June is Male Cancer awareness month and we will be ensuring for the whole month we push as much cancer information to you as we can. We will also be asking you to  hold events and awareness campaigns to raise the nations awareness of cancer in Men.

The first week of June is our main awareness week and we will be asking schools and offices to wear blue on Friday the 10th to show their support of all of the 200,000 men diagnosed with cancer every yea

Please help us make Male cancer as important as our Female fighters

Sheffield-based Singer songwriter, Music Producer and DJ, Damon Hess, who has collaborated  with many top class guest artists, has stepped into Ex Army Infantry boxer- turned professional fighter, Ross Burkinshaw‘scorner, to write and produce his own entrance music in time for his WBO Inter-Continental Bantamweight title  fight on May 30^th, when he faces South African Klaas Mboyane.

Burkinshaw is yet to step out to into the ring with his own entrance music, a fact which Hess felt needed to be rectified. “Against All Odds”, release date 22^nd May 2015, will not only bolster the likeable Sheffield fighter on his way to the ring, but also raise well needed funds for two of the charities Ross supports.

Upon its release to iTunes, proceeds will be split between Balls to Cancer, a charity raising funds for male cancer awareness and education and Hallam FMs Cash for Kids, a grant giving charity which supports individual children, groups and children’s charities where children are sick, deprived and in need of extra support.

Sheffield, Yorkshire and UK residents all now have the opportunity to stand behind one of it’s heroes, when he will move one step closer to his title dream with the head to head clash with Mboyane at Rotherham’s Magna Centre, accompanied by the musical pomp and ceremony any such prizefighter deserves.

At the end of March and to launch our Testicular cancer awareness month of April we took our #FumbleFriday campaign on the road to the Students Union of Birmingham University.

We wanted to see if men could describe the feel of their balls and found that the male students were a little shy and it took the girls to push the lads to get involved. Embarrassment  is the main problem with testicular cancer diagnosis and was clear that men didn’t even want to talk about them.

However as you will see below we eventually got there. Hopefully we will be able to do this nationwide!!

Thanks to all that took part

Thanks to the support of our #Teamnuts we were able to give terminally ill Tom Cooper, his wife and two young children a brilliant Birthday night out and meal at his favorite restaurant Bombay Hut  in Burnley.

We also supplied them a brand new washing machine when theirs broke down.

Please read Toms story…..

“Just as everything was looking bright and promising, our worlds came tumbling down in October 2011 when I was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma – a rare type of cancer in this country that is behind the nose. On the same day we were also told it had already spread to the neck, collar bone, lymph nodes under both arms and lungs. I was told that I had probably had it at least 2 years already and that it was not curable. Devastating news, very hard to hear and life has been very difficult since, but looking at my two beautiful girls…. They keep me and my family going, and that’s the reason were fighting this strong TOGETHER!! ♥”

During April  (Testicular cancer awareness month) we were working hard to push  awareness of the dangers of Testicular cancer in men and boys with our #RealityCheck campaign . With the help of many TV reality stars we managed to get into several magazines, more online publications and a brilliant Twitter and Facebook campaigns getting the message to many more people.

Behind the scenes we were aided by the fantastic Tom O’Connell (former Big Brother contestant)

This particular post by Spencer Mattthews & Lauren Hutton got us mentioned by OK magazine as they thought the comment by Lauren was “distasteful” we certainly don’t agree with that, partners are the ones that often find changes in their partners bodies.

We got our good friend Harry Derbidge interviews discussing the findings of our survey that more men are concerned about their tan, hair and teeth before their testicles.

We had stars like Carl Foggerty,Ricky Rayment, Nicholas McDonald, Stuart Hosking, Harry Derbidge, Kris  Skinner,Sam Thompson, Shayne Ward, Brian Dowling & Mark Bryon

As part of our #MakingMemories campaign we have a luxury holiday home on the Haven Holiday park in Burnham-on-sea for cancer fighters.

Jayne is the first of this seasons fighters who have taken advantage of the break to take her family on a much needed break as part of cancer recovery.

Jayne tells us the whole family had a brilliant time and we hope goes someway to putting Jayne on the road to recovery.

As part of our #MakingMemories campaign we arranged for Tony to have the day of his dreams and forfil his #Bucketlist wish of visiting his favourite formula 1 racing team Williams.

Tony has been fighting cancer for some time and is currently receiving radiotherapy. Tony’s fiance Sue told us “it was one of the happiest days of his life”

This is what the #MakingMemories campaign is all about.

Here’s a few photo’s of the day.

The fabulous designer Masato Jones are holding a May bank holiday fundraising weekend for us. For every full price tee shirt bought over the weekend they will very kindly donate £5 to our campaign.

Please help them, help us, help you. Thank you

Please click here to get involved today!!

Balls to Cancer have teamed up with the brilliant ev2sportswear.com  to bring you new football kits with shirts. shorts, socks, shirt number and sponsors name for the fantastic price of £27 + VAT. EV2 Sportswear have very kindly offered to donate £1 per kit to the charity but more importantly for us, they will print the Balls to cancer logo on every shirt to help you help us promote the charity and the importance to check for cancer.

So please visit the website design your kit and email your enquiry/order to mark@ballstocancer.com and a copy to sales@ev2sportswear.co.uk

Show your supporters, friends & family the importance of male cancer awareness