NEWS & EVENTS

Life and loss in lockdown – Fred’s story

We were the kind of family that fast forwarded through the sad stories.  In 2019, we watched Celebrity Hunted on Channel4 for Stand Up To Cancer, and would reach for the remote as soon as the ad break started “Who watches these?” we would all shout, and text a donation to assuage the guilt. “One in two people will get cancer in their lifetime” the ad break said.  Thirteen year old Fred turned to his brother and said “I hope it’s you not me, I don’t want it” and we gasped in outraged horror.