Winckworth Sherwood held a fun-filled Christmas Fair in aid of Secondary1st. Stalls featured books, DVDs, Christmas decorations, cards and jewellery, as well as mulled wine and fantastic cakes and buns. There were competitions for the best cake, the best Christmas jumper, the number of sweets in a jar, and a raffle with so many wonderful…
Winckworth Sherwood organised a quiz in a City wine bar in aid of Secondary1st. Teams of six competed to answer questions on a wide range of subjects. These were fiendishly difficult but everyone had a great time.
The Procurement Lawyers’ Association recently celebrated the award of the 2017-8 Rosie Choueka Memorial Essay Prize. Their Annual Essay Competition was established in memory of Rosie, who was a member of the PLA Executive Committee and is for young lawyers who are asked to submit an essay of 2,000-3,000 words on a specific public procurement…
A group of friends did something really different one Friday morning. They had a great deal of fun wearing pink, eating cake and drinking coffee. They also raised more than £350 for Secondary1st.
The amazing Alina organised a teaching session on breast awareness and self-examination during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. She emphasised the importance of knowing your own body and regular self-examination, as early detection is vital. The evening was enhanced by music and song. Spire Bushey Hospital generously hosted the event at the Elstree Cancer Centre and…
On 15th October our Celebrity Patron Peter Capaldi presented a cheque for £75,000 to help fund the research project led by Dr Claire Wells at King’s College London. Dr Wells is Leader of the Cancer Cell Invasion and Metastasis Group at Kings College; she and her team are investigating how breast cancer cells migrate…
Secondary1st was proud to mark Secondary Breast Cancer Awareness Day on 13th October. Our mission is to raise funds for more research into secondary breast cancer so that people will have more days doing what matters most, and daughters, mothers, fathers and sons will keep on living a life they love. It’s time to put…
Psychopomp Microdistillery is a small independent distillery in Bristol which makes craft-distilled gin in small batches and limited quantities using small hand-made copper pots. To mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month they held a charity cocktail event and served three specially designed melon-themed drinks. The bartenders and staff donated their time and all the money raised…
21 members of staff at Winckworth Sherwood set out and walked the 15 miles round the Circle Line of the London tube to raise money for Secondary1st. The first group managed to complete the course in 5 hours 39 minutes, but most people took over 6 hours to finish. There were lots of blisters and…
Dr Wells and her Research Associate Dr Michaela Lesjak, this year’s Secondary1st Researcher, are dedicated to unravelling the complex cellular process that drives breast cancer to spread. They want to identify the interactions happening inside cancer cells that promote their ability to move and invade other tissues. This means they are interested in finding the…
Nine friends who had met through their children over eight years ago walked a total of 40 miles to celebrate and honour Sue, who had been a founder member of the walking group. She was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer and very sadly passed away last year. Her friends walked from Wotton Under Edge to…
Elizabeth and four colleagues spent 24 hours cycling on stationary bikes as part of her family’s efforts to raise as much money as possible for Secondary1st in memory of her mother who passed away from secondary breast cancer in February 2018. It was an incredible effort by the whole team in the difficult conditions of…