The conference was held at the HSBC Sports Club in Beckenham, Kent on 28th October 2008.

We were privileged to have first class speakers including Greg Anderson, our Founder and CEO, who is a world renowned authority on ` Wellness`, and himself a cancer survivor.

Grand national winning jockey Bob Champion MBE also addressed an audience of people living with cancer and cancer professionals at the CRF-UK conference. Following a cancer diagnosis in 1979, he achieved his goal of winning the Grand National in 1981 riding Aldaniti.

Mr Anil Desai, Director of the Princess Royal Hospital and Oncoplastic Breast Cancer Surgeon, spoke about ongoing support beyond breast cancer treatment. Other speakers included Dr Caroline Longmore and Breast Cancer Nurse Julia Goodall.

Pictured Above Right: Greg Anderson (CRF Founder and CEO) addresses the Beckenham conference. Pictured Above left: Greg Anderson with some of the speakers, answering audience questions. Pictured Centre Right: Bob Champion and Mr Anil Desai. Pictured Bottom Right: Bob Champion with Mrs Jacqueline Young, one of the nurses who treated him during his cancer recovery.

The conference was held at the prestigious Glasgow City Chambers on 23rd October 2008.

Pictured In the first photograph, from right; Jim Moulson (chair) and Speakers; Greg Anderson (CEO CRF), Bob Champion MBE, Dr Anna Campbell and Dr Caroline Longmore. The conference attendees listened to speeches on preventing and surviving cancer from a number of invited speakers and took part in exercises. There was also a question and  answer section during the open forum session.

Scottish Television News ran a story about the Glasgow conference, which was transmitted at 6pm on 23rd October 2008.

Scottish High Tea was held at the Millennium Hotel in Glasgow on October 22nd.

The High Tea was attended by donors who had been invited to meet some of the people working for Cancer Recovery Foundation - UK. It provided an opportunity for Greg Anderson to thank the assembled donors for their support and to discuss the charities vision for helping individuals and families living with cancer across the United Kingdom. The photograph top left shows Greg and Linda Anderson with two of our donors.

First Group Donates £6000
‘Thank You’ to First Group, Scotland’s leading travel company. Alan Reid, Internal Communication Manager at First Group is shown presenting CRF-UK with a cheque for £6000. First Group are our first corporate sponsor in Scotland and we will be working with their staff to deliver the much loved Bear-Able Gift Bags to hospitals that are caring for children with cancer in Scotland.

Read more about the Bear-Able Gift Bags Programme