Cancer Research UK Relay for Life Horsham 2009Cancer Research UK Relay for Life Horsham 2009

Relay For Life Horsham 2009! An Invitation...

 

What is Relay For Life? Local teams of friends, family, neighbours and colleagues, fundraise within their local communities throughout the year, raising all they can for the life-saving work of Cancer Research UK, then get together for a great overnight party of celebration and commemoration that everyone in the community can join in.

During the Relay, team members take it in turns to walk round the track. This isn't to do with athletics or sponsored runs, as teams fundraise throughout the year and Relay is a celebration of their achievements. There's a Survivors' Lap of Honour and a Candle of Hope ceremony too, to remember those touched by cancer.   

There's entertainment from the local community including music, competitions, fun things to do…everything that goes to make up a great carnival atmosphere.

What does a team captain do? Relay For Life teams are usually made up of between 8 to 15 people – they can be friends, family, neighbours, workmates, anyone you know who’s happy to join you in the fun and the fundraising that lead up to the event. So signing up as a team captain simply means getting a few people together – and supplying a bit of inspiration and encouragement to raise lots of money for life-saving research.

At your local Relay For Life event, you’ll be camping overnight with your team, sharing in the community festivities, taking turns to walk the track, perhaps commemorating someone special or joining cancer survivors in a celebratory circuit.

Relay For Life is happening in communities all over the UK and the world and now it's happening in Your community at Broadbridge Heath Leisure Centre on the 18th-19th July 2009 so you can get involved and make a difference.

Sign up at www.cancerresearchuk.org/relay, email for further details to event@relayforlifehorsham.org.uk or phone Lisa on 0771 22 945 77

Will you give one day of your life to think about your part in Cancer Research UK mission to find cures for cancer? Relay For Life is 24 hours in the footsteps of someone living with cancer –it will get cold, hard and lonely, like the cancer journey, but the sun will come up and it will be a new day and new hope for cures.

Remember lives, Celebrate life, Make a difference

 

 

HOPE

Hope is the feeling
The very thing that gives us strength
Hope is the expectation
That we desire at great length

We are all here for one reason
To support the global fight
You are all an inspiration
As you walk through day and night

As we light these candles
We stand in personal thought
Everyone their own memories
In which we are all caught

Let us build a better world
And stand together tonight
Think about your candles
As we watch them burn through the night

With hope we can find unity
And stand up tall together
As one we can be winners
And friends we’ll be forever

Some are here to remember
Others want to celebrate
One night, one day, one reason
A parent, a partner, a mate.

A poem by Phil Harding read at the Candle Of Hope Ceremony, at dusk, by an 11 year old, cancer survivor.

 

 

 

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