and raise funds for Make 2nds Count and other local cancer charities.

Craig took part in Race to the Stones which is a 100km ultramarathon from Lewknor to Avebury with 2 of his colleagues to raise funds for M2C following his wife Gemma's secondary breast cancer diagnosis in 2019. Here you can read more of Craig’s story.

Ed Hodges is one of our amazing fundraisers and, this year, he will be undertaking a series of challenges for Make 2nds Count. He has recently completed 51 Fiver Triathlon in May and Endure 24 Reading in June.

On 14th May 2023, Jake ran the Bristol half marathon in memory of his soon-to-be mother-in-law, Linda. Can you tell us a little about yourself?

We are sharing a very special blog today from one of our amazing fundraisers - Evan Moffitt, son of one of our Trustees, Heather.

He has chosen to share his personal story with us, and we are so proud and grateful to him for the opportunity to hear from him directly.

In October Make 2nds Count supporter, Sharon, took on the incredible challenge of swimming a mile a day for a week. She has kindly agreed to share why she took on this challenge and why Make 2nds Count is so important to her and her family.

“I'm Adam, I’m 33 and am an Actor and Puppeteer by trade. Since graduating The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, I have been fortunate to tour the UK and the world in Theatre shows mainly aimed for families.

Rachel is an incredible supporter of Make 2nds Count and today I would like to share her story with you. Rachel was diagnosed with 2 different types of breast cancer in 2016.

There are so many individual ways for you all to get involved in fundraising and we know that sometimes coming up with ideas is the hard part so we have arranged a few fundraisers that you can join us in over the next year. We have also put together a list of running/distance events throughout the country that you can sign up to.