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INTRODUCTION

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I am delighted to welcome you to the Spring edition of Pancreatic Cancer UK’s newsletter.

For those of you that don’t know me, I have been a Trustee at the charity for four years, and more recently taken on the role of Chair. In this time I have seen the charity grow considerably and I am incredibly proud of both the staff and supporters alike for all that they do to campaign, raise awareness and generate funds.

However there is still a very long way to go in order to change the shockingly low survival statistics for the disease, and as we explain on page four, this will only happen as a result of significant investment in pancreatic cancer research. For our part we are very excited to be the recipient of a very generous legacy; to be funding several new research projects throughout the UK, as well forming a recent funding partnership with Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office.

We’ve had such a busy time at the charity since the last newsletter, so do take the time to read the highlights in the pages that follow. In particular, Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month (PCAM) was a great success with so many of you lighting the night sky purple with glow sticks, not to mention your amazing help with getting venues, such as Blackpool Tower, Spinnaker Tower and the Brighton Wheel on board too.

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Sarah Roberts Chair of Trustees

The lighting up of buildings in purple also extended to the first ever World Pancreatic Cancer Day (WPCD) which took place on 13th November when charities from around the globe came together to raise awareness of the disease. Our Deputy Chief Execuitve, Clara Mackay chaired the steering group for WPCD and we were thrilled with how it went.

The past six months have seen some magnificent fundraising ventures including Call Everyone Dave Day (in fond memory of actor Roger Lloyd Pack), Beethoven Choral Symphony Gala concert at the Royal Festival Hall and our Trek for Hope, which was our first ever bespoke trek of the Great Wall of China, and raised £120,000.

One of our core services is our Support Line and I am pleased to announce this now has a Freephone number and is staffed by two additional Pancreatic Cancer Nurse Specialists. For an update on our regional pilots and forthcoming Supporter Days refer to pages 12-13, and to find out more about the situation regarding Abraxane, as well as to catch up on more campaigning news, turn to page 14.

I would also like to take this opportunity to give a warm welcome to two new trustees, Lynne Walker and Carole Challen. Both Lynne and Carole were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009 and so bring their own very personal experience to the board, as well as their professional expertise.

The final welcome goes to Madness frontman, Suggs. He has been a supporter of the charity for a number of years through the annual fundraiser he hosts, but we are thrilled he is now an Ambassador. For the third consecutive year ‘An Evening with Suggs and Friends’ took place in March, and was once again a huge success!

Thank you so much for your support and I really hope you enjoy our newsletter.

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A FOCUS ON RESEARCH

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Currently, there are no suitable markers or simple tests to support screening and early diagnosis of the disease, and very few effective drug treatments. Most patients, about 80%, are diagnosed when the disease is too advanced for surgery – the only curative treatment for pancreatic cancer.

We still do not know enough about pancreatic cancer progression and resistance to therapy to understand why the disease does not respond well to the cancer drugs that are available. Unless we tackle these critical challenges we stand no long-term hope of improving survival, or of ensuring that everyone diagnosed with pancreatic cancer has the chance to live as long and as good a life as possible.

Despite a survival rate of just 4% after five years, pancreatic cancer receives only 1% (£5.2 million) of the total cancer research spend, including government funding.

Steady and sustainable growth is desperately needed in pancreatic cancer research, but first a minimum level of investment is required to reach a point where real progress can start to be made. This would mean a solid research infrastructure would need to be in place, for instance through the establishment of more centres of research excellence, as well as a critical mass of researchers generating competitive research proposals.

In order to see survival rates rise, we have calculated through our own high level analysis, a minimum investment of £10-£12 million annual investment would need to be achieved. This is more than double the investment in pancreatic cancer research at the moment. In fact, in order to truly address this legacy of neglect and tackle pancreatic cancer in the UK in a meaningful way we need to increase investment in research to £25 million per year by 2022.

THE RESEARCH cHALLENGE

Pancreatic cancer is a complex and hard to treat disease.

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Pancreatic cancer is the 6th largest cause of cancer death in

Scotland, with 742 deaths recorded in 2012. In recognition of this we have joined forces with the CSO to support vital research into earlier diagnosis and more effective treatments. Together we will offer funding worth up to £150,000 (two projects of £75,000 each) to researchers in Scotland

through our Research Innovation Fund. Specifically, the partnership will focus on funding translational research that bridges the gap between work in the laboratory and the treatment and care of pancreatic cancer patients. We hope to announce the 1st awards under this scheme in Autumn 2015.

A new funding partnership

www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/research [email protected]

We are delighted to announce a new collaborative funding partnership with Scotland’s Chief Scientist Office (CSO) to fund research into pancreatic cancer.

How you can help us

Pancreatic Cancer UK has a vital role to play in achieving these research funding targets.

We receive no government funding for any of our work and rely solely on donations and fundraising. That is why we are so truly grateful to you all for your support. In the 2014/15 financial year alone, you have enabled us to commit £1million to research projects throughout the UK.

We have also been incredibly fortunate to be the recipient of a legacy from a lady called Dee Baillie, who specifically wanted her gift of £1.3million to be put towards research. You can find out more about this wonderful announcement, and how you too can leave a gift in your Will to Pancreatic Cancer UK, on page 17.

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A FOCUS ON RESEARCH

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In the Autumn we awarded Dr Steve Pereira (pictured) and a team of researchers from University College London, the Royal Free Hospital and the University of Liverpool £379,722 for their project that seeks to create a rapid diagnostic pathway for patients with pancreatic cancer. This project has been made possible due to a consortium of donors including Fiorina, Gemma’s Fund and Nicki’s Smile which are supporting the project via us, as well as funds raised from an exclusive Loch Lomond golf event organised by our Development Fund Board.

Despite advances in diagnostic technology, pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed late and at an incurable stage, whilst earlier diagnosis is directly linked to improved survival. Although numerous biomarkers for pancreatic cancer have been reported, none have been adopted into routine clinical practice and alternative diagnostic strategies are urgently required.

The team’s on-going research efforts have identified promising early biomarkers of pancreatic cancer and have also shown that early symptoms are often not recognised. The team will also test promising candidate biomarkers specifically for the detection of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (PNETs), using newly collected patient samples and those collected from women prior to their diagnosis.

The work will provide primary care physicians with a rapid diagnostic pathway for patients with all pancreatic cancer subtypes by implementing early detection tests in symptomatic, ‘at-risk’ patients.

The latest research to be funded by Pancreatic Cancer UK

It has been an exciting few months for research at the charity with two new major projects underway.

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We have also recently funded Dr Jo Todd (pictured 2nd from right) for a two-year project at the University of Southampton worth £47,356 with the kind support of the Masonic Samaritan Fund.

Jo is one of our Pancreatic Cancer UK Future Research Leaders so we are delighted to be able to support the next stage of her career.

We know that less than 20% of pancreatic cancer patients are suitable for surgical treatment due to late diagnosis of the disease by which time the tumour has

already spread into adjacent tissues. Understanding how these cells start to spread is a fundamental challenge in all cancers and something we as a charity are actively researching.

Dr Jo Tod and her team will look at the role of a number proteins thought to be involved in pancreatic cancer invasion and spread. These proteins have been suggested as a potential target for pancreatic cancer treatment therapies so understanding the mechanisms underlying it’s critical functions is vital.

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PCAM was a great success!

Thank you to all those that got involved in Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month (PCAM) 2014. Here are some highlights!

Raising awareness We sent out nearly 400 packs which enabled supporters to raise awareness throughout the UK

Purple Lights for Hope• Nearly 4000 purple glow sticks lit up the

sky – even our Trek for Hope participants took part on the Great Wall of China

• 60 venues lit up purple in the UK for Pancreatic Cancer UK including the Blackpool Tower and the fountains in Trafalgar Square

• 45 supporters held private Purple Lights for Hope events such a bonfire parties and twilight walks. In addition, many people decorated their houses in purple lights

OnlineWe had a phenomenal response online during PCAM, particularly on 1st (the launch of Purple Lights for Hope) and on 13th (World Pancreatic Cancer Day) November. It was fantastic to see so many of you engaging with us and sharing content, helping to raise awareness of the charity and the cause.

Fundraising You raised nearly £33,000 during PCAM 2014. Most of this was as a result of Host for Hope events, for which we were lucky enough to have recipes and hosting tips from celebrities, Tim Lovejoy, Simon Rimmer, Daisy Goodwin, Howard Middleton and John Campbell.

Our first ever bespoke Trek for Hope (Great Wall of China) took place at the end of October and raised a magnificent £120,000! Why not sign up for our trek this year? Find out more on page 19.

Support and Information Nearly 6700 pieces of patient information were sent out to health professionals working with pancreatic cancer patients, including nearly 1000 Newly Diagnosed Packs. Plus nine hospitals held awareness events.

Campaigning Finally, we held awareness-raising receptions in the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly. Find out more on page 15.

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This year we are delighted to be extending our health professional training programme to carry out more regional events across the UK, starting with Leeds and Cambridge. These regional learning and sharing events are aimed mainly at nurses and dieticians involved in the care of patients with pancreatic cancer– including Upper Gastrointestinal (Upper GI) and Hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) clinical nurse specialists, ward nurses, palliative care nurses, private sector nurses, community/hospice nurses, as well as specialist and community dieticians.

These are partnership events, and we work closely with the teams at the regional specialist centres to formulate a programme which addresses key learning areas in pancreatic cancer. The teams help source speakers from their local region and provide a venue, while Pancreatic Cancer UK staff work alongside them to provide event administration and fund the event, which is provided to delegates free of charge.

All of the learning events include sessions on managing dietary symptoms and pancreatic enzymes, the patient or carer perspective, as well as updates on new treatments/techniques for pancreatic cancer.

The first of these events took place on Thursday 26th March 2015 at Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds. It was hosted by members of the Leeds Pancreatic Unit, who also chaired the day.

The second event will take place on Friday 5th June at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, on the Addenbrooke’s Hospital site. This event will be hosted by the HPB clinical nurse specialists from Addenbrookes, and will focus on the surgical, dietary and oncological aspects of the pancreatic cancer journey.

We are also planning to hold two further events in the West Midlands and Northern Ireland in 2015 as part of our regional pilot work.

You can find out more about these events by emailing [email protected]

Helping Health Professionals share and learn across the UK

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“I have been a registered nurse for 10 years after completing my training in Suffolk. I worked in a general NHS trust before specialising in palliative care in a hospice setting, initially based in an in-patient unit caring for patients with chronic long-term and terminal illness and disease.

I was attracted to this position at Pancreatic Cancer UK as it afforded me the opportunity to provide individual support to patients and families via the Support Line and Discussion Forum as well as to be involved in working to improve care at a national level through involvement in campaigning activities and helping to organise health professional study days.

I feel very privileged to be working with the team at Pancreatic Cancer UK having seen what fantastic work they do. I hope my experience in caring for those at the end of their life will contribute to improving the patient journey and experience of those affected by pancreatic cancer. I also look forward to building links with specialist centres in London and the South East.”

Chris Gilbert

We have expanded our Services team to include two new Pancreatic Cancer Specialist Nurses. We are also delighted to announce our Support Line is now a Freephone number.

Calls to our Support Line will go direct to a nurse Monday to Friday. If the line is busy, they will get back to you within 24 hours (48 hours if you call or email over the weekend). Find out more about our new recruits below.

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Welcome to our two new pancreatic cancer specialist nurses

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“I have been nursing for 19 years and worked in cancer care from the outset. I have experience of working in a Hospice and spent six years working in a specialist centre in London. For the last seven years I have worked in Clinical Trials

in Northern Ireland.

Whilst working at the specialist centre in London, I completed my degree in Cancer Nursing (BSc Hons) and had the opportunity to help deliver an education programme about caring for patients with cancer, to nurses and allied health professionals working in general settings.

Most recently, my experience has involved caring for and supporting patients with upper and lower GI cancers, including patients with pancreatic cancer (and their

family/carers) taking part or considering taking part in clinical trials.

I believe working for Pancreatic Cancer UK is a fantastic opportunity to raise the profile and awareness of pancreatic cancer in Northern Ireland and in turn to hopefully improve the outcome and experiences of this patient group. I’m really passionate about providing the best service for patients as the sad fact is that often this group of patients do not have the best experience due to late diagnosis.

I believe the most important aspect of this role in terms of patients and their families will be in providing them with time, and to give them the resources they need to make informed choices in relation to their treatment and care options.

I am based in Northern Ireland and will also be helping Pancreatic Cancer UK to develop local services and to build links with the hospital teams in this area.”

Support Line: Freephone 0808 801 0707 [email protected]

Rachel Convery

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MICHELLE PENNEY

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“I am delighted to be joining Pancreatic Cancer UK as Community Involvement Coordinator in Northern Ireland. I have an affinity with the organisation as I

lost my father to pancreatic cancer in 2010, and feel passionate about the care, support and information available to people living with and affected by pancreatic cancer.

I have a background in complementary therapies, volunteer management, project management and service development, having worked extensively in the public, private and charitable sectors.

I look forward to meeting Pancreatic Cancer UK supporters in Northern Ireland very soon.”

Extending our reach Regional Pilot

As part of our aim to extend our reach to all areas of the UK, we have embarked on an ambitious pilot project in two specific regions. They are Northern Ireland and THE West Midlands.

We are delighted to have two new Community Involvement Co-ordinators working in these areas who, together with a Specialist Nurse, will ensure that our supporters are given more opportunities to get involved in the work of the charity from lobbying local MPs, to helping promote our services or taking part in awareness-raising activities.

The aim is also to establish stronger links within the community, creating an enhanced Pancreatic Cancer UK presence in these

areas, so that patients and supporters have easier access to services.

The pilot will run for the duration of this year and is being monitored and evaluated at every stage. If it is successful, we will look to see how we can develop this model in other parts of the UK.

Our two Community Involvement Coordinators are Michelle Penney for Northern Ireland and Bal Kang-Mohr for the West Midlands pilot. Read more about them here.

[email protected]

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Bal Kang-Mohr

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“I am one of the newly appointed Community Involvement Coordinators for Pancreatic Cancer UK. My area is West Midlands – which is quite large but I am

currently concentrating on Birmingham and the immediate area.

My aim is to organise Supporter Days, specifically for people who live in this area, the first of which took place on the 20th March. We have also set up support group meetings in different locations in

Birmingham and the surrounding area. Check Pancreatic Cancer UK’s website for more details.

I am really excited about this role and hope to build up increased awareness of pancreatic cancer in the community, working towards a larger scale event in November during Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.

I hope to contact and meet more supporters in the forthcoming weeks.”

Supporter Events

In addition to Regional Supporter Days in the pilot regions, which will have a very local focus, we will be holding two larger National Supporter Days. The first National Supporter Day will be held in Manchester on Wednesday 1st July and the second in Oxford on Wednesday 7th October. These days will provide an opportunity for supporters from across the UK to come together, share ideas and experiences and hear updates on the work of Pancreatic Cancer UK along with the latest research developments.

We welcome anyone who has been affected by pancreatic cancer to attend our National Supporter Days including patients, survivors and those who have lost family members to the disease.

Further details will be available on our website and social networks in the near future.http://www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/getinvolved

[email protected]

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Our Two More Months campaign aims to ensure the new pancreatic cancer drug Abraxane® is made available on the NHS for eligible patients across the UK. Abraxane, when used in combination with another drug gemcitabine, has been found to extend patients’ lives for an average of just over two months, although in some cases significantly longer, compared to standard chemotherapy alone.

Campaigning and policy news

An update: Two More Months campaign

In March 2014, Abraxane was added to the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) for England and we are delighted to report further success since then.

Wales approved Abraxane in September 2014 and Scotland followed suit in February this year. We took an active role in lobbying for these decisions, for instance by taking part in a special Patient And Clinician Engagement (PACE) meeting in Glasgow to make sure the voices of patients and carers were properly heard.

Thank you to all of you who contacted your local representatives, spoke to your local

press or supported the Two More Months campaign in other ways – you have helped to make sure we achieved this vital result.

The hard work does not stop here. There is still a threat that Abraxane could be removed from the CDF in England, even though the petition we presented to 10 Downing Street in December helped to ensure that it stays on for now, at least. We are lobbying hard to make sure the drug remains on the CDF longer-term and also to try to get Abraxane made available to eligible patients in Northern Ireland.

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Thanks to Maggie Watts’ superb e-petition, an excellent House of Commons debate was held in September, which many MPs took part in. Since then there have been other debates on pancreatic cancer in the Commons, maintaining momentum in Westminster.

In November, for the first time we saw motions acknowledging it was Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month (PCAM) tabled in each of the Parliaments and Assemblies across the UK. There was also a debate in the Northern Ireland Assembly (thanks to supporter Kerry Irvine for making that happen), and we held special PCAM receptions in the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly, bringing together patients, carers, family members, clinicians, researchers, politicians and policy-makers.

Special thanks to supporters Steve Lewis, Linda Reardon and Kim Rowan for helping to make sure the PCAM receptions were a success.

The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pancreatic Cancer continued its work, producing an authoritative report making recommendations about how to increase research into pancreatic cancer. The reception for the report launch in the Commons was attended by the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, as well as the Public Health Minister, Jane Ellison. Our amazing Ambassador Suggs (pictured with our Chief Executive Alex Ford and Eric Ollerenshaw MP) was also there, to add a bit of stardust.

But we must not rest on our laurels and we continue to spread the word amongst politicians at every opportunity. On the 17th and 18th February we ran an exhibition stand jointly with Pancreatic Cancer Scotland at the Scottish Parliament and spoke to 37 MSPs over the two days. We made the case for better awareness, diagnosis, treatment and care, as well as for more research.

Political campaigning roundup

We continue to campaign across the whole of the UK and our political engagement has picked up pace over the past six months, increasing awareness of pancreatic cancer amongst politicians and policy-makers.

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In January, NHS England announced plans to develop a new Cancer Strategy for the next five years, setting up an independent ‘Cancer Task Force’ to help them do so. This is being Chaired by the Chief Executive of Cancer Research UK, Harpal Kumar, and made up of cancer doctors, patient groups and charity leaders.

Campaigning and policy news

Cancer Strategy Taskforce

We are delighted that our very own Clara Mackay (pictured) is part of the Task Force, wearing her other hat, that of Chair of Cancer 52, a group that brings together charities representing rare and less common cancers.

Pancreatic Cancer UK has made its own submission to the Task Force, which asked us to highlight three key areas that need addressing to raise standards of cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care.

In our response we have called for a special focus on ‘cancers of unmet need’ – those with stubbornly low survival rates, like pancreatic cancer. We would like to see research and access to new treatments for these cancer types prioritised, to radically improve patient outcomes.

We also want to see changes to referral pathways, to make sure pancreatic cancer patients are not only diagnosed earlier, but start treatment more quickly following diagnosis.

Finally we urged for a more holistic approach to patient care. For instance, we need enough Cancer Nurse Specialists to support patients and their families; early and consistent access to specialist nutritional and dietary advice; good end of life care; and appropriate bereavement counselling for family members who have lost loved ones to the disease.

The Task Force will publish an interim report in March and we will continue to play a role in the development of a new Cancer Strategy for England over the coming months.

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In 2014 Dee Baillie contacted us for information about our research, and to find out how she could leave a gift in her Will to Pancreatic Cancer UK. Our Fundraising Team gave her all the information she might need and thanked her for considering us. Equipped with this information Dee spoke to her solicitor and amended her Will leaving her residuary estate to Pancreatic Cancer UK.

A generous gift to help us fight pancreatic cancer

A gift in your Will is a wonderful way to make a donation towards the work of Pancreatic Cancer UK.

If you are interested in leaving a Legacy of Hope for those affected by the disease please visit our website or contact Claire on 020 7820 6702 or [email protected]

Dee showed an interest in our work and was keen for any funds to go towards research in to the fight against pancreatic cancer.

Sadly Miss Baillie died last Autumn. Shortly after we received the lovely news that she had left us a legacy of approximately £1.3 million. We were saddened to hear of Dee’s death, but so grateful to her for thinking of us.

For us, a donation of this magnitude is absolutely transformational. The funds have allowed us to plough significant additional funds in to our research programme which we just wouldn’t have been able to do without this major donation.

Walking the CoursesRichard Farquhar is taking on the challenge of a lifetime and walking 2,750 miles between 60 racecourses in the UK. This epic, blister-inducing challenge starts in March and will take 13 months. Richard needs your help. If you can join him as he arrives at a racecourse near you and assist with bucket collections or walk around the course with him before the races, do sign up on the Walking the Courses page on our website. www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/walkingthecourses

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Beethoven Choral SymphonyOn 13th January we held our first ever concert at the Royal Festival Hall. 1750 guests listened to our Ambassador, and world famous clarinettist, Michael Collins conduct the Philharmonia Orchestra and Philharmonia Chorus. The programme included the Triple Concerto; at which three up and coming young soloists delivered a composed and lively performance. The concert ended on an inspiring (and loud!) note with Beethoven’s 9th, an iconic and uplifting piece of music.

We would like to thank all the musicians involved, the audience who attended and our sponsors KPMG, The Macallan, Classic FM and Hazard Chase who all supported us at the gala concert.

Our second Call Everyone Dave Day, on 8th February was a huge success. This day, created to honour Actor Roger Lloyd Pack, and inspired by a character that he famously played, went crazy on social media. With support from such amazing celebrities as David Jason (who did a wonderful video for us), Stephen Fry, Tim Lovejoy (pictured), Julie Hesmondhalgh, Suggs and John Challis, we reached around 15 million people and we were the top UK trend on Twitter that morning! So, if you didn’t get in on the act, look out for Dave Day next year, eh Dave?

www.calleveryonedaveday.com

Date for the diary:Our 2016 Royal Festival Hall event will take place on 21st April 2016. More details to follow.

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17-25 October 2015

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“The Trek for Hope for Pancreatic Cancer UK was honestly the hardest thing physically and emotionally that I have ever done, that said it was also the most rewarding! I decided to do the trek in memory of my Dad who sadly passed away to pancreatic cancer only 3 weeks after diagnosis. … I think doing it with a bespoke group for the same cause somehow bought us closer together instantly! If you are thinking about doing it ... DO IT.”

Realise a dream and come with us on a five-day trek along The Great Wall of China.

This trek is exclusive to Pancreatic Cancer UK and is a great opportunity for you to meet new friends. Read more on our website or call the office to discuss it with Hannah, our Fundraising Officer, who did the trek last year.

www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/trekforhope

Trekking not for you? Visit the website for a wealth of other challenges from skydiving to running, walking and cycling. Or set up your own challenge. The Fundraising Team are always happy to hear about your ideas.

www.pancreaticcancer.org.uk/fundraise

Louise – 2014 trekker

Trek for Hope, Great Wall of China

Suggs: our new Ambassador

Having supported us for three consecutive years through hosting An Evening with Suggs and Friends, we are delighted to now announce that Madness frontman, Suggs, has agreed to be an Ambassador of Pancreatic Cancer UK. We very much look forward to working with him in the future.

“My wife Anne's sister, Alanah, was such a big part of our lives. She radiated the most extraordinary, non judgemental joy everywhere she went. She is no longer here. Her illness and death from pancreatic cancer came as a huge shock to us all and at her wake we vowed to do something to help research into pancreatic cancer. I am delighted to be an Ambassador for Pancreatic Cancer UK and will do all I can to support the charity.”

Suggs

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