Darwen woman's ‘return sponsor money’ appeal

7:00pm Friday 19th October 2012 in News

A DARWEN woman who lost her mother to cancer is calling on everyone who took part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life to return their sponsorship money.

Last year, a third of the women who took part in Race for Life failed to return any cash.

Now an appeal has been made by Susan Berry, 54, who took part in the Blackburn event for the fourth time and raised £130 in memory of mum Susan Adam, who died of oesophageal cancer in November aged 74.

Susan’s cousin, Roberta McCartney, died of cervical cancer aged 35, and her grandmother, Susan Campbell died of the disease in her 50s.

But Susan’s great-aunt, Jessie Brown, now 90, is a long-term breast cancer survivor who had a double mastectomy 20 years ago.

Susan said: “Seeing my great aunt survive has shown me that people do survive cancer – it is not a death sentence. I just want to make sure more people survive by raising money for Cancer Research UK.”

Race for Life manager for Blackburn Sharon Hurst said she hoped as much of the £90,000 pledged would be returned.

Comments (5)

8:41pm Fri 19 Oct 12

mother of 4 says...

thats disgusting people saying money for charity and keeping it!!!!!!!! my girls give money in within a month of doing race for life in memory of my dad...
thats disgusting people saying money for charity and keeping it!!!!!!!! my girls give money in within a month of doing race for life in memory of my dad... mother of 4

8:41pm Fri 19 Oct 12

mother of 4 says...

thats disgusting people saying money for charity and keeping it!!!!!!!! my girls give money in within a month of doing race for life in memory of my dad...
thats disgusting people saying money for charity and keeping it!!!!!!!! my girls give money in within a month of doing race for life in memory of my dad... mother of 4

8:56pm Fri 19 Oct 12

darwenTower says...

It's a disgrace, it's people like this that put others off giving to charity.
It's a disgrace, it's people like this that put others off giving to charity. darwenTower

9:16pm Fri 19 Oct 12

2 for 5p says...

You've got to be carefull when giving to charity .
The way I look at it is there is usually ulterior motives when someone does a kind act, not always but usually.
My advice to anyone is do what I do when someone asks me for sponsership and say " give me the name and address of the charity and I will send the money myself "
If they are not making off with the money, then the other reason they raise the money is for there own Publicity and to promote themselves.

Ps I hope you get the cash back
You've got to be carefull when giving to charity . The way I look at it is there is usually ulterior motives when someone does a kind act, not always but usually. My advice to anyone is do what I do when someone asks me for sponsership and say " give me the name and address of the charity and I will send the money myself " If they are not making off with the money, then the other reason they raise the money is for there own Publicity and to promote themselves. Ps I hope you get the cash back 2 for 5p

12:32am Sat 20 Oct 12

golazzo says...

Shocking statistics. They should hang their heads in shame
Shocking statistics. They should hang their heads in shame golazzo

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