Business Beats Cancer Cymru event at the Principality Stadium raised £55,132, in aid of Cancer Research UK.  All money raised that evening will now be used here in Wales to fund lifesaving research projects, in a bid to find cures.   Captivating the hearts and minds of guests on the evening were speakers Sophie Busson and Professor Alan Parker. Sophie works for Cancer Research UK and is Business Beats Cancer Cymru’s relationship manager.  She lives with stage four, incurable secondary breast…

BUZZ Parks would like to bring us all together to celebrate ‘Lucien’s Legacy’ and Cancer52!   Sadly, last year we lost our amazing colleague and friend Lucien to an exceptionally rare cancer (Thymic Mucinous Adenocarcinoma). On Saturday 28th May we will be celebrating Lucien’s Legacy in both our parks and would love for as many people to get involved as possible. On the day we will be fundraising with Cake Sales, Raffle, Tik Tok incentives plus more to come! Buzz…

Cardiff Tesco is encouraging people in the city to support Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life by popping to their local Tesco store to see it ‘turn pink’ this weekend (April 5th & 6th). The nationwide ‘Tesco Turns Pink’ weekend will see thousands of Tesco colleagues unite across the UK to raise vital funds to help beat cancer. Tesco colleagues across the city are set to embark on a variety of fun fundraising activities in-store, giving visitors the opportunity to…

Staff working for Bellway Wales – which has its divisional head office in Cardiff – have raised and donated an amazing £12,745 for Cancer Research UK over the past two years. Fundraising events were organised by employees from the Cardiff office in St Mellons and the division’s developments across South Wales and Gloucestershire, with the totals raised by staff boosted by double match funding from Bellway’s head office in Newcastle upon Tyne. Further events are now already being planned for…

Wear it pink takes place on Friday 20 October to raise money for vital breast cancer research This October, Breast Cancer Now is encouraging the UK public to dig out their pink glad rags for their flagship fundraiser, wear it pink, on Friday 20 October. Wear it pink, the UK’s biggest pink fundraiser which takes place during October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, calls on supporters to ditch their everyday colours and pull on some pink to raise money for Breast…

CANCER RESEARCH UK has tripled its investment in pancreatic cancer, one of the hardest cancers to treat, since launching its research strategy in 2014 – according to new figures published. The charity increased spending on pancreatic cancer research – including improving diagnosis and treatment – to £18million in the 2015/16 financial year, tripling the £6million investment in 2013/14. One of the charity’s aims is to help tackle the rising rates of pancreatic cancer, in particular in women, as well as…

Campaigners in Wales are celebrating as legislation to phase out brightly coloured and slickly designed tobacco packaging in the UK takes effect tomorrow (Friday). All tobacco products must now be produced in plain, standardised packs with large picture health warnings. Shops and retailers have 12 months to sell existing packets. Cancer Research UK began campaigning for plain, standardised packaging in April 2012 and more than 90,000 people from across the UK took action to support the campaign. The Welsh Assembly…

 In response to today’s NHS statistics which show that cancer waiting times targets in Wales have once again been missed, Anneka Hughes, Cancer Research UK’s public affairs officer in Wales, said: “It’s deeply concerning that these critical targets have been missed yet again.” “For someone who suspects they may have cancer, waiting for news is an extremely anxious time. It’s crucial that once patients are diagnosed they get the treatments they need quickly to have the best chance of survival.”…

In partnership with British Military Fitness, you will test your endurance to the limit with this truly gruelling challenge, that will challenge your physical fitness, mental ability and determination. Departing from Cardiff in the evening on Friday 8th July 2016, we will start at the base Snowdon, making our way down to Cader Idris, where we climb 892m and then head back to South Wales where we power through to the final climb of Pen-Y-Fan. Transport, food and instructors are provided,…

A man from Cardiff is joining the partner of one of the first cancer patients to be injected with new a tumour-destroying vaccine to take on a challenge in May to raise money for charity.   Chris Hayes is joining Roger Sanford, 40, and a team of nine from financial provider company, Syscap, to fundraise for Dimbleby Cancer Care by taking part in the UK’s greatest endurance challenge – a 100km event in which participants can walk, jog or run…