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CHECT lottery – win up to £25,000!

CHECT lottery – win up to £25,000!

01/09/15 | AWARENESS, EVENTS, NEWS

What better day to launch the new Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT) lottery than on the first day of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month? Not only can you be in with a chance of winning £25,000 each week but for every £1 you spend, 50p will go directly to CHECT to help...
When the going gets tough!

When the going gets tough!

05/08/15 | FUNDRAISING

Childhood Eye Cancer Trust member Jane Harrison, rose to the Tough Mudder challenge to raise vital funds for the trust. Jane takes us through her adventure. Well I completed Tough Mudder this weekend… 10.6 miles in the toughest terrain in the UK of all the...
Join CHECT’s Teddy Bears Picnic

Join CHECT’s Teddy Bears Picnic

23/07/15 | EVENTS, FUNDRAISING

Poor Chester the CHECT bear. He’s already missing his pals now school’s broken up for the summer. Luckily, we’ve thought of a way to put a smile back on Chester’s face – we’re arranging a Teddy Bears Picnic for him. It would make...
Eight go mad in Essex

Eight go mad in Essex

16/07/15 | SUPPORT

CHECT has just held its first teenage weekend away – giving young people affected by retinoblastoma the chance to share their experiences with one another and tackle some of the challenges they may be facing. Here teenage members Tor Moore and Lexie Edwards share...

Eye cancer societies join hands across Europe

25/06/15 | SUPPORT

Last week the world’s foremost eye surgeons and cancer specialists gathered in Paris. Top of the agenda at the International Society for Ocular Oncology meeting was progress in treatment for retinoblastoma (Rb), the most common eye cancer of childhood. Fifty...