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27 Apr 2022

INNOVATIVE BOWEL CANCER RESEARCH UNDERWAY

In 2019, thanks to your fantastic support, we announced £985,000 in funding for a ground-breaking bowel cancer research and treatment project called COLO-SPEED. COLO-SPEED aims to recruit more patients – up to 5,000 a year – to
11 Apr 2022

BEDALE AFC V CELEBRITIES CHARITY MATCH

A wonderful charity match in the sunshine at Bedale AFC yesterday! Young Alfie and Bailey have both been supported by work we’ve funded at the Great North Children’s Hospital and were very proud to officially kick the
4 Apr 2022

SIR BOBBY’S FOOTBALL RUNNER, FROM TEESSIDE TO NEW ENGLAND!

Despite living thousands of miles away from her native Teesside, Kay Murray will be pulling on her beloved Middlesbrough football shirt later this month to help our Foundation. Now a studio host of ESPN’s football coverage in
18 Mar 2022

SIR BOBBY’S FOOTBALL RUN GOES GLOBAL!

Sir Bobby’s Football Run began as a charity fundraising activity during lockdown last year and has now become a way for football fans living across the world to show their support for our Foundation. The first Football
16 Mar 2022

FIVE-YEAR-OLD NUFC FAN FUNDRAISES FOR OUR FOUNDATION

A five-year-old Newcastle United fan has raised £283 for our Foundation by running laps around St James’ Park. Parker Raine is one of the youngest supporters of our Foundation and ran three times around the outside of
7 Mar 2022

A FANTASTIC NIGHT CELEBRATING THE BEST OF NORTH EAST FOOTBALL

Once again, the North East Football Writers’ Association Awards, sponsored by William Hill, supported our Foundation with their star-studded event at Ramside Hall in Durham. Celebrating the best of North East football, winners included Men’s Player of
18 Feb 2022

SIR BOBBY’S FOOTBALL RUN, RUN A MATCH THIS APRIL!

Today (18th February) is Sir Bobby’s birthday. He would have been 89. It’s a day we always take a moment to fondly remember him and reflect on everything we’ve been able to achieve thanks to Sir Bobby’s
15 Feb 2022

INTERNATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER DAY

Today is International Childhood Cancer Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the special challenges faced by young cancer patients. Within the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, our Foundation is helping find more effective ways
4 Feb 2022

PATIENTS MATCHED TO CLINICAL TRIALS BY FINDING FAULTY GENES

Your fantastic support helps us fund ground-breaking new cancer treatments and today, on World Cancer Day, we are very proud to announce TARGET National, a new initiative that uses blood samples to find ‘faulty genes’ and help
3 Feb 2022

‘UNBELIEVABLE’ WINNER OF NE FOOTBALL WRITERS’ PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR

This year’s hugely-popular choice for the North East Football Writers’ Association Personality of the Year is Middlesbrough’s Chris Kamara. The annual award is given in association with our Foundation to recognise someone who uses their position in