Winter News 2013 - Beating Bowel Cancer

Get involved
A Beardy thank you!
We’d like to say a
massive thank you
to all those who
took part in our
Decembeard
fundraising
campaign. Our team
of Beardys did us
proud by sporting all
kinds of weird and
wonderful beards to
help us raise funds
to support our work.
We had 740 Beardys
join us, so a big
thank you to all of you and
everyone who sponsored
one of our Beardys.
To date we’ve raised
£58,367, smashing
all targets.
Our campaign was
backed by Everton
footballing legend, Kevin
Sheedy. Kevin was
diagnosed with bowel
cancer in the summer,
and following successful
surgery, is back coaching
the Everton Academy
team. He is now helping
us to raise awareness of
the condition and get more
people to recognise the
symptoms.
Kevin explained “I knew
something wasn’t right
as I was going to the toilet
more often than normal
and when I noticed I was
passing blood I knew I
had to visit to the doctor.
I lost my mum to bowel
cancer and my dad had
a successful operation,
but it was still a shock
to be diagnosed.
“Thankfully I got help
early and I was able to
have an operation which
was successful. So I
wanted to team up with
Beating Bowel Cancer to
help raise awareness of
the condition to ensure
more people go to the
doctor when they
Kevin Sheedy takes part in radio
interviews with our CEO Mark.
experience symptoms; it’s
so important not to bury
your head in the sand.
“Decembeard is a great
way to get people,
especially men, to talk
about bowel cancer. It’s
a fun campaign and I’m
really pleased I was able
to be involved.”
Decembeard will be back
for 2013, so don’t forget
to watch this space to
find out how you can get
involved later this year.
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