Tag: Macmillan Cancer Support.

The cat(erpillar) that got the cream: hugely popular M&S cream cake range joins Colin the Caterpillar to celebrate 10 years of Macmillan partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Macmillan Cancer Support is celebrating 10 years in partnership with Marks & Spencer as headline partner of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning, the charity’s flagship fundraising event. To celebrate the anniversary, M&S is introducing more products into its Macmillan Coffee Morning range than ever before, including its hugely popular fresh cream cakes, which it anticipates it will sell over two million packs of in September alone. Available from September 1st, the range will include customer favourites such as Chocolate Eclairs (£1.70), Strawberry Tarts (£3.75), and Jam & Cream Horns (£1.70),…

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Dunelm partners with Macmillan Cancer Support to raise cups and funds

Stuart Mitchell

Dunelm, the UK’s leading homewares retailer, and Macmillan Cancer Support have announced a two-year fundraising partnership. There are currently 2.5 million people living with cancer in the UK, and this is set to grow to almost 4 million by 2030. Over the next two years Dunelm hopes to raise £1 million for Macmillan, which could fund 18 Macmillan professionals for one year. As well as nurses, Macmillan’s professionals range from Physiotherapists, Phycologists, Financial Advisors, Speech Therapists and Family Support Workers who all work with people following a cancer diagnosis to…

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MacMillan Appoints Claire Rowney As Executive Director Of Fundraising, Marketing & Communications

Stuart Mitchell

Macmillan Cancer Support is pleased to announce the appointment of Claire Rowney as Executive Director of Fundraising, Marketing & Communications, joining in February 2019. Claire joins Macmillan from Save the Children UK where she has been Executive Director of Fundraising and Marketing since early 2017. Prior to this Claire spent 13 years at Cancer Research UK, leading Race for Life, Stand Up To Cancer, Innovation and Corporate Partnerships. Claire will replace Richard Taylor who is leaving Macmillan at the end of the year to pursue a career in coaching. Lynda…

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Pizza Express and Macmillan Cancer Team Up to Raise Money

Stuart Mitchell

What could be better than a delicious pizza on a long summer’s evening? How about a pizza that helps improve the lives of people living with cancer too? It might sound too good to be true but now you can change lives with every slice. PizzaExpress is donating a discretionary 25p from the sale of every Padana pizza to Macmillan Cancer Support. The vegetarian Padana is a perfect combination of goat’s cheese, mozzarella, tomato, caramelised onions, spinach, red onions and garlic oil. Light and delicious, it’s the ideal choice for…

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Medical charities collaborate to ensure research results are shared

Stuart Mitchell

23 members of the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) are working in collaboration to develop and launch a joint publication platform, AMRC Open Research.  By removing traditional barriers and delays to publication, the new platform will help the charities maximise the value of the donations they receive by making it possible for every output from the research they fund to be rapidly and openly shared. The AMRC Open Research will use services developed by F1000 and a publication process first used on F1000Research. This process has since been adopted…

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