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Britain’s oldest married couple celebrate their oak wedding anniversary with a donation to LMRUK
This summer Nancy and Eric Kingston celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary in their village of Blackford in Somerset, making them Britain’s longest surviving married couple. Nancy, who turns 100 in October, and Eric, who recently turned 99, first met in 1937 on a...
Our Charity Ambassador, Winter Olympian Zoe Gillings-Brier, shares her reasons for storing her children’s cord blood stem cells
Four-time Winter Olympian and Team GB Olympic snowboard cross athlete (SBX), Zoe Gillings-Brier, has partnered with Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK (LMRUK) as an official charity ambassador. Zoe is not only one of Team GB’s most successful SBX athletes of all...
Our June Newsletter
In our latest update, we share links to some useful websites to help guide you through these unprecedented times and our Charity Ambassador, four-time Winter Olympian, Zoe Gillings-Brier shares a special message to all our fantastic fundraisers. We also launch our...
The Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK Charity Quiz is here!
We’re excited to announce that our new quiz is ready for you to download and share with your friends and family, whether it’s online or by a socially distanced outdoor get together, it’s time to get your thinking caps on. During this challenging time, we know a lot...
Cord blood for stem cell transplant may outperform matched sibling donor
When a cancer patient needs a bone marrow transplant, there are four common donor sources: A matched related donor (sibling), a matched unrelated donor (from a donor database), a half-matched donor, or umbilical cord blood. Of course, there are plusses and minuses to...
Lucy’s birthday fundraiser
Lucy Drew, a 31-year-old primary school teacher in Somerset marked her birthday this year with a fundraiser in memory of her brother-in-law Nik Drew, who lost his battle with leukaemia at the age of 40 on Saturday 15th February 2020. Here is Lucy’s story: “Nik was...
Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK supports front line medical staff with a charitable grant
Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK (LMRUK) has given a generous grant of £20,000 to R Charity to help support medical staff during the COVID-19 outbreak. R Charity raises vital funds to enable Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to provide the best...
Aviva employees put their pennies to a good cause supporting LMRUK
Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK (LMRUK) has been awarded vital funding from employees at asset management company, Aviva through their ‘Pennies for Good’ scheme. As part of Aviva’s Social Responsibility commitments, the firm runs an annual ‘Pennies for Good’...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) update
You will be aware of the current coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and during this challenging time we are keeping a close watch on advice from Public Health England. The current advice can be found here:...
Four-time Winter Olympian Zoe Gillings-Brier announces support for blood cancer charity LMRUK
Team GB Olympic snowboard cross athlete (SBX), Zoe Gillings-Brier, has partnered with blood cancer research charity, Leukaemia & Myeloma Research UK (LMRUK) as an official charity ambassador. Zoe is not only one of the GB’s most successful SBX athletes of all...
