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Are you looking for the latest updates from Lingen Davies? Stay up to date with the latest news on the charity and how we continue to enhance local cancer services.
Are you looking for the latest updates from Lingen Davies? Stay up to date with the latest news on the charity and how we continue to enhance local cancer services.
News 28th November 2024
Did you know that we fund a wide variety of wellbeing programmes to help being live well with, and beyond Cancer? For most of us, Christmas involves decorating the tree, singing carols and enjoying a roast dinner with all the trimmings but when you’re living with cancer the festive period can be hard to navigate. […]
News 27th November 2024
Lingen Davies Cancer Fund is hosting a family-friendly Christmas concert in Bayston Hill with music from the Shropshire Light Orchestra and Shrewsbury Male Voice Choir. Both the orchestra and choir will be performing a range of festive classics, with a chance to have a seasonal sing along. The charity exists to enhance and improve the […]
News 21st November 2024
On Sunday, 17th November we held a joint celebratory luncheon to mark Eaton Manor’s 90th and Lingen Davies’ 45th birthday. Eaton Manor kindly hosted us in their beautiful Events Centre, located on their impressive 500 acre south Shropshire estate. The sell-out lunch was a HUGE success raising over £6,100 for Lingen Davies! Guests enjoyed a […]
News 12th November 2024
Lingen Davies’ LiveLife team has been involved in a project in 2024 delivering our Cancer Champions training to prison staff and prisoners at Stoke Heath Prison in Market Drayton. Earlier this year the team held a wellbeing session at the prison, alongside this, staff and prisoners have attended the Cancer Champion cancer awareness training that […]
News 7th November 2024
A Telford-based artist and prostate cancer survivor has donated £25,000 worth of his art to a leading cancer charity in the region. John Wragg, an artist, former art teacher and road manager for British rock band Roxy Music, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2016. The 78-year-old from Oakengates, was living in Spain at the […]
News 5th November 2024
Lingen Davies is calling for public venues to add sanitary bins to male toilets and raise awareness that a lack of them is letting men down. Incontinence can be a side effect of cancer and cancer treatment for many men who can be left with serious bladder and bowel problems following treatment for bowel or […]
News 31st October 2024
Lingen Davies has been piloting an open water swimming project to help men and women with their wellbeing following a breast cancer diagnosis in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin and Mid Wales. Earlier this year, Nicky O’Sullivan, a Breast Cancer Nurse Specialist at Telford Princess Royal Hospital, contacted us to see how we could work together […]
News 28th October 2024
We have opened a new premises in Telford Town Centre to boost fundraising, continue to enhance local cancer services, and grow our cancer awareness work. Lingen Davies Cancer Fund has been supporting those affected by cancer in Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, and Mid Wales for 45 years and plans are now underway for the next […]
News 23rd October 2024
Titty Trail Shropshire 2024 was held on 12th October to mark breast cancer awareness month with an aim to get people walking and talking, breaking the taboos surrounding checking your chest and attending your cancer screenings. More than 225 people walked 10 miles across the Shropshire Hills to raise awareness of breast cancer and boost […]
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