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I can’t believe Glastonbury is nearly upon us once again. It only seems two minutes since last year. Will soon be posting my perfect festival outfit ideas!

As many of you are already aware, my mother, wife and friend to many, passed away in January after battling cancer for eighteen years.My father Graham, brother Matthew and I have for some weeks been discussing how we could ever thank all the people and organisations that cared for my mother during her long battle. At times like this words seem totally inadequate as a means of saying thank you and we have therefore decided to set up a memorial fund in my mother’s name with the sole purpose of raising significant funds for the following four charities.

Marie Curie who provided my mother with regular overnight nursing care to allow my father, brother and I to get some rest.

Macmillan Cancer Support who provided my mother and the whole family with a specialist nurse to guide us through all the terminal stages of her cancer.

Sue Ryder who provided trained carers morning and night to ensure my mother was as comfortable as possible from the moment she became bed ridden.

Beaumond House Community Hospice in Newark who worked tirelessly to make sure that my mother’s last few months were as comfortable and as happy as they could possibly be.

Without these charitable organisations I do not know how we as a family would have coped. Despite my mother being so ill for so long we had no idea what caring for a terminally ill person involved. It is only because we had the support of these charities that my mother was able to fulfil her wish of dying peacefully at home. 


I am sure those of you who were lucky enough to call her your friend, or were fortunate to have met her in passing will know how important it would have been for us to wish her a fond farewell, to celebrate her zest for life and most importantly to give something back to the people who helped her. Whilst the last few years have been some of the saddest and hardest my family and I will ever have to endure, they have also been some of the happiest and certainly the most special. My mother was a truly wonderful person and I am proud of how her strength and determination inspired many. I know that everyone who met her admired her ability to smile, laugh and enjoy her life despite the cancer. We are keen to take a pro-active approach to raising as much money as we can, so if any of you have ideas and would like to help with further fund raising initiatives in the coming months then please let me know. We hope to spread the word of our fund raising efforts far and wide and I am sure that with your support we will be able to raise a sizeable sum to honour my mother’s memory. 

If you would like to make a donation directly to the memorial account the details of which are as follows:

Account Name: The Sue Crawford Memorial Fund.
Sort Code: 40-28-20.
Account Number: 92799952.

There is also a link to our PayPal account below as our website that takes you directly to the donation page.

Thank you

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