Britcon Sponsor 'Team Verrico' Charity Event
Britcon sponsored Team Verrico Charity Event 'An Evening with Kevin Keegan' this weekend! An amazing charity supporting families facing rare or hard to treat cancers.
To date the charity has raised money to support over 70 families, funded over 750 counselling sessions, paid for 8 research grants into statistically less significant cancers and assisted those undergoing treatment by providing 183 travel support packages and 136 hotel rooms in that period.
Team Verrico funds cutting edge research aiming to find new or improved treatments for cancer. They have funded research projects undertaken by the University of Sheffield, University of Brighton and University of Nottingham.
The charity helps: ‘To promote and protect the physical and mental health of sufferers and their families of particularly lethal medical conditions’. Any money pledged to individual missions goes directly to that fund. Team Verrico’s involvement is raising awareness of these individual fights and wherever possible providing assistance and encouragement to additional fundraising efforts.
The charity helps:
‘To promote and protect the physical and mental health of sufferers and their families affected by particularly lethal medical conditions.’ Any money pledged to individual missions goes directly to that fund. Team Verrico’s involvement focuses on raising awareness of these individual battles and, wherever possible, providing assistance and encouragement for additional fundraising efforts.
The charity furthers this objective by supporting the publication of research in the area of triple-negative breast cancer and by producing informative films and events to raise awareness of the disease.
The charity was established in memory of Anna Verrico—a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend—who had a thirst for life and boundless ambition. And then cancer arrived. Initially, the diagnosis in November 2012 was of a stage 1, grade 3 tumour, which was triple-negative in nature. It didn’t appear to have spread, so aggressive surgery and chemotherapy followed. Anna had no cancer risk factors: she was a fit and healthy woman who ate an organic diet, abstained from nicotine, and rarely drank alcohol. There was no family history of the disease. Her death on the late evening of 19 November 2013 was a tragedy to all who loved her.
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Names left to right: Darren Hunt, Derrick Hunt, Gloria Hunt, Kevin Keegan, Lisa Hunt, Shaun Hunt, Michelle Hunt, Alicia Snow, and Declan Hunt.
For more information, visit Team Verrico.
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