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Cure Claire's Cancer

Our aim is to raise money for our wonderful friend Claire through Creative, Crafty and Convivial based endeavours – each event will be a celebration of Claire and an opportunity to make as much money as possible. You can read more about our campaign, see some of the events planned over the next few months and contribute via our website: www.cureclairescancer.org 

We are looking to raise £100,000 for Claire to find a cure for her cancer through research, cutting edge trials and experimental treatments, whilst also raising awareness for bowel cancer (which is becoming increasingly common in under 50s). 

Watch this space and like our Facebook page  to find out more about these events and feel free just to donate money directly…

ABOUT CLAIRE.

Claire is simply wonderful. She is a warrior for social justice, an animal lover and one of the best friends anyone could hope for. She is a mum to three beautiful children, a loving wife, daughter, sister and dear friend.

It was a horrible shock for us all when last year Claire was diagnosed with bowel cancer. After surgery to remove the tumour it looked like she was in the clear. Unfortunately, tests showed it had spread to her lungs and despite getting 9 months of chemotherapy and five tumours removed from her lungs in the summer two more tumours have already appeared in her lungs. She has now been told it’s probably incurable.

As if that’s not unlucky enough Claire has also been diagnosed with a second unrelated cancer - lymphoma. But Claire, tenacious as always is determined to find a solution for herself and others in her situation. Having two different cancers excludes her from taking part in most trials so she is going to have to pay for any experimental treatment herself.

The good news is that there are new forms of immunology that could save her life. The treatments are at a very early stage and therefore hideously expensive and not available to Claire on the NHS.

Her best option now is to try and raise funds to be treated privately in America or Europe.

ABOUT US.

We are a diverse group of people based mostly in Scotland and Australia, brought together by a shared passion; our friend Claire. As an assorted collective with a variety of skills - we will be organising a series of events to help us hit our target of £100,000 which will hopefully cover the cost of any treatment Claire might be eligible for.

As well as the usual fund raising through raffles and the like, we will be hosting art auctions, skills auctions, gigs, club nights, making merch and much, much more. Each event will be a celebratory occasion that will reflect the nature of Claire’s bright, tenacious and quite frankly all round beautiful personality.

This page will help us keep a running tally of all monies made and allow people to donate easily. It is also a space to share updates about Claire and her treatment.

ABOUT THE TREATMENT.

Claire is yet to decide on the best treatment for her cancer. She and her family are tirelessly researching the options. What is likely is that it will be far away and expensive. Through researching her own treatment Claire hopes to raise awareness for others in a similar situation. We will update all progress on this page and Claire is going to produce her own Podcast that will follow her journey to find a cure. If Claire is successful in finding treatment that isn’t so far away or isn’t as expensive as initially outlined,  all extra monies will be given to existing cancer charities.

So if you can spare even a couple of quid, Claire, her family and all of us would be massively grateful. If you want to join us at some of the awesome events we are pulling together we’d be more than happy to sell you a raffle ticket and a tote bag! PLEASE, PLEASE, HELP US CURE CLAIRE’S CANCER.
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Donations 

  • Anonymous
    • £10 
    • 3 yrs
  • Angus Dixon
    • £2,040 (Offline)
    • 4 yrs
  • Yvonne Kerr
    • £740 (Offline)
    • 4 yrs
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Fundraising team: Claire's Team (8)

Suzy Houston
Organizer
Raised £2,832 from 36 donations
Claire Bothwell
Beneficiary
Courtney Botfield
Team member
Raised £1,122 from 8 donations
Gill Hanlon
Team member
Raised £1,091 from 24 donations
Emma Halliday
Team member
Raised £680 from 8 donations
Caroline McArdle
Team member
Raised £570 from 6 donations

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