We are delighted to offer you all an opportunity to get involved! We still need to raise a minimum of £100,00 a year to continue the support to all those affected by Congenital Melanocytic Naevi, to fund pioneering research at Great Ormond Street Hospital and The Institute of Child Health and to raise awareness of…
Wow, 20 years of Caring Matters Now, who’d have thought that the seeds sown all those years ago would have grown into such a strong and bene cial entity. Co-incidentally, it would have been our Holly’s 18th birthday this year so what a better way to celebrate than to join in with the CMN coffee…
The Yorkshire 3 Peak Challenge (Y3PC) began with an early 7am start on a cloudy Saturday morning on 20th May in the car park to the Golden Lion pub, Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. The Y3PC organisers had set up a registration tent in the car park and this is where I…
Our amazing team of 5 took on the challenge and well and truly nailed it! On Saturday 2nd September our CMN team met early at Langar Airfield, Nottingham to face the daughnting challenge of throwing themselves out of a plane! The weather as you will see from the video was fabulous and each of our…
The CMN trustees are very pleased to announce that Silicon Valley Community Foundation have granted $10,000 to further the work of Caring Matters Now. This wonderful grant will fund all our support events throughout the 2017-18 financial year. It is with thanks to one of our CMN members that we received this grant. Esther, who…
Caring Matters Now charity is working in partnership with the world-renowned photographer Brock Elbank, who is best known for his recent series ‘Freckles’ which appeared in media outlets worldwide. As part of the ‘Freckles’ series, Brock photographed a young lady from Barcelona who has CMN (Congenital Melanocytic Naevus)
To celebrate our charity’s 20th anniversary, we are holding a prestigious celebratory ball in Liverpool on the 3rd June. During the event, guests will have the opportunity to bid for some very special auction items with all profits going towards the CMN research. The GREAT news is, you and your friends can also bid on any…
Me and my friends, Alex Brown and Kacy Harrison took part in the tenner challenge because we were one of the selected 7 groups to participate. We were given £10 to start a small business, ours was selling cakes with cake toppers on them. We sold cakes every break and lunch for 4 weeks from…
Elijah was born on 2nd May 2014, after a healthy, normal pregnancy. Our daughter had been born 16 months previously and having been induced to begin a 53-hour labor with her, we were delighted at Elijah’s easy arrival! We were “ready for this,” and we’d “had a baby already”- we were going to “really enjoy…
Our Dearest Holly – by her Mum and Dad Holly was born 1st December 2011. She was our second child, a little sister to Callum who at the time was 18 months old. Holly didn’t have a straight forward delivery and she was three days old when we were informed of her exact condition before…
