CRUK Relay For Life - Shetland

29/10/2026

19/10/2026

🏆🏆 Our Trophy Winners 🏆🏆

•🏆• The Hughson Trophy for the highest fundraising individual went to first-time Relayer Nigel Clark, who raised £2,235.56.
Mr Clark and his new team enthusiastically took part in activities and helped wherever they could.
The Hughson Trophy was donated by Mrs. Hughson's daughters, Olive and Kay, in memory of their mam. The trophy was presented by Olive's grandchildren; Ruby, Archie and Ruardaiah Urquart.
The committee thanked Mrs MacLeod’s family for the donations made following her funeral.

•🏆•The Alan Slater Trophy is awarded to the highest fundraising team. This year the trophy was presented to the longstanding Skuveganers team, who raised £7,130.97. Kathleen Slater presented the trophy, which was donated in memory of her husband Alan, a former committee member. Receiving the trophy are Skuveganers members Liam Brannan and his daughter Krissi.

•🏆• The John Gair Trophy, recognises enthusiasm and going the extra mile for Relay. This year's winner is Macy Russell, who raised over £1,000 by running every Bressay parkrun in May, with determination to improve her personal best each week. The trophy was presented by Emma Grains from Cooke Scotland, the relay's main sponsor in 2026.

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all our fundraisers - you are all amazing 🤩

17/10/2026

We are delighted to announce the final total for CRUK Relay For Life - Shetland 2026. £110, 394.13 🏆🎉🥁🏆🎉
Thank you to everyone who came to our thank you night, and to all of you who helped to raise this amazing amount.
To put it in perspective, The Uk has raised £950k for Relay in 2026, so Shetland has raised so much for our small community - you are all amazing! 🤩🤩🤩
Photos to follow of this year's trophy winners 🏆
Thanks to our main sponsors Cooke Scotland, and to EMN Plant for sponsoring our Candle of Hope ceremony 🤩

17/10/2026

We are raring to go! The Baila room is set ✨🩷💜💙

📣📣Thank You Night & Total Announcement! 📣📣

We are holding our thank you night on Saturday 17th October 2026, where we will announce the total raised through the 2026 CRUK Relay for Life Shetland.

Two members of each team are invited to attend, we look forward to seeing you there!

17/10/2026

Just a reminder of our Thank you night - hope to see you tonight at the Sound Hall 🎉

📣📣Thank You Night & Total Announcement! 📣📣

We are holding our thank you night on Saturday 17th October 2026, where we will announce the total raised through the 2026 CRUK Relay for Life Shetland.

Two members of each team are invited to attend, we look forward to seeing you there!

08/10/2026

📣📣Thank You Night & Total Announcement! 📣📣

We are holding our thank you night on Saturday 17th October 2026, where we will announce the total raised through the 2026 CRUK Relay for Life Shetland.

Two members of each team are invited to attend, we look forward to seeing you there!

28/08/2026

Please read the update - thank you to those who have donated to cover their loss 💜
*** UPDATE ***

Thank you for all your shares, kind comments and messages over the last few days, we’re overwhelmed by the support shown to both us as a team and towards Cancer Research UK. We’re very grateful to the kind people who have made donations recently which has covered the £100 lost. Special thanks to those people 💜

*** UPDATE ***

Thank you for all your shares, kind comments and messages over the last few days, we’re overwhelmed by the support shown to both us as a team and towards Cancer Research UK. We’re very grateful to the kind people who have made donations recently which has covered the £100 lost. Special thanks to those people 💜

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This isn’t a post we wanted to be writing, but unfortunately we’ve noticed that the money raised isn’t matching the value of all the homebakes we put out. We know this is the risk you take when running an honesty box, we were aware of it in June and July too, but with this weekend being the worst so far and leaving us about £100 down 💔 All the proceeds from the cake fridge go to Cancer Research UK and our team have worked so hard to make this happen so we are disappointed to be missing that much money. We’d like to ask anyone that was at the cake fridge on Sunday and paid by QR code please could you check that your payment has gone through, as we know sometimes the signal is not the best.

We really hope this has been an honest mistake, and on the whole the honesty box system has worked really well, so thank you to everyone who has stopped by this weekend. We will be announcing our total raised later this week.

I’ve attached the JustGiving link below and it’s also in our bio. If anyone needs to try paying again or would like to make a donation big or small we’d really appreciate it, the last date for 2026 donations is 30th August.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/lesleygardiner-1776285881211?utm_medium=FR&utm_source=CL

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26/08/2026

**JOHN GEAR MEMORIAL TROPHY**

If you are a Shetland Relay For Life team captain or a team member, or were involved in Relay in any way, we NEED your help.

We are looking for nominations for this trophy 🏆

If you feel you know someone who was a member of a Relay for Life team, a captain, or a survivor who went the 'Extra mile' please let us know.

This could be that they were extra encouraging or enthusiastic. This nomination should be someone who epitomised the spirit of the Relay for life.

***please note committee members cannot receive a nomination ***

You should give us the name of the person you nominate, the reason they've been nominated along with why they deserve to win.

You can send us a message on here with your nomination, comment below or email [email protected]

Nominations to be in by 4th September 💜

Details of our thank you night, to be held later in September, will be available soon.