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A massive shout out and thank you to Birketts LLP for agreeing to be the main sponsor for our upcoming Charity Golf Day... and thank you to Jonathan Agar for securing this collaboration.

February Newsletter

We are looking forward to our Afternoon Tea on Thursday 13th March. Due to unforeseen circumstances Nightingale wind quintet are no longer able to perform but we are excited to welcome Saxophony Sax quartet to fill those shoes! Alongside Rev Paul Pitt and comedian Richard [...]

We are very excited to welcome three new ambassadors to the charity - Thank you to Barry Griffiths, Kirsty Jay and Kevin Ward for joining our team. We are very grateful to have their support.  

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A massive thank you to the amazing team at @Barnes Construction for their incredible effort in raising funds for us here at Cancer Support Suffolk! We’re beyond grateful for every single donation—it helps us keep supporting those who need it most across Suffolk.

Trevor, the  Chairman of Witnesham Wasps formally presented Cancer Support Suffolk with a cheque for the funds raised at our recent race night and raffle. A fantastic effort by the senior team to deliver this and Wasps are doing an amazing job making a difference [...]

A huge thank you to everyone who made this year’s Suffolk Carpet Bowls event a success! With 34 teams competing, an incredible £1,200 was raised for us here at Cancer Support Suffolk. After an exciting day of matches, Norfolk Ally emerged victorious, storming to the [...]

A massive thank you to Samantha Fulcher for running the Valencia marathon to raise funds for Cancer Support Suffolk. We are so grateful for all funds raised, the money enables us to continue supporting the residents in Suffolk. before, during and after cancer. Thank you, [...]

In 2024, we concluded two incredible years as WTW's charity of the year. Their outstanding support enabled us to raise crucial funds, complemented by generous donations of desks, computer screens, and other essential office equipment. Here are some highlights from the 2024 events including quizzes, [...]

Thank you to everyone who joined the annual 'Life's a Pitch' Christmas show, your generosity helped us to raise £4833, which is just fantastic. We really enjoyed the event.

We are incredibly grateful to Suffolk Freemasons for their generous donation of £5000 to Cancer Support Suffolk. This significant contribution will go a long way in helping us provide vital support to teenagers and young adults aged 16-24 facing cancer.

On Friday CEO of Cancer Support Suffolk Mark Glenn Murphy Mbe visited Ipswich Crematorium to receive a cheque from the Ipswich Borough Council for a generous donation of £11,600 from their national recycling scheme. With prior agreement from families of loved ones, metal in cremation [...]

We’re so grateful to the amazing Ipswich Hospital Band for spreading festive cheer and raising funds for Cancer Support Suffolk, with their beautiful carol playing in supermarkets across Ipswich. Your support makes such a difference!

We had a fantastic afternoon celebrating two wonderful years of being WTW's charity of the year. Their incredible support has helped us raise substantial funds, along with generous donations of desks, computer screens, and other essential office equipment. We’re deeply grateful for their partnership and [...]

The author of the George Burley Book, Neil Prentice, popped into the Hub to meet our CEO Mark Glenn Murphy Mbe and present him with a copy of the book! Some proceeds of the book sales will be coming to support the work we do! [...]

In November welcomed Becky to the team and for her first day she joined us on a festive trip to St Mary Le Tower, where we added some creative "bau-balls" (yes, pun intended!) to our tree for the Christmas Tree Festival. Our tree theme is [...]

Our CEO Mark Murphy MBE recently popped along to the knit and natter group in Brantham, to receive a cheque from the ladies. He had a great time meeting you all, thank you for helping us support even more cancer patients and their family's in [...]

A big thank you to the volunteers from Ipswich East Rotary Club for clearing our old cellar out at Cancer Support Suffolk and to Sackers for supplying the skip. Community in action.

A massive thank you to Peter Dring, Director of Castons Artelia and John Button for a donation of £2,200 which they raised during their charity golf day!!The money will enable us to help more cancer patients and their families in Suffolk.

A HUGE thank you to the team at DPL Group Ltd for assisting with our rewiring and certifying our electrical system! “The team at DPL that carried out the job for us were amazing. Both friendly and with quality workmanship, we’re over the moon with [...]

WOW! What a night we had on Sunday at Venue 16 for Kirsty's Quiz! A room filled with over 300 people all joining together to support and fundraise with Kirsty. The evening raised an incredible £16,157 and we are lucky enough to be receiving 50% [...]

In September Judith and Mark spent the evening at NFU Mutual, for their annual Hog Roast, there was a raffle to raise money for Cancer Support Suffolk too! The evening raised £450 through the raffle and NFU Mutual have been fundraising for us throughout the [...]

A huge thank you to Charlotte Brown, who took part in a Night Spartan Challenge over the weekend! Charlotte raised over £500 for Cancer Support Suffolk which will help us continue supporting the residents of Suffolk before, during and after cancer!

A huge thank you to both Nicci and Rupert who abseiled the Lloyds building in London to fundraise for Cancer Support Suffolk! They raised just under £1,370 which will help us to continuing supporting the residents of Suffolk before, during and after cancer! Huge thank [...]

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A huge thank you to Rotary Club of Ipswich Orwell and Woodbridge Art Club for a cheque of £1,500. They raised the money during their Summer Art Exhibition in August through painting sales, raffle and refreshments! Donations like this make a huge difference to the [...]

We had a fantastic evening Sunday at the Mayors At Home night! It was great to meet and speak to so many different people about the work which Cancer Support Suffolk does in our community. We are so grateful to be chosen as one of [...]

Now we've managed to catch our breath (and cool down), we would like to thank everyone who either helped, sponsored, donated prizes or joined us for our Charity Golf Day. What a brilliant day it was... we raised an incredible £6,571 from the day through [...]

On Friday a fantastic team from Fenn Wright undertook an 180km cycle challenge from their most southerly office in Chelmsford to their flagship office in Woodbridge... They have absolutely smashed their target of £1000 to raise and we are so incredibly grateful for their hard [...]

Nearly 200 people came for skin checks and we referred 10 people for further investigation! Thank you to the team of Skin Cancer Nurse Specialists who helped us throughout the two days, working tirelessly to check people, giving people both peace of mind and advice!

We had a fantastic day at the Deben Tractor Run! Over 65 tractors turned out to help raise money and awareness for Cancer Support Suffolk… huge thank you to all involved in the event, it was a great success and we had a fabulous time!

We're incredibly lucky to have been chosen as Copleston High Schools Charity of the Year... Earlier in the year the students came into school wearing blue, to celebrate both Ipswich's promotion into the Premier League, but to also raise money for us at Cancer Support [...]

Come and join us for our Christmas Ball on Saturday 16th November at Venue 16  Tuddenham Road, Ipswich Arrival 7-7.30pm - Carriages Midnight £75 per person £700 for a table of 10 Includes and arrival drink and three course meal and dancing to the amazing [...]

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On Thursday 29th February some of the Cancer Support Suffolk team headed to Seckford Hall Hotel & Spa with Rebecca Drake to celebrate the last day of her daily cold-dip challenge. Rebecca was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer when she was just 39 and [...]

We had a fabulous night on Monday 29th January at our Curry night fundraiser at Bombay Nite in Felixstowe... An evening of good food, good chat and some great fundraising! Quizzes, heads and tails, horse races and a huge raffle. We are thrilled that we [...]

Last week the wonderful Kirsty and team took to the skies to fundraise for Cancer Support Suffolk in memory of Steve James and Mark Kirkman, both who sadly lost their lives to cancer. The team raised a fabulous £603 for Cancer Support Suffolk which will [...]

WOW. What a lady. The amazing Rebecca Drake is taking on a Daily Cold Dip Challenge, everyday in February! Rebecca was diagnosed with stage 3 bowel cancer at the age of 39 which had spread to numerous lymph nodes. Rebecca found that dipping into cold [...]

A wonderful evening spent with the Ipswich Hospital Band last night, being presented with a cheque of £3,859 from their band sessions throughout December playing Christmas carols and songs. A huge thank you from us all at CCiS, donations like this really do make a [...]

A massive thank you to the team at the East Anglian Copdock Bike Show for choosing to support Cancer Campaign in Suffolk. The charitable event held every year sees thousand of motorbike fans descend on Trinity Park near Ipswich to look at everything from customised [...]

Don't ignore your invitations for screening in 2024. Cancer Campaign in Suffolk is hoping that if you resolve to do one thing this January, you’ll resolve to go to your screening appointment. Our CEO Mark Murphy MBE says, “More than 25 per cent of us [...]

Here at Cancer Campaign in Suffolk we’re urging men to check their “baubles” this Christmas or get someone close to do it for them! The charity is launching the festive message hoping men will take a moment to check their testicles for anything unusual, a [...]

Donate £60 to Cancer Campaign in Suffolk and give the gift of counselling to those with a cancer diagnosis. We offer six FREE sessions of counselling to those with a cancer diagnosis, the sessions help patients to cope with the psychological side effects of cancer [...]

A massive thank you to everyone who supported our fundraising pudding night at the Froize on Friday. Especially David Grimwood and his team. Exceptional food as always and 3k to help more cancer patients in Suffolk. Amazing!

Thank you so much to everyone who supported the All About Hearing quiz night at Venue16 we raised over 2k to help us support more cancer patients in Suffolk.

Thank you to everyone who dropped in to Cancer Campaign in Suffolk - CCiS Cancer Wellbeing Hub to help us celebrate our 25th anniversary. Here's to the next 25!

Best of Suffolk are teaming up with Jason from Rubbish Walks and are doing a five-day litter pick along the Suffolk coastline in September!! They will be cleaning a different beach everyday, starting in Southwold on Monday 18th September and finishing in Aldeburgh on Friday [...]

NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE ANNOUNCED FOR CANCER CAMPAIGN IN SUFFOLK The Trustees of Cancer Campaign in Suffolk (CCiS) have today confirmed the appointment of a new Chief Executive, who will take over the role on 1st September, 2023. Mark Murphy, MBE, has been selected after a [...]

Willis Towers Watson Ipswich has announced it has selected Cancer Campaign in Suffolk (CCiS) as its new charity of the year for 2023/2024. CCiS is run from its Community Cancer Wellbeing Hub in central Ipswich and they work closely with ESNEFT hospital by providing complementary [...]

Wow! What a day! We opened our doors of our Cancer Wellbeing Hub last week officially to the public. We have been blown away by the support we have received from both old and new friends. We have made new contacts with individuals and businesses [...]

The winner of “Splash Planet”, the artwork that Ed Sheeran donated to CCiS, has raised £67,000 in ticket sales and donations. We have been overwhelmed by the number of tickets sold and the incredible donations that have been made, and we cannot thank you enough. [...]

The singer and songwriter, Ed Sheeran, has proved once again how passionate he is about charity work in Suffolk. Ed has generously donated a piece of his artwork to Cancer Campaign in Suffolk (CCiS) to raise vital funds for the ongoing work of the charity. [...]