The Christie NHS FT Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

Our generous supporters

The Christie charity supports the development of cancer prevention, treatment, research and education.

air a warm glow. 392 people lit up the sky in their neon outfits and raised £32,000. Our carol concert at Manchester Cathedral in December once again completely sold out as did our new carol concert in Macclesfield at St Michaels Church in the town centre. This year’s ‘Atlantis’ themed charity ball raised an amazing £162,000. With performances form acrobats, singers, bands and a DJ set from Packy Lee from the Peaky Blinders cast; our guests were certainly spoilt and delighted. The charity has exciting plans for the future. We are raising funds to build our new cancer centre in Macclesfield, redevelop our CT department and to redevelop the art room to include a relaxation area and outside space. We can’t do this without the incredible support of our donors. Our loyal supporters enable us to and their families receive the best care and treatment and that The Christie remains at the forefront of research advancements. We only exist because of the fantastic support from all of our amazing fundraisers. We really do value everything that our supporters do, whether it’s raising funds or giving up their time to volunteer.

The success of The Christie charity is based upon the relationships built with patients and supporters, whose generosity helps us deliver a broad range of projects from life-saving research and latest high tech equipment, to support services, that help us make cancer treatments more effective and a little easier for our patients. In the last year, there have been 1,879 fundraising activities in the community, 7,958 sporting event participants, 7760 corporate donations, 181 legators and we had support from 50 charitable trusts. Our supporters have raised £15.3m. This year we introduced three new exciting events, a Zip slide at Old Trafford, a Fire walk in Macclesfield and our Frosty 5K run at Heaton Park. Between them they raised over £70,000. The Great Manchester run saw over 1346 people take to the Manchester streets raising over £291,000. Our Manchester to Blackpool bike ride saw 1379 cyclists on a bright sunny day take on the 60 mile challenge raising an amazing £222,076. Our Walk of Hope event took place on a glorious September evening and 405 walkers raised £47,000. The weather at our Night of Neon event at Media City was certainly chilly but the response from our walkers gave the evening

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