Buckingham Palace Garden Party
As part of our very special 30th anniversary year celebrations, Berwick Cancer Cars is very proud that our Chair, Andrew Smith, received an invitation from Buckingham Palace to attend today’s Royal Garden Party. Accompanying Andrew to this most special of occasions was our Vice Chair, Gillian Mitchell.
Representing her majesty the Queen were Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, joined by Prince Edward and Sophie, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, and the Queen’s cousin, Princess Alexandra.
Our Chair, Andrew said of the day – “Being invited to such a prestigious event during her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee year is such a great honour. Gillian and I have enjoyed a thoroughly fantastic day representing Berwick Cancer Cars and speaking of the great work the good people of Berwick and District allow us to do.”
Our Vice Chair, Gillian, added – “A fantastic experience surrounded by people who by their very presence represent their commitment to serve people and communities. I’m very proud that our charity does exactly that and makes such a difference to peoples lives.”
Some of our other news
Cancer Cars Youth Ambassador Freya : 15,000ft tandem parachute jump fundraiser!
Our very own daredevil Berwick Cancer Cars Youth Ambassador, and youngest Committee member, Freya Ryan, has signed up to do a tandem parachute jump, from 15,000ft!! It’s to take place on 17th April 2021 and Freya is doing this as part of her continuous fundraising efforts in her role as Tweedmouth Salmon Queen, which she…
New Car Named In Fond Memory of Carol Ditchfield
Being in the role of Chair of our beloved ‘Berwick Cancer Cars’ comes with great responsibility, long hours and, I don’t mind admitting, on occasion, tears. All this though is tipped off the scales when you have an amazing team of dedicated hard working volunteers who continually give up their time week after week to…
Winners of our online 2020 Flintstone raffle prize draw
Our online raffle draw winners with their hand crafted, one of a kind Flintstone inspired prizes! Thank you to Steve Bird for his brilliant Fred and Dino wooden creation and for Suzanne at Quay Interiors for the super finishing touch car fabric, and for so kindly displaying Fred and Dino in her shop window on…
North East Charity Awards ‘Highly Commended’ Small Charity of the Year 2020.
Imagine our surprise and delight when we were contacted by one of our clients, Betty Green, telling us she’d entered Berwick Cancer Cars into the 2020 North East Charity Awards as ‘Small Charity of the Year’. Fast forward several months during a particularly troublesome year, whilst we all made huge adjustments to our daily lives…
Letter of Support from our MP
Prior to the North East Charity Awards we were contacted by our MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, with a letter wishing us good luck. We would like to thank Anne-Marie and her Chief of Staff Tom Forrester for their support and kind words, it meant so much for us to be acknowledged in this way.
Shortlisted for ‘Small Charity of The Year 2020’
We are absolutely thrilled to have been chosen as a shortlisted finalist as ‘Small Charity of the Year’ in the prestigious 2020 North East Charity Awards. The Awards are designed to recognise the hard work and innovative thinking by charities and individual fundraisers across the whole of the Northeast. As with many events, this year’s…
Co-op Funeralcare Christmas Tree Memorial
Each year our good friends at Tweedmouth Co-op Funeralcare set up a Christmas Tree and invite people to place a paper bauble on the tree to remember our loved ones no longer with us. It’s a beautiful way to show our memories at this time of year. For 2020, and with everyone’s safety of uppermost…
1,000 face masks donated by ‘Coping with Cancer North East’
The incredibly kind folk at Coping with Cancer North East have made a very generous donation of 1,000 medical grade face masks in aid of our transport service. Two of our team; Fleet Coordinator & Driver, Tom, and Bookings Coordinator, Nicola – both pictured here with the centre’s Complementary Therapies Manager, Angela – visited the…
Running the distance for Berwick Cancer Cars
One of our drivers and media man Roger Peaple took on the might of Berwick’s Elizabethan Town Walls today in aid of Berwick Cancer Cars on what was to have been the day of The Gateshead Half Marathon. Perhaps not a huge feat for a 1.2 mile (2 km) circuit and which forms the famous…
Happy 69th Birthday to the ‘almost twins’
It isn’t very often you come across someone with the same birthday as yourself, especially born just a minute apart! So, when we discovered that two of our very special friends, Cancer Car driver Michael Cox and client (and former Cancer Car driver) Brian Boyd were sharing their 69th birthday we couldn’t let this pass…
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