Last May, 270 people went from door-to-door in Chipperfield and Sarratt, as well as Rickmansworth, Chorleywood, Moor Park and Croxley Green, and collected over �10,100 during one week. What a wonderful result! In addition, 24 people collected at the door at Tesco in Rickmansworth in July and raised another �1,600 in two days. Recently our local committee was awarded a certificate for our work by the Valuing Volunteers Organisation in Hertfordshire.

Cancer Research UK has been in the news quite frequently, not just for the number of successful break-through results from research work. Also our Patron, HM the Queen, opened a state of the art laboratory at Addenbrooks Hospital, Cambridge, where professors and doctors in Oncology from all over the world use their expertise and knowledge. The UK is now the leading force in cancer research. Great progress is being made but of course money is always needed as there are so many different kinds of cancer which need different treatment.

So, on behalf of Cancer Research UK and our local committee, I would like to say a big “Thank You” to all who gave their valuable time and to those who gave so generously during our yearly collections.

Mariet Bramall, Chairman of the local committee