Ovacome Summer 2014

Our magnificent
marathon team
Ovarian cancer survivor Jackie Rose was among the
runners who competed in April’s London Marathon
for Ovacome, with the group raising an enormous
£28,220.62 for the charity.
Jackie Rose: fulfils personal ambition running London Marathon.
Jackie, from Hackney in North
London, was diagnosed with stage 1C
clear cell carcinoma ovarian cancer six
years ago. She has always wanted to run
the London Marathon and on the day
she completed it in just over six hours,
raising £981.12.
Julie Caudle,
from Cowes,
the Isle of
Wight, has
raised £3,647.
She took up
running after
her mother
died of
ovarian cancer
aged 67 in
2009, which
drove Julie
Julie Caudle: now a
“runaholic”.
on to becoming a self-confessed
“runaholic”. She says the only running
she did before her mother’s death was
for the bus. Training for the marathon
was “very hard work” says Julie,
“but nothing
compared with
what people who
have the disease
are suffering”.
Other London
marathon runners
Ovacome would
like to thank are:
Gareth Rosser,
who raised
£2,593.16;
Richard Stock
(£4,507.50);
Eleanor Bancroft (£1,599.38); Claire
Zahra (£3,168.31); Michael Lawlor
(£1,453.16); Zare de Haldevang
(£8,601.99); Lizzy Pollot (£910) and
Preethi Sundaram (£759).
fundraising
A funny walk…
for a very serious cause
Comedian Nick Banks and his
entourage of fellow funnymen
from the north-east raised £4,048.94
for Ovacome with their Hadrian’s Wall
Walk 2014.
The group walked 84 miles
along the famous landmark,
taking in venues along the
way with a week’s worth of
gigs. Among the group was
TV comic Patrick Monahan
and well-known performers
Seymour Mace and Silky.
Nick, who runs the event for
a different charity every year,
Kevin Stephens
smashes £10K
of £100K target
Kevin Stephens’ pledge to raise
£100,000 for Ovacome may have
seemed wildly ambitious when he made
it back in autumn 2012.
But, Kevin has smashed £10,000 so far
by being on fundraising duty 24/7. He
never misses an opportunity to boost
the charity’s coffers; whether that is
by getting local businesses to display
collection tins, friends to take part in
sponsored runs or new acquaintances to
dispose of loose change.
But Kevin’s ambition is twofold. He has
also worked tirelessly to raise awareness
about the symptoms of the disease,
which took his wife Loraine nearly two
years ago. He has immersed himself in
finding out the latest developments
about the disease, becoming part of the
ovarian cancer community as a regular
and very welcome face at Ovacome’s
Members’ Day and the fundraising
event Tea With Ovacome.
To support Kevin visit
www.justgiving.com/Loraine-Stephens
says the journey is becoming harder
each time. “It was great fun, but we
were a year older than last time and
I damaged my achilles heel and Jim
Bayes, his knee,” he laughs.
Funnymen don their walking boots for Ovacome.
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