It was a pleasure to be involved with the Leicester Cancer Community Network introductory session on Wednesday 21st October. Hosted at the wonderful Wesley Hall Community Centre the afternoon brought together charities, community organisations, healthcare partners and people with lived experience from across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland to launch the foundations of the Leicester Cancer Community Network (LCCN). Our shared ambition is simple: to ensure that no one fac

Money towards a new laptop for Leah from Newark.

We’re back for our next footy quiz! Fri 27th Nov 7pm Attleborough Liberal Club, Nuneaton, CV11 4JX Please contact us to book a team. Hope to see you all there.

We thoroughly enjoyed having a setup in the charity village at Run Leicester Festival. Massive well done to all the runners that smashed it! 1st year being a part of this event and it was great to be part of it. We look forward to next year!

Gift 547 - an iPad for Danielle from Nuneaton

Gift 546 - One4all gift cards for Alex from Nuneaton

Gift 545 - overnight stay with family at West Midlands Safari Park for Mark from Coventry

Gift 544 - One4all gift vouchers for Jennifer from Leicester.

Recent gifts provided to patients: 540 - One4all gift vouchers for young person from Coventry 541 - One4all gift vouchers for Tora from Leamington Spa

So grateful to Damien Whales and all the wonderful team at The Malcolm Whales Foundation for their continued support. This is a special partnership that we cherish. Many great memories shared together over the years on the iconic Dorset Walks. And these donations have enabled us to provide holidays to over 100 young adults with cancer at our holiday home in Mablethorpe.

Our wonderful trustee & patron, Stewart Sale, and his brilliant son, Josh, have woke up this morning at Belvoir Castle ready to take on Equinox24! Equinox24 is a 24 hour run event around a mixed terrain 10k loop against the clock. Go as far as you can in the allotted time. You can take on the event as teams or solo. Both Stewart and Josh are doing it solo. They will set off at 12:00pm today and finish 12:00pm tomorrow. Over £625 inc gift aid raised already which is incredible

Our 3rd year and what a brilliant Bimble it was. Big thanks to the 35 people that took time out of their Sunday morning to join us. Well done to our walking lead Sharon Paula and water and cake support Howard Parkin. From our Bimble bake sale yesterday and today’s donations we raised over £400 which covers the cost of a week holiday for a cancer patient and their family / friends at our holiday home. Thank you also to the lovely team The LimeKilns Burbage for hosting 23 of us

Huge thank you to all parkrunners and supporters at Hastings High School parkrun! A whopping £170 raised from the bake sale. As a local voluntary charity team every penny will go directly towards providing gifts, experiences and holidays to young adults with cancer. Massive thanks to Elaine Barrett RD who helped organise / bake, and Lauren Elmore of Elmo Bakes kindly donating an array of delicious items like tear share breads, sausage rolls, rocky road bites and granola bars

Sevenoaks to Paris 174 mile cycle in 24hrs. As if the challenge wasn’t big enough the guys were hit with a 2hr late ferry, 40mins delay at the port on arrival in Dieppe, 1hr 40mins thunderstorm, 3 flat tyres, and a broken phone which had the route on!! Talk about curveballs, but the guys pushed on and still managed to finish the challenge as planned. Danny, Ian and Billy have raised over £4.8k which will help provide holidays to 13 young adults with cancer. Incredible amount.

Gift number 539. Completed. - John Lewis vouchers for Michael from Market Harborough

Later this month on 27th August the wonderful Danny, Ian, Billy and Brandon will be cycling from Sevenoaks, Kent, to the Eiffel Tower in Paris to raise funds for Edgar's Gift. The challenge is particularly close to the hearts of the team as they are riding in memory of their family member, Gemma, who sadly passed away from cancer at the end of last year. The team have been putting in the hard miles in training , and an amazing effort into fundraising having raised over £2,50

A date for diaries! Our 2026 Bimble is set for Sunday 13th September All details in poster and we look forward to seeing as many there as possible

Edgar’s Gift cancer charity list of our latest wishes completed for patients. Massive acknowledgment to Julie Bradman for arranging these. Gift 531 - Money towards trip to Disneyland Paris for person from Warwickshire Gift 532 - Apple headphones for Lewis Gift 533 - A slide, an air fryer and paddling pool with pump for Amy from Nuneaton Gift 534 - A Coach tabby handbag for Brittany from Atherstone Gift 535 - Garden seating and a BBQ for Kirsty from Atherstone Gift 536 - Lenov

And our Edgar’s Gift World Cup Predictor champion is….. Andy Moore. Top of the leaderboard throughout… superb performance and well deserved. Well done to Andy Moore, Howard Parkin, Kim Mannion, and Matt Draper who all predicted Spain as the tournament winners! Huge thank you to all those that got involved, little bit of fun and fundraising Hopefully the leaderboard kept it interesting

We had the pleasure of joining our great friends The Malcolm Whales Foundation down in Dorset in July 600 brilliant school pupils and teachers travelled down from Cambridgeshire to the Jurassic Coast to take on the gruelling 3 day fundraising walk from Weymouth to Studland! Complete with the iconic Studland sprint finish We have done the walk many times but this weekend we volunteered helping with various tasks throughout each day. It was inspiring to see the colossal amount