Helm Housing run for Marie Curie Cancer Care

05 March 2010 - 05 March 2010

Representatives from Helm Housing were joined by U105’s Maurice Jay, a member of the Marie Curie Cancer Care celebrity marathon team, and several Marie Curie nurses as they called for entries for this year’s Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon (3 May 2010).

Marie Curie Cancer Care is the nominated local charity of this year’s Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon and is seeking to recruit some 1,500 people to run the marathon and benefit the charity by raising over £150K.

The money will equate to 7,500 hours of high quality nursing care that Marie Curie Nurses can provide to local communities totally free of charge, giving terminally ill patients the choice of dying at home, supported by their families.

Jean Fulton, Group Chief Executive of Helm Housing, explains how the housing association is getting behind the charity to help them with their fundraising efforts:

“We recently announced our 2 year charity partnership with Marie Curie Cancer Care and are delighted to be able to help with their marathon efforts. Our staff and tenants have already raised an impressive £7,000 in the last five months and we have just signed up one full marathon runner, two relay teams, eight walkers and a significant number of staff volunteers to help out along the marathon route.

“We would like to urge as many people as possible across Northern Ireland to put their best foot forward and take up the exciting challenge for Marie Curie Cancer Care.”

Maurice Jay explains why he has signed up to take part in the marathon and raise money for Marie Curie in the process:

“The Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon is a great opportunity for people of all ages and abilities to come together, have some fun and raise money for charity.

“Even if you are not a practiced runner, on seeing the tireless work that the Marie Curie Nurses do, I feel that you would be compelled to dust off your trainers and take part in the Belfast Marathon. The more people we can encourage to take part in the event and raise money for the charity in the process, the greater the number of high quality nursing care hours that can be provided free of charge to terminally ill patients.”

Encourage you friends and family to take part or if they cannot take part why not encourage them to volunteer on the day - we have a number of volunteer roles from Cheering stations to water stations!!. For more information on the 2010 Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon log on to www.belfastcitymarathon.com and to find out about running for Marie Curie Cancer Care contact 08700 340040 or visit www.mariecurie.org.uk/running.