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BBC News
23-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Jersey cake and gift sale raises £4.5k for cancer charities
A cancer patient has raised more than £4,510 for charity with a week-long cake and gift Anne Robins came up with the idea to raise funds for Jersey Cancer Relief and Friends of Jersey Oncology (FOJO) while she was receiving asked if she could hold a one-day cake sake but said the idea mushroomed from there when Jersey General Hospital offered her space for a week-long 66-year-old, whose endometrial cancer has spread to her lungs, said: "It was electric. It was going to be a few hours but it just exploded and it made people aware as well." 'Delighted' Ms Robbins said she wanted to raise awareness so that people knew "as soon as your body does not feel right to push to get the right tests".The sale included cakes, unwanted Christmas gifts and items donated by local businesses to raffle to collected donations at the Jersey Cancer Relief Welcome Centre, Jersey Monumental and the St Clement's Parish Robins' family has been involved in fundraising for Jersey Cancer Relief for more than 20 said she thought the sale would make about £500 for each charity and was delighted with the final amount raised. Ms Robins, who has been having treatment in Jersey and at the Royal Marsden Hospital in central London, added: "Some people wanted to have private chats too, which is important."Every month about 30 newly-diagnosed patients begin treatment at Jersey's oncology unit, according to FOJO.
BBC News
08-02-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Jersey cancer patient fundraises to support other patients
A patient has organised a fundraising event at Jersey General Hospital to help others going through cancer idea for the sale came to cancer patient Carole Anne Robins as she was sitting in her treatment family has a long history of fundraising for cancer charities in has been running a stall selling cakes and gifts to raise money for Jersey Cancer Relief and the Friends of Jersey Oncology (FOJO). Ms Robins, 66, who attends hospital in Jersey and the Royal Marsden in London, said patients needed support throughout their said: "You realise what the actual patients go through and as you sit in your chair in the oncology department you realise how much the nurses do."Every month about 30 newly diagnose patients begin their treatment at Jersey's oncology and haematology unit, according to sale included cakes, unwanted Christmas gifts and items donated by local businesses to raffle to hospital visitors.
