Rosemere Cancer Foundation

Rosemere Cancer Foundation Supporting world class cancer care across Lancashire & South Cumbria. Reg Charity No. 1131583.

❤🙌 Thanks so much to all involved at the Chipping Steam Fair committee for the generous support following this year's ev...
06/10/2026

❤🙌 Thanks so much to all involved at the Chipping Steam Fair committee for the generous support following this year's event!

We were delighted to receive a donation of £1,500 at last month's presentation evening - we hugely appreciate your continued support, which helps us continue to make a real difference for the benefit of local cancer patients.

Thank you too to our fab team of volunteers who ran our charity gazebo over the Steam Fair weekend, raising over £560 for us - we're so grateful for your hard work and dedication! 🥰

📣🤩 Our annual winter raffle is back - with a top prize of £1,000 cash! Do you fancy your chances? As well as our fab fir...
05/10/2026

📣🤩 Our annual winter raffle is back - with a top prize of £1,000 cash! Do you fancy your chances?

As well as our fab first prize, our runner up prizes include:
💎 A white gold diamond pendant donated by Beaverbrooks the Jewellers
🛌 An overnight stay for two, with breakfast, at award-winning country pub The Fleece Inn
⭐ A Nilfisk VP300 vacuum cleaner donated by Beta Solutions Ltd
⭐ A £200 voucher for Gainsborough Flooring
⭐ A luxury hamper from Rosemere supporter Margaret Harwood
🥦 £50 voucher for WOODS FARM SHOP, Preston (two prizes)
🎄 A fun festive hamper from Crafts by Claire

Kindly sponsored by 24/7 Fire and Security Protection Ltd this year, our raffle tickets are just £1 each - and with each ticket sold, you'll be directly supporting life-changing local cancer projects for patients cared for here at the Rosemere Cancer Centre at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and across the region ❤

Fancy a flutter? Buy your tickets from our charity office, or online here: https://rosemere.org.uk/winter-raffle-2026/

It's been amazing to see so many of you signing up to join us for our annual Walk the Lights down Blackpool's famous Pro...
02/10/2026

It's been amazing to see so many of you signing up to join us for our annual Walk the Lights down Blackpool's famous Prom tonight! We can't wait to see you all later 🙌🤩

And if you meant to register for the walk but missed the online cut off - or if you're just looking for something to do tonight and this sounds like your cup of tea - why not come along!

You can sign up tonight for £15 per adult at the start line at Bispham, between 6 and 7.30pm. It's a fun, family-friendly way to support your local cancer charity, and have a great night out taking in the iconic illuminations too! 🌟🗼🎡✨

To all of our wonderful walkers - THANK YOU 🙏 We'll see you in a few hours, and please remember to wrap up warm for that Blackpool breeze! 🥰

02/10/2026

🎙 Did anyone catch our lovely Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust oncology colleague (and regular Rosemere supporter) Tracey Palmer on BBC Lancashire with Nishma Hindocha recently?

She was on talking her own cancer journey and about the impact of her hair loss had, following her treatment for breast cancer here at the Rosemere Cancer Centre.

You can see a few clips on the video (we love the Christmas pudding ❤) or listen again to the interview using the link below - she's on at just after 2 hours 11 minutes!

Thanks so much for sharing your story, Tracey, and for all of your support - you're an inspiration! ❤🙌

Thank you to all involved at Blackburn Road Runners, who picked us as their chosen charity for the last 12 months - and ...
01/10/2026

Thank you to all involved at Blackburn Road Runners, who picked us as their chosen charity for the last 12 months - and succeeded in raising a wonderful £8,200! 👏

We were nominated as the club’s charity of the year by committee member Debs Clucas. She joined the road runners 12 years ago to train for longer distance runs after successfully completing the Couch to 5k Challenge.

Having run three London Marathons and seven half marathons, Debs was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in August 2024, which was initially detected by a routine mammogram.

Following her shock diagnosis, Debs underwent immediate surgery followed by six months of chemotherapy and 20 sessions of radiotherapy, which she had at the Rosemere Cancer Centre here at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria’s regional specialist cancer treatment and radiotherapy centre.

Debs rang the cancer centre’s end of treatment bell last summer but is still taking cancer preventative medication, which has slowed her return to running. Debs said: “I owe my life to East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and Rosemere Cancer Centre. Without them, I wouldn’t be here.

“I had no symptoms of anything being wrong. I just attended a routine screening. I now take part in local park runs with club members but I am currently walking them. I started off just doing the one lap but now I’m up to the full 5k distance. In the future, I’m hoping to get back to running them and then building on that.”

Over the last year, Debs has been involved in organising an auction of promises, Christmas Eve and Easter Club runs as well as other monthly club events to help raise their donation, while other club members have run this year’s London Marathon and City of Preston Road Race to add to the total 🙌

Club welfare officer Debbie Bolton was also sponsored to join our fundraising expedition to Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex last November to boost funds. Debs said: “I’m incredibly grateful to my family and everyone at Blackburn Road Runners for helping me get through my diagnosis, treatment and for supporting my Rosemere Cancer Foundation fundraising.”

Our head of charities Dan Hill, who is also the club’s vice chair and charity co-ordinator, commented: “Debs nominated Rosemere Cancer Foundation after her own cancer experience and use of Rosemere Cancer Centre.

“Debs spearheaded all the fundraising efforts with the support of members. She’s done a fantastic job. Thank you to her and everyone involved for this incredible donation.”

Well done and thank you to all of you for thinking of us - this fantastic total will help us continue to make a real difference for local cancer patients ❤

Thank you to all at Whalley Corn Mills Ltd for the wonderful continued support with your annual fundraising event! ❤Stor...
30/09/2026

Thank you to all at Whalley Corn Mills Ltd for the wonderful continued support with your annual fundraising event! ❤

Store staff turned their yearly fundraising open day for us into an event that paid tribute to their much loved colleague Kath Ormiston, who passed away in June following a cancer diagnosis earlier in the year 🙏

Kath had worked at Whalley Corn Mills for more than 30 years. Store manager Pam Floyd said: “Besides her family, Kath had two passions, horses and dogs. She loved both as was evident in the work she did and her more than 40 years of involvement with Accrington & District Riding Club during which time, Kath held various committee roles.

“In tribute to Kath, we changed the format of our fundraising event this year so that we could host a horse show and a dog show. Both proved incredibly popular, so much so that we raised more than £3,000 on the day, which is the most we have ever raised in our 15 years or so of Rosemere open days.”

The horse show, which was organised by Accrington & District Riding Club, had 33 classes, and more than 100 dogs were entered into the dog show, which was split into 10 classes and kindly sponsored by VetSpec.

Pam added: “Huge thanks to Accrington & District Riding Club for organising the horse show, to our dog show judge Richard, all our sponsors, stall holders and everyone who competed and spectated. You all made the day so special and with the funds raised, a fantastic legacy for Kath.”

Thanks so much to all involved, including Whalley Corn Mills owners the Townson family, for the incredible support over the years! 🙌🌹

There are only a couple of days to go until our Walk the Lights down Blackpool's iconic prom - are you planning to walk ...
30/09/2026

There are only a couple of days to go until our Walk the Lights down Blackpool's iconic prom - are you planning to walk with us? 🎡✨🗼

This fun, family-friendly five mile stroll takes place on Friday. It's always a great night out, and it's just £10 for adults, £5 for those aged 6-16, and FREE for those aged 5 and under! It's also the perfect family fundraiser, if you wanted to go the extra mile and raise sponsorship for your walk 🙏🥰

❤️ You can walk in support or in memory of a loved one, in thanks for treatment that you or someone close to you has had, or simply to get some fresh sea air and to enjoy the illuminations - just know that by taking part, you'll be helping to fund life-changing cancer projects for the benefit of local patients.

Fancy walking with us? Find out more, or register now: https://rosemere.org.uk/event/walk-the-lights-2026/ 🤩

Thank you so much to friends Steven Clifford and Andy Lewis, of Chorley, who took on an epic 2,240-mile, week-long motor...
29/09/2026

Thank you so much to friends Steven Clifford and Andy Lewis, of Chorley, who took on an epic 2,240-mile, week-long motorcycle journey from the town up to John O’Groats, down to Land’s End and back home again - and raised a fantastic £1,893 for us! 👏

🏍 To complete their quest within their Saturday to Saturday timeframe, 75-year-old Steven and Andy (73) spent at least seven hours a day in the saddle. Steven said: “Our route was an all A roads. We never touched a motorway. We averaged around 300-ish miles per day. My bike is a 300cc dual sports bike, the Honda CRF 300L, which is a sort of off road cross between a scrambler and a little town run about. It was like sitting on an ironing board being dragged over cobbles by carthorses!

“Andy rode a Triumph Bonneville 120, a 1200cc machine with lots of power and grunt, an ideal support bike in case of breakdowns. Andy and I have done many rides together, most of them short day returns of usually less than 200 miles. We thought we were kings of the castle a couple of years ago when we did the complete perimeter of Ireland, 2,800 miles in two full weeks, thinking to ourselves beat that if you can.”

Steven added: “That we have been able to beat it is thanks to the tremendous support we have had from friends, family and lots of loving people who care about Rosemere. The biking challenge made its own rewards day by day as we watched our Just Giving page clock up the donations. We are so grateful.”

Steven and Andy, who are both dads and grandads, set off from and returned to The Spinners pub at Cowling, Chorley. They devised a route that made Perth their first stop before continuing via Inverness, John O’Groats, Edinburgh, Bellingham, Humberside, Cromer, Norwich, Bristol, Taunton, Land’s End, Exeter, Bristol and Prestatyn, spending a total of seven nights in B&Bs before returning to Chorley via the Mersey Tunnel.

They chose to support us in thanks for treatment Steven received at the Rosemere Cancer Centre following a diagnosis of bowel cancer in 2024. Andy’s wife Lisa is also a former patient, having undergone treatment for breast cancer here back in 2013.

Both Andy and Steven have also previously fundraised for us; in January 2025 Andy raised £1,200 by completing a 496k running challenge, while in January this year Steven raised £1,500 by organising a Burns Night celebration at The Spinners, which he is going to repeat on 23rd January next year. Tickets are already available.

Thank you to both of you for your wonderful continued support! ❤

Catch Rosemere supporter Linda Sherlock on TV next week! 📺 👏You may remember our recent story about Chorley author Linda...
25/09/2026

Catch Rosemere supporter Linda Sherlock on TV next week! 📺 👏

You may remember our recent story about Chorley author Linda Sherlock and the launch of her debut novel, Carribay, with all royalties from the book being donated to Rosemere Cancer Foundation.

The launch was filmed for the Sky TV programme The Irish in the UK - and now you can watch it next Tuesday 29th September at 8pm.

Linda and her brother Adrian, who was treated at Rosemere Cancer Centre, feature in the second part of the programme, with Adrian speaking about the care he received at Rosemere.

The programme will be available on:

📺 Sky – Channel 588
📺 Freeview – Channel 279
▶️ Irish In The UK TV and YouTube channel Episode 483

We can't wait to see Linda, Adrian and the story of Carribay on screen! ❤️

There's not long to go until our annual Walk the Lights! Are you joining us? 🎡✨🗼 Taking place on Friday 2nd October, it'...
23/09/2026

There's not long to go until our annual Walk the Lights! Are you joining us? 🎡✨🗼

Taking place on Friday 2nd October, it's a fun, family-friendly five mile stroll down Blackpool's famous prom from Bispham to Starr Gate. It's always a great night, and it's accessible for all the family. It's just £10 for adults, £5 for those aged 6-16, and FREE for those aged 5 and under! 🥰

❤️ You can walk in support or in memory of a loved one, in thanks for treatment that you or someone close to you has had, or simply to get some fresh sea air and to enjoy the illuminations - just know that by signing up to walk with us, you'll be helping to fund life-changing cancer projects for the benefit of patients cared for here at the Rosemere Cancer Centre at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and across the region.

Fancy walking with us? Find out more, or register now: https://rosemere.org.uk/event/walk-the-lights-2026/ 🤩

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