Resolve Consultancy Services is sponsoring a fundraising golf day and dinner dance in aid of Maggie’s Centres.
Maggie's Swansea provides free practical, emotional and social support for people with cancer and their family and friends.
The Maggie’s concept began when in 1993, Maggie Keswick Jencks was told that her breast cancer had returned and was given two to three months to live.
She joined an advanced chemotherapy trial and lived for another 18 months. During that time, she and her husband Charles Jencks worked closely with her medical team, which included oncology nurse, Laura Lee, now Maggie’s Chief Executive, to develop a new approach to cancer care.
To live more positively with cancer, Maggie and Charles believed you needed information that would allow you to be an informed participant in your medical treatment, stress-reducing strategies, psychological support and the opportunity to meet other people in similar circumstances in a relaxed domestic atmosphere.
Maggie was determined that people should not “lose the joy of living in the fear of dying” and the day before she died in June 1995, she sat in her garden, face to the sun and said: “Aren’t we lucky?”
In November 1996, the first Maggie’s Centre opened in Edinburgh and what Maggie had planned became real. Now, there are centres across the UK and Wales too. Every year, over 300,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in the UK, facing tough questions, exhausting treatment and difficult emotions. These challenges affect not only those with cancer, but their family and friends. Maggie’s is there for anyone and everyone affected by cancer, offering a programme of support that has been shown to strengthen physical and emotional wellbeing.
They are well worth supporting. So, sign up for the golf on Friday 13 October 2017, 8:30am-1pm, Gower Golf, Cefn Goleu, Three Crosses, Swansea, SA4 3HS.
Then stay on for the Bucks Fizz and Canapes for 7.30pm, Dinner for 8.00pm - Smart Dress - Charity Auction and unique prize draw - Live Music, Disco and dancing til late - Carriages at 12.30am. Tickets: £40pp or £380 table of 10.
For further information contact Rod Keeble at rod@resolveconsultancyservices.co.uk or Liz Keeble on 07765 678226.
