MORE than 850 mums, daughters, sisters and friends took part in Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life event in Arrow Valley Park last Sunday.
Runners were cheered on by friends and family as well as Redditch community groups including Redditch Rock Choir who performed before the race started, and Redditch Rotarians, who volunteered as marshalls for the event.
In the past 20 years more than eight million women have taken part in Race for Life, raising more than £547million for the charity and the female-only event continues to help raise money for research into all 200 types of cancer.
The theme of the current campaign is ‘Beating Cancer Sooner’ and Katie Martin, Cancer Research UK’s event manager, said: “Life-saving research is being funded right now thanks to the women of Redditch and Bromsgrove running, jogging or walking at Race for Life.
“Our participants play a crucial role in helping to turn discoveries made in the lab into better treatments for patients in Redditch and across the UK and we’d like to thank everyone who took part in the event on last weekend.
“The atmosphere on the day was electric – full of emotion, courage, tears and laughter – as hundreds of like-minded ladies came together to unite in the fight against cancer.”
One in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some stage in their lives, although more people are surviving the disease now than ever before with survival rates double the figure of the early 1970s.
Visit raceforlife.org for information on returning sponsorship money, or to make a donation.
