We had the pleasure of speaking with Stephen Clegg, fresh off his incredible achievement of winning two medals at the Paris 2024 Paralympics. Stephen opened up about his journey navigating the challenges of competing at an elite level with vision loss, sharing...
The Ffion Miles Music Bursary was set up in 2022 in memory of the former CHECT member and her love of music, and her commitment to helping those who had also suffered from retinoblastoma, and a visual impairment. This year was the third year the Bursary has been...
Eleven-year-old Kitty joined us in the CHECT office recently to help us to raise some awareness of retinoblastoma during Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Kitty explains how the day went: Hi, I’m Kitty, and September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month! This is a time...
We were thrilled to join CHECT Ambassador and member Livi Deane at the launch of her powerful debut memoir, My New Normal, on Wednesday at the iconic Waterstones store in Piccadilly. Our Communications Manager Isabella and Head of Support Petra were proud to be there,...
Our member Katie Bohana Davies sent us a poem about her eye that was removed due to having retinoblastoma. My Beautiful Socket and Me 💗 My beautiful socket, Behind my Prosthetic, My beautiful socket I see. I see it often, Daily, weekly, Or at times when my Prosthetic...
Raising awareness about important health conditions can be both educational and fun, as Tobias’ preschool recently demonstrated. In an effort to support Tobias and spread awareness of retinoblastoma, a rare form of eye cancer, the school organised a special Crazy...
