Big Mission: To Raise £50K For DKMS In My 50th Year

Big Mission: To Raise £50K For DKMS In My 50th Year

As a proud Ambassador for DKMS_UK and former Oncology nurse, I feel very privileged to be celebrating my 50th birthday in February 2022 – that got me thinking! Mission 50 for DKMS was born!

What if I could do something to raise awareness for DKMS around the number 50?? 

What if I made it my Mission in the year 2022 to raise as much awareness and as many funds as possible?

I started playing around with ideas…

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Please consider this:

❣️Every 20 minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with a blood cancer such as leukaemia, lymphoma or melanoma.

❣️Someone somewhere in the world is diagnosed with blood cancer every 27 seconds.

❣️Only 30% of people diagnosed find a donor match within their family, that’s why swab kits to find donors are so important.

WE can help change that – please donate what you can, when you can.  

What is Mission 50 for DKMS?

My aim is to complete some challenges and events linking the number 5 during my 50th year and whilst doing so, raise as close to £50K as I can.. 

Let’s be honest – 50K is A LOT OF MONEY… 

Over 12 months that’s raising an average of £4,166.66 a month

Which equates to raising £961.53 a week ….. with my Mission to do this by Feb 1st 2023… We can do that – can we??

Now I know this is a little crazy, but my motto has always been to #dreamitliveit

Even if I just raise £500, that would be a huge amount more than if I hadn’t started this Mission.

Let’s see what we collectively can do!

Mission 50 will run from February 2022 for one whole year.. but training starts now and that means my fundraising page is OPEN!!!

Mission 50 for dkms

I’m calling on my friends, family and you to join me in anyway you can. Whether it be a training run, an event or donating a raffle prize, or donating to my fundraising page… Just think if everyone reading this page donated, we’d get there in no time! Imagine!!

Finalised calendar will be shared with you over the coming weeks and months. One thing for sure it that it won’t be easy! I’m not at all fit and lockdown poundage is real!!! 

Mission 50 for DKMS- The Plan!

Mission 50 for dkms

Anything to help would be a huge support. You know I am a huge fan of paying it forward and random acts of kindness and now, more than ever, I think we all need a little something to brighten our day and week.

Every donation helps no matter how big or how small and goes directly to DKMS.

If you can please share my pledge far and wide to your friends I’d be eternally grateful.

Let’s do what we can to help DKMS_UK, find the donors that are needed to save lives. 

Huge thanks from the bottom of my heart for helping me on my crazy Mission

Lots of love

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How To Become A Life Saver.

How To Become A Life Saver.

For someone diagnosed with blood cancer, a blood stem cell donation from a matching donor could be their last chance of survival, but what does it mean to become a stem cell donor?

Firstly, let’s talk about what DKMS is and why their work is so important..

Peter Harf, founder of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS speaks about our mission and the need for bone marrow donors.

Every 27 seconds, someone somewhere in the world is diagnosed with blood cancer.

How do I know I can donate my Stem Cells?

If you are aged between 17 and 55 years and in general good health, then you may be able to register as a blood stem cell donor.

If you register when you are 17, you will not be able to donate blood stem cells yet, but on your 18th birthday, you will automatically be activated in our database and included in the global donor searches.

What’s involved in donating blood stem cells?

DKMS_UK followed Tom, a blood stem cell donor’s journey through The London Clinic on donation day, hearing his experience of being called on to donate as well as insight into the process from staff and experts. Take a look at this 3 minute video to find out more. Gives me goosebumps every time I watch it!

“Someone, somewhere has a little part of you with them forever”

jade

Jade, 30, registered with DKMS after watching a friend’s mum go through cancer. A few years later, she gave a complete stranger a second chance of life by donating her blood stem cells.

Read Jade’s story here

“Knowing that little bag of goodness is potentially going to save someone’s life who you’ve never met is incredibly hard to describe until you do it.

It’s the most surreal feeling, so to anyone thinking about it – do it!”

Jade
blood cancer equates for nearly half of all new types of cancer diagnosed in children in the UK, it's why Mission 50 is so important

Just 2% of the UK’s population is currently on the stem cell register.. Alongside my Mission50forDKMS to raise £50K in my 50th year for DKMS, it is also my Mission to help change this statistic. If you can get involved or you know someone who would like to like to get involved, please, please do let them know!

We need all the help and support we can to help as many people as possible delete their blood cancer.

Thank you,

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