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Sign up now to take part in our 2019 Coffee & Cake Morning 21st – 23rd June 2019 This is a fun and easy way for everyone to get involved and help raise funds for Caring Matters Now. You can organise your coffee and cake morning at home, school, or your place of work; bringing…

By Mark Melia My name is Mark and I am a dad of a little girl affected by CMN.  I am one half of an award-winning music and entertainment duo called Rock Revolution. Over the years we have been very proud to support a wide range of charities, offering our services and providing entertainment at many fundraising events. …

7 Challenges on 7 Continents Challenge! This little cutie is my three year old daughter Madeleine. Once you look past her gorgeous eyes and beautiful smile, you may notice she has a CMN over her left eye. She also has a bigger one on her scalp. It’s difficult to tell if or how Maddy will…

The 7 challenges on 7 continents adventure continues. Stok Kangri Summit Trek, 14-28 June 2019 Join our amazing team of trekkers for the biggest charity challenge to date!  Caring Matters Now is seeking 16 individuals to take on the Stok Kangri Summit Trek, reaching 6,114 metres – which is 219 metres HIGHER than Mount Kilimanjaro!…

Huge thanks to Metro Safety for their generous donation and in raising awareness of CMN: Metro Safety’s 25th anniversary charity initiative raises £3,400 for Caring Matters Now In celebration of Metro Safety’s 25th anniversary year the company set themselves the challenge of raising £20,000, to be split between four worthwhile charities: Caring Matters Now MacMillan…

As part of my company’s 25th Anniversary year, we set ourselves a challenge of raising, £20,000 for 4 good causes. We work in safety, so we chose Children’s’ Burns Trust and Mesothelioma UK as our first two causes. I was lucky enough to put forward Caring Matters Now and have it accepted as the next…

In December 2014, one of our founding trustees Jessica Ma sadly lost her battle with cancer. Jessica was not only a trustee to the Caring Matters Now charity, but also an amazing, courageous and inspirational friend to many in the charity and beyond. Caring Matters Now established the Jessica Ma Award to publicly acknowledge and…

Caring Matters Now is an ever-growing charity! Each year our membership list continually grows, research continually develops and opportunities to raise awareness of CMN continually increases. As long as there is a demand for support, research and awareness, Caring Matters Now will continue to do all we can to fulfil these three main aims. Since…

2017 Jessica Ma Award Runner Up It was 8:30am when my phone rang while I was starting my day at work. “Can you get to Dover for 2am Saturday?” “As in tomorrow? No, I can’t get from Pitlochry in that time!”. “oh…. How about Sunday at 2am?” That was what started the journey that I…

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…

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…

In December 2014 one of our founding trustees Jessica Ma lost her battle with cancer. Jessica was not only a trustee to the Caring Matters Now charity, but also an amazing, courageous and inspirational friend to many in the charity and beyond. Jessica was passionate about Caring Matters Now and the trustees feel her loss…

Hello my name is Ava and my brother Harrison has CMN. You may remember me as last year I did a sponsored silence and raised £170.20 for the charity, as I have been trying hard to be a CMN Champion. This year, my nan registered online to do the special CMN coffee morning on 24th…

My sister and I decided to take on a 3 mile swim to raise awareness and funds for CMN and Caring Matters Now. We trained for around 3 months starting with a very basic 20-30 length swim and growing this weekly until we were doing one full length swim amongst shorter ones each week for…

I organized a charity night on Saturday 21st May at Dinnington Resource Centre. The evening included the absolutely fantastic singer, Dave Perkins performing some classic hits from The Rat Pack, Michael Bublé, Gary Barlow and Take That. He went down a storm! I showed a CMN video clip to represent exactly what Caring Matters Now…

Joanne and I attended the Annual Greater Manchester Police Federation Charity Dinner Dance last night. It was not our usual sort of Saturday Night but as you know we were invited this year as it was in aid of Caring Matters Now. The event was at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel and those invited to…

Fundraiser name: Dave Details of fundraising event: Georgia is just under two years old and was born with a large brown birthmark on her body, known as Congenital Melanocytic Naevus. It is similar to a mole but covers a much larger percentage of her body capacity and doctors say it can lead to complications such…

This has been the third year of entering Tough Mudder. However, I challenged myself to two in September; ‘Tough Mudder North West’ on the 12th Sept and the second ‘Tough Mudder London South’ on 27th Sept. The event is a 12 mile obstacle assault course which tests your physical and emotional strengths over a series…

When Yasmin started nursery at age 3 in 2013, I provided her Key worker with the information booklet I had downloaded from the Caring Matters Now website. I spoke about things that they should look out for, how they could support her and the complications that could arise as a result of CMN. Her teacher…

UPDATE – Our 3 CMN Dads did it!!!!! So, on the 20th September 2015, three incredible dads of children with CMN, reached the summit after a gruelling 9 days of trekking and a final 8 hours of glacier climb with crampons & ropes. These guys are incredible! This was a gruelling challenge, mentally and physically…

As this was our 2nd Coffee and Cake event, we were slightly more organized! We gathered a small team of family and friends to help out on the day with tombola, raffle, puppet show and bouncy castle, as well as a fun disco and face painting donated by Starz Party. We used our local church,…

On June 6th 2015 with the help of family & friends, we decided to organise our 2nd Fundraising fun day. We had such a brilliant time last year we received such amazing support and raised a fantastic £1700. We also managed to raise awareness through local media by having the support of Nottingham Evening Post…

Our family were all away the weekend that Caring Matters Now had their official coffee morning, so we did ours a bit late! As a family we’ve been keen to raise more funds and more awareness, and as we enjoy opening our home up for friends and family we thought a coffee morning was the…

To Caring Matters Now My name is Ava, I’m 10 years old. My friend Megan and I did a sponsored silence to raise money for you. The reason we did this was because my brother, Harrison is affected by Congenital Melanocytic Nevi. We managed to raise £170.20 by doing the sponsored silence from midnight until…

The Belfast City Marathon is Northern Ireland’s largest sporting event with 17,500 people taking part every year. The race day includes a fun run a full marathon, an 8 mile walk and a wheel chair race, but it was the relay event that caught our attention. Over the years myself, Adam and many of our…

My granddaughter Lois who is 5 years old was born with CMN so we have a very personal reason to raise money for the charity. On Saturday 18th April we held a charity night for CMN in Gilroyd social club. This is our third event of this type. We previously raised over £2500 with the…

Dronfield is the small town where we grew up and they have held a 10k for the past 22 years! This year myself and Alex decided to challenge ourselves to run the tough 6.2mile route for Caring Matters Now. We both completed the course in exactly the same time of 1:03:56. Alex ran the course…

2014 has been an epic year for fundraising and we would like to say a massive thank you to you all for doing your bit! But we must not rest on our laurels! We have seen an increase in corporate support, schools fundraising and so many more individuals getting involved in one way or another.…

Recruitment for this post will commence shortly and we hope to have news of the newly appointed member of the CMN Research team in the July newsletter. This has been achieved through many different activities such as the CMN Dinner Dance, a very successful marathon run which raised over £10,000 and all of you taking…

I first took up running 5 years ago at the age of 55. I was watching the Great north run on TV and thought I would have a go, so sent off an application and a few months later I had an acceptance! So, thought I best start training having never run 100 yards since…

On 7th September 2014 Amy organised a Big Charity Family Fun Day in Sheffield. At the Charity Fun Day there was bouncy castles, face painting, balloons, fairground rides, stalls, Olaf, Minion and Doc McStuffin mascots, not to mention a BBQ, Bar and Zumba! The Big Charity Family Fun Day raised a grand total of £541.33!

“CMN is obviously a very special charity to me and I got together with my friend, Sam who also is a keen fundraiser for The UK Sepsis Trust and CLAPA charities (These two charities mean a lot to her as she nearly lost her life to Sepsis and her eldest daughter was born with a…

When I set out to raise a few pounds for Caring Matters Now with a cycling holiday in the Alps, I didn’t know what to expect. Yes, I knew it would be very hard and yes, I knew that the climbing would be long and sustained, but I hadn’t realised how spectacular the alpine scenery…

Why I took part in the ‘Caring Matters Now Coffee & Cake Morning’ By Tanith When my daughter Isabelle was born in 2009, she had a large brown birthmark on her leg. The doctor came to see us the following day and explained that it would have to be removed due to the increased risk…

Cori aged 10 had the idea for everyone to make a donation to have a guess on the gender and weight of his mums bump. He managed to raise £300 in donations when his baby sister was born and was able to raise awareness about CMN. He also put a donation box and leaflets around…

Lily-Mai (Year 2) would like to thank all the children, parents and staff of St Marys School, Shackleford who contributed generously in the recent “small change amnesty” organised by Lily-Mai who has CMN. In total, the contributions amounted to a total of £32.08 which is fantastic. Combined with other collections from family, friends and colleagues…

I work for DWP in a large office in the city centre of Norwich. I am part of a small group called Kulture klub, who organise monthly events for the office that has a work force of approx 250. Every month we have a different charity or cause that have been chosen or suggested by…

We held an online auction to sell a signed and framed Sheffield FC first team football shirt that had been signed by England international Chelsea footballer, Gary Cahill. Sheffield FC, founded in 1857, is the World’s oldest football club and is accredited as such by FIFA. Sheffield plays its home games at the Coach and…

Cake Bake Sale (All Years) and Business Enterprise Event (Year 6). On 6th December 2013, Blackheath High School (Juniors) held a Cake Bake sale for all years and year 6 were divided into groups and each group was given £10 for materials. From the materials they bought, they made keyrings, jewellry and note books to…

The whole school community of St. Mary’s.  The children are aged 4-11 years. St. Mary’s P. S. Draperstown raise money with a Christmas Charity Appeal every year, during the month of December.  We like to select a charity that is local or one that has close connections with a member of our school community.  This…

Thank you to Cross Country for raising £1000 towards the work of CMN! Cross Country were introduced to Caring Matters Now by Malcolm, whose daughter has CMN. They raised the £1,000 by dress down Friday, a giant money raffle and selling homemade smoothies to staff. A massive thank you to everyone who dug deep and…

Finlay and his cousin Dexter ran the Sheffield 1.5km Mini Great Yorkshire Run. ‘We did it because we love Max’. Max is Finlay’s little brother who has CMN. ‘We wanted to raise some pennies and awareness for Caring Matters Now because Max has CMN. We ran the whole way round with our dads and raised…

I got together with some of my school friends and told them about CMN. So we all decided what to do to fundraise and we decided on a cake stall! We spoke with the head teacher and he was happy with it. We made letters and posters for every class and I told my friends…

I went with mum and dad, some of the mums from school, my friends from school, my uncle and my big cousin Jordan to Cambridge United Football Club and we collected money in buckets for the charity. It was very cold and hard work but we raised £204.70. We also got to watch some of…

By Louise (mother of Charlotte, age 2 yrs) As fliers were distributed to family, friends, neighbours and school book bags, I began to worry my love of quiz nights was not shared by the masses. But during the weeks that followed, there was a steady stream of requests for tickets and more often than not,…

To all the great team at Caring Matters Now, Well as you can see from the photos we finally did it, Harvey’s hair has been cut short. It’s something we always said we would do just before he started school.  May 25th was quite an emotional day for us as a family as Harvey has…

Yes, you read the title correctly… Caring Matters Now is planning to conquer 7 challenges on 7 continents!  Since 2011 we have been conquering 7 challenges on 7 continents and here is what we have achieved to date… AFRICA – 2011 Mount Kilimanjaro Summit Total raised: £74,342 Read more about this challenge here EUROPE –…

A sponsored Silence £1000 raised for CMN – by NOT speaking for 24 hours This challenge may sound easy for many, how difficult can it be? But for an experienced sales person not speaking is like asking an accountant to not use a spreadsheet or painter not to use a brush. Paul loves his Rugby…

We first heard about Caring Matters Now through the interview that Jodie Unsworth & Dr. Kinsler did on This Morning and since watching the program we have been in contact with the charity & they have really helped us by showing us that we are not the only ones in a sometimes difficult situation. It…

Hi to you all, I am Amy’s Granny Sue and chair of our local University of the Third Age here in Bridlington. Our U3A band, the U3Mix, with the help of a local pub, organised a Party Night for Amy to raise funds for CMN. Quite by chance we learned that the grandson of the…