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Gospelware tackles 150ft abseil for Teenage Cancer Trust

A team of thrill-seekers from the Newcastle-based app technology company Gospelware is taking on the 150ft Abseil Challenge to raise funds and awareness for Teenage Cancer Trust, helping to support young people with cancer.

The Abseil Challenge will take place at the Sandman Signature Hotel in Newcastle on 11 June, 2017. The Gospelware team is calling on other Newcastle companies to take on the Abseil Challenge in support of Teenage Cancer Trust.

Teenage Cancer Trust makes sure the seven young people aged 13 to 24 diagnosed with cancer every day don’t face it alone. They help young people and their families deal with the many ways cancer affects your body, mind and life. The charity works in partnership with the NHS, providing expert staff and specialist units in Principal Treatment Centres for cancer, and bring young people together so they can support each other.

But right now, almost half of young people with cancer are not treated in Teenage Cancer Trust units. Instead they are treated in hospitals where there isn’t the same level of expertise, and they might never meet another young person with cancer. This is a scary and lonely experience. This must change. So Teenage Cancer Trust is building a wider Nursing & Support Service within the NHS to help all young people, wherever they receive treatment. To make this happen, they need to raise more than £20 million every year by 2020.

Claudia Thompson, Marketing Manager for Gospelware, said: “What Teenage Cancer Trust does for young people fighting cancer is amazing! Being able to do something to raise funds and support them, whilst scaring ourselves a bit, is something that we’re looking forward to and we are aiming to raise as much as possible. We’re a little bit scared of the abseiling, and many of us haven’t done it before, but it’s nothing compared to what young people with cancer face - that’s the brave activity, and if abseiling down a building can help support these amazing young people, then that is what we’ll do!“

Sonia Graham, Regional Fundraiser for Teenage Cancer Trust, said: “It’s fantastic to have the support of the team at Gospelware for this year’s Abseil Challenge. As a charity we rely on voluntary donations and the support of the local community through events like these to ensure young people with cancer and their families have access to the best possible care and support. A huge thank to the team at Gospelware for their support and helping to raise awareness and funds for young people with cancer.“

Sign up now for the Abseil Challenge individually, as a group or corporate team and help support young people with cancer.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Teenage Cancer Trust .