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May 20, 2020

You can help beat cancer by supporting the Hope For Life Appeal

Hope Against Cancer is doubling the size of their Clinical Trials Facility at Leicester’s Hospitals - and are calling upon the people of Leicestershire and Rutland to help them do it.

Funding research is the only way to beat cancer, and Hope is at the forefront of giving people a better quality of life and a vastly higher chance of surviving the disease. The charity has started the Hope For Life Appeal and is asking for people to start organising events, take on sponsored challenges or donate money. It’s your chance to be part of a local movement against cancer - if you don’t want to miss out, you need to get involved.

The Hope For Life Appeal is aiming to raise over £1.5 million to totally redevelop and extend the Hope Clinical Trials Facility. Every year, around 5,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Leicestershire. Thanks to organisations like Hope, of this 5,000, more people than ever are surviving. Hope For Life is the next step in making sure the number of people surviving cancer continues to rise.

Hope Against Cancer would like to thank a number of very generous donors across the Leicestershire and Rutland community, which has raised £1 million towards the £1.5 million goal. The Charity reached the million-pound mark recently with help from The Randal Charitable Foundation, following a large donation. The Loughborough based Foundation has a clear, unwavering vision that is to save lives, help the socially disadvantaged and improve the quality of life for those in need in the UK and around the world.

John Storer Charnwood is supported by the Randal Charitable Foundation

Opened in 2012, the Hope Clinical Trials Facility is one of the country’s leading centres for cancer trials in the last few years.

Professor Anne Thomas, clinical lead for the Hope Clinical Trials Facility at Leicester’s Hospitals, and Professor of Oncology at the University of Leicester, said: “We’re really grateful to Hope Against Cancer for its continued support of the Facility and our research. It is the success of the centre that has driven demand - and we’ve reached our full capacity as a result. Doubling the space at the Facility will mean we can offer many more patients further opportunities to take part in clinical trials, testing potential new drugs and treatments with the aim to extend lives, improve quality of life and, ultimately, improve outcomes for patients living with cancer today and in the future.”

Research has shown that having clinical research in a hospital providing cancer treatment improves the overall standard of care for patients receiving treatment both in and out of clinical trials. This means a new facility could have a wider impact on all patients being treated for cancer across the system.

Hope is calling on people to start fundraising and help them complete the project, which urgently needs to be completed by the end of 2020. In the past, local people have organised events, sporting challenges, competitions, bake sales, bike rides and a host of other activities to generate cash for the charity’s life-saving work.

Nigel Rose, Hope’s CEO since 2013, is full of confidence that the people of our counties will be able to raise the remaining £500,000: “If there’s one area of the UK that can raise the money the Hope For Life Appeal is asking for, it’s the communities in Leicestershire and Rutland. Many people’s lives are affected by cancer, and it’s a testament to them that Hope is what it is today. The Hope For Life Appeal is the next step in our journey.”

The money raised by Hope’s supporters will not only go towards doubling the capacity of the Clinical Trials Facility, but to purchasing new equipment and will be transformational for local cancer research in the future..

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