The Essential Guide Magazine Culcheth May - June 2014 | Page 12

LIVE LOCAL? BUY LOCAL! Essential Feature It’s time to take on Cancer Race For Life 2014 Launches In Cheshire Cheshire women are being urged to join forces and show cancer who’s boss by signing up to Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life 2014 which is now open for entries. Every day, around 100 people are diagnosed with cancer in the North West*. Everyone is special, everyone is somebody’s mum, dad, brother, sister, friend or colleague. And that’s why Cancer Research UK is calling on Cheshire women of all ages, shapes and sizes, to defy this dreadful disease by entering Race for Life 5k or 10k events at Tatton Park on Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June. Event organisers are issuing the rallying cry ‘cancer, we’re coming to get you’ and urging women to sign up as soon as possible. Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life, in partnership with Tesco, is an inspiring women-only series of 5k and 10k events which raise millions of pounds every year to help defeat cancer by funding lifesaving research. Liz Booth, Cancer Research UK’s Cheshire Events Manager, said: “We’re calling on Cheshire’s mighty-mums, gutsy-grans, feisty friends and go-getting girls to join our formidable army and take on cancer at this year’s Race fo