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Sally Welsh

Sally Welsh

Former nurse Sally Welsh retired five weeks before her husband Les was admitted to hospital. His Hodgkins Lymphoma diagnosis put an abrupt halt to their longed-for plans to travel together. Last year, at the age of 72, Sally undertook a 63-mile walk and raised almost...
Luke Kuttschreuter

Luke Kuttschreuter

The greatest gift for anyone with a cancer diagnosis is to give them precious time with their loved ones That’s what Dr Luke Kuttschreuter says, who, after years of working in oncology, discovered he wasn’t invincible to the disease himself. Last year, he was...
Patrick Carroll

Patrick Carroll

This cause means so much to me. Just three days before his 60th birthday, with a ‘cracking weekend in London planned to celebrate’ Patrick Carroll received the news that blew his world inside out. “I remember just sitting with my wife while we tried to process that I...
Pete Davis

Pete Davis

It makes you feel you have done something worthwhile. Dodging bullets and bombs in the Bosnian war was a traumatic time for Pete Davis, but nothing prepared him for the shock of finding out that what he thought was an annoying chest infection was actually inoperable...
Tina Dyer-Slade

Tina Dyer-Slade

I did something in memory of Chris and fulfilled his wishes that the charity should be recognised for the amazing work it does. Every stride of the gruelling London Marathon this year was a reminder for Tina Dyer-Slade of why she was taking part. As she pounded the...
Sarah Worth

Sarah Worth

I did the trek and all the other events for those who are battling cancer now and who will in the future. When Sarah Worth was asked if she would like to take part in a trek across the Sahara Desert to raise money for Hope for Tomorrow, no one could have known then...
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