Martin Earwicker. Chair Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Greenham Oncology Centre officially opens!
Thanks to The Ark Cancer Charity and a grant from the Greenham Trust, £2 million has been invested into our formerly known Rainbow Unit to be redesigned and reopened as the Greenham Oncology Centre!

Opened in July, by the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, the centre focuses on delivering high quality, effective and compassionate care. The staff aim to meet the patients’ needs by providing holistic and personalised care and each year up to 100,000 treatments will take place within the centre.

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The fabulous Jenny Thurgut is celebrating her 80^th birthday by taking part in a Wing Walk in aid of the Ark Cancer Charity.  To read Jenny’s story and support her challenge please visit www.justgiving.com/page/Jenny-thurgut-1

Thank you to the Basingstoke Loddon Rotary Club for inviting Fundraising Manager, Helena and Ark Cancer Charity Ambassador, Lin Osborn to give a talk about the work of the charity to their members.

We were delighted to be part of the recent Health & Wellbeing Event in Festival Place, Basingstoke, promoting the services of the Ark Cancer Charity.  Thank you to everyone who took part in our tombola and came over to say hello.

Thank you to local author Richard Hornblow for donated copies of his collection of animal poems, Animal Shorts! to the Ark Cancer Charity.  If you would like to receive a copy for a small donation, please contact info@arkcancercharity.org.uk

The Basingstoke and District Invitation Pool League recently held their Spring 2025 Presentation Evening, raising an incredible £1,066.30 for Ark Cancer Charity and Neuroblastoma UK through their raffle and auction.

A huge thank you to the Armstrong Family, Rosemary, Helen and Bruce for generously donating £20,000 for the refurbishment of the Garden Room, an additional wellbeing treatment room in the Ark Cancer Charity Wellbeing Centre. 

We are currently looking for locations to expand the number of Charity Textile Banks we have in the Basingstoke and North Hampshire area.  If you could host a textile bank for the Ark Cancer Charity, please contact info@arkcancercharity.org.uk

The fabulous Lin Osborn took part in her 80 4 80 challenge on Wednesday 4th June, riding 80 miles from Poole, Dorset to Old Basing, Hampshire on her 80th birthday to raise awareness and thank the Ark Cancer Charity for the services she received during her cancer treatment.  Originally setting herself a fundraising target of £800, Lin smashed this raising nearly £4,000 for ACC, with donations still coming in.

Lin recently received treatment in the Wellbeing Centre following her cancer diagnosis last year and found the therapy and counselling during and after her cancer treatment enormously helpful during such an uncertain and difficult time. To read Lin’s full story please visit https://www.justgiving.com/page/lin-osborn-2

Thank you to the Cancer Services Partnership CSP for their generous donation of £564.10.

Thank you to the organisers of the Revive + Thrive, Health, Fitness & Wellbeing Show, for choosing the Ark Cancer Charity as their nominated charity.  We were delighted to attend the event and raise awareness of the services we provide to cancer patients receiving treatment at HHFT.

The Team at the Basingstoke Healthcare Library, based at the Ark Conference Centre raised £262.79 from their sale of donated books throughout the year.

Customers at Tesco, Chineham, generously donated to a bucket collection at the end of April in store, raising £385.91, which was fantastic.

Thank you to the young people from Hampshire Achieves for holding a fundraising book sale in Festival Place and raising over £135.

Well done and thank you, to James Gardiner for completing a series of walking challenges over the past few months, including the Windsor Easter 50K and the 100K Isle of Wight Challenge as part of his ongoing commitment to fundraise for the Ark Cancer Charity.  To date James has raised £3,362, with lots more events planned. 

At the age of 44 years old it came as an enormous shock for James Gardiner to be diagnosed with Lymphoma Type 3a but with the help and care of everyone in the Greenham Oncology Centre James is now in remission.James is raising money in support of the Ark Cancer Charity who have provided funding initiatives for the Greenham Oncology Centre and wellbeing support in the Ark Cancer Charity Wellbeing Centre for cancer patients, by taking part in several fundraising initiatives.To hear James’ story and interview on That’s TV Hampshire, please visit the link below.That's TV Hampshire on X: ""I was in a lot of physical and mental pain." Cancer survivor James Gardiner spoke to That's TV about why he has been inspired to take on Windsor Easter 50 this week, before the Isle of Wight 106km challenge next month for @Ark_Charity. https://t.co/rCLgyZi994" / X

The Barkers, Minikins, and Macklens, all took part in the Romsey Relay Marathon on 18^th May and raised £410, which has been added to the incredible £2,051 Sarah Barker raised by taking part in the Manchester Marathon at the end of April, thank you all so much.

Thank you to all the staff at TRL in Crowthorne who held a series of cake sales and raised £120 for the Ark Cancer Charity.

Members of the Basingstoke Conservative Club chose the Ark as their nominated Charity of the Year, for 2024/2025, raising an incredible £8,360.28 during this period.

Fundraising Manager, Helena Maskell was delighted to give a talk on behalf of the Ark Cancer Charity to the Rotary Club of Basingstoke Deane at the beginning of April, to have the opportunity to thank their members for all their support over the years and update them on the work of the charity.

Congratulations to Trevor Taylor and Herbie Gair-Bridle for completing their 24 hours 100K Hare and the Tortoise Challenge on Saturday 8^th March 2025 and raising over £2,000 for the Ark Cancer Charity.