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SCH Site Services managing director Gary
Finley (left) with charity fundraiser Mark Solan at
the ROF 59 activity centre in Newton Aycliffe.
Steel firm gets behind
cancer charity crusader
Local businesses are rallying behind an independent charity which
is helping families in their fight against cancer.
Newton Aycliffe firm SCH Site Services
is the latest company to support the Solan
Connor Fawcett Family Cancer Trust, set up
by charity crusader Mark Solan.
Mark raised £22,000 for Cancer Research
UK from a charity boxing match last July after
losing family and friends to the disease, and
was later nominated for a Pride of Britain
Award, narrowly missing out in the regional
finals.
The 42-year-old has since raised another
£20,000 and is already helping families from
Newton Aycliffe, Spennymoor and other parts
of the region who are dealing with cancer.
Now Mark – who lost his mother, Kay,
and grandmother, Edith, to cancer – wants
businesses and individual