Applebys Solicitors get their Running Shoes on for Charity.
Applebys Solicitors staff are in keen training to play their part in raising money for the Telegraph and Argus Crocus Cancer Appeal.
Eight members of Applebys staff are gearing up to tackle a 5K city centre course on Sunday the 26th October. Lunch time runs and protein drinks have become the norm as participating staff strive to prepare for the event jogging on the roads near their Undercliffe offices. Medical and dental negligence specialist Carol Cook indicated that ” I’d been thinking seriously about taking more exercise and this has provided just the incentive I needed and to raise money for cancer, a disease that my own family has been affected by, is fantastic”.
Amin Ullah, Principal of Applebys, and who is himself taking part, commented “This is such a fantastic cause that I’m delighted that so many of our staff have been able to enter the run”. He continued “Many of us have friends or relatives who have been affected by cancer so to be able to play a small part in the fight against it is wonderful”.
About the T&A Crocus Cancer Appeal:
The Telegraph & Argus Bradford Crocus Cancer Appeal aims to raise £1 million towards making the city’s ground-breaking work to fight the disease faster than ever before. In 2011, scientists at Bradford University pioneered a ‘smart bomb’ tumour-blasting treatment – a therapy which could dramatically reduce the horrendous side effects of chemotherapy suffered by cancer patients. This was thanks, in part, to generous T&A readers, who 12 years ago raised £1 million towards building the University’s state-of-the-art Institute of Cancer Therapeutics (ICT), where the breakthrough was made.
You smashed the target in our Bradford Can… cancer appeal in 2001 and we’re asking for your help once again. We have joined forces with the University, Yorkshire Cancer Research and the Sovereign Health Care Charitable Trust to buy the ICT a high-tech mass spectrometer – a machine which could hold the key to them making a vital discovery in the war on cancer.
Applebys Solicitors staff are in keen training to play their part in raising money for the Telegraph and Argus Crocus Cancer Appeal.
Photograph of some of the staff participating. From left to right:
Carol Cook, Atif Ullah, Khalid Khan, Amin Ullah, Emma Semwayo, Debbie Richards and Rahail Ullah.
Source: Telegraph and Argus web site.