It’s that time of year again when we ask you to buy a brand new toy (have to be brand new due to Health and Safety regulations) for us to donate to children’s hospitals around the country.

Help us make Christmas that little bit better for the hundreds of children that are ill some terminally in hospitals.

Please send your gifts (unwrapped) to..

Balls to Cancer

The Lodge

Mason St

Coseley

Wolverhampton

WV14 9SZ

We are running a no alcohol campaign for October called #Teatober. All we ask you to do is to donate £3 and stay Alcohol free for the mouth, this will help us and will help your body recover from the damage Alcohol can cause.

Fancy having your car cleaned tomorrow? Fancy The Dreamboys and Danny Osborne from Towie like this https://t.co/0uLWyzUXTB ? then get yourselves down to Lellers Car Valeting, 100 Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1M 5RJ from 12-6pm.

These gents are offering their time free of charge to help us raise awareness for male cancer and funds to help us help you.

Please dig deep and support the lads.

See you there!!!

Introducing the Square Pass Sweepstake.

The Sweepstake is a very simple game, all you have to do is pick 5 different clubs (1 from each of the 5 leagues) from your £50m budget and accumulate as many points as you can throughout the 2014/15 season. You don’t have to pick the winners of the leagues, pick players or make transfers etc. It’s a one off selection.

Accumulating points:
League games: 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw.

Cup Games: 5 bonus points for every win in the FA Cup. 3 bonus points for every League Cup win & 5 bonus points for every JPT win (progression to the next round also counts as a win, byes given are not included).

The cost is a 1 off payment of £5 per entry. £3 will go into the prize pot and £2 will go to Balls to Cancer.
Prizes are:      60% of the prize pot will go to the winner who accumulates the most points, 30% to

2nd and 10% to 3rd.

There is also a £50 bonus prize if you collect 15 league points on a Saturday.

So what are waiting for get your selections in at http://www.squarepass.org/sweepstake/

Yesterday we had the pleasure of visiting the Birmingham Childrens Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (largest in Europe) to launch the brilliant new sensory equipment that, thanks to you, we were able to fund for them.

The equipment (costing a total of £10,000)  is a very important part of the recovery process and helps the children enjoy their stay in the unit.

We were able to surprise the children and their families with the appearance of our ambassadors Comedian, Russell Kane and singer, Ritchie Neville who spent time with the children and parents.

Thanks to our friends at Beatsabar Studio, they are offering anyone the following fantastic opportunity.

Enjoy a 90-minute recording studio experience for two. Record your favourite pop song and have a blast singing your favourite tune with a friend. Your song will be professionally enhanced before the recording is made into your very own CD for you to take home. Become a pop star for the day. Free Refreshments throughout.

• £30 for a 90-minute recording studio session for two people with one CD to take home (20% to Charity)
• You’ll be guided through the acoustically treated, sound-proofed live room
• Professionals then digitally mix and master your session
• Take home your own CD as a memento

• Sold by Beatsabar Music Project
• 20% goes to Balls To Cancer
• Limit one voucher per customer; send as many as you like as gifts
• Bookings are required and are subject to availability
• The merchant requires a notice period of 48 hours for cancellations or rescheduling, or your voucher will be considered used
• Customers under the age of 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult
• No experience required
• Customer has the option to attend and record their songs without a companion
• Voucher valid Monday – Sunday, 9am – 5pm
• Experience lasts for 90-minutes which is enough time to record 2 songs
• Customers will receive one copy of their songs on a CD to take home at the end of the session
• Entire redeemable value of the voucher must be used in a single visit
• Available for use beginning the day after purchase
• The amount paid for the voucher does not expire.

We are very happy to announce that we have agreed to join Cancer 52 as we believe that ALL cancer sufferers are important and that no one should be over looked.

Cancer52 has grown from an initial group brought together at the request of the National Cancer Director, Mike Richards to input into the Cancer Reform Strategy.

We are so named because 52% of cancer deaths in the UK are from the less common cancers (i.e. excluding the ‘big four’: bowel, breast, lung and prostate), although in 2013 this proportion increased to 54%.

Cancer52 is an alliance of more than 70 organisations working to address the inequalities that exist in policy, services and research into the less common cancers and to improve outcomes for patients with these highly challenging diseases. Most who work for the organisation give their time and resources on a voluntary basis.

We are looking for volunteers across the UK to arrange fundraising events for us. Could you do it?

We will help you with posters, leaflets and support you while you arrange and advertise your event.

You can do anything runs, karaoke nights, parties, bingo, race nights, football matches etc…. anything at all

So please join us and help us save lives today.

We know that there are thousands of cancer sufferers in the UK that could do with a little help or just a simple night out.

So we have decided that that is what we will do.

If you know of anyone who is worthy of a night out or even needs something repairing or replacing, we will do our up most to sort it out for them.

Please share this post with everyone you know, someone you know will need our help.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer three days before my 50th birthday, on 12th January 2012. It was a shock because I was unaware that men could suffer from it. I started the blog because I felt that I had to raise awareness that men could get breast cancer too. It has also proved to be therapeutic and has helped me to meet some amazing people.

In the first few weeks of my writing, things got tough, my Mastectomy was cancelled due to being diagnosed as type two diabetic and then I lost my Mum  rather unexpectedly.I was devastated but after some thought, I vowed to continue to write. It was definitely the best thing to do.

My blog is called One of 300 men, because when I was diagnosed, there were only 300 men who were diagnosed. also. Sadly, that number is rising.

Please visit Doug’s blog here http://dougeharper.wordpress.com/