Akky’s Story
Akky with girlfriend Jen 22 year old Akky from Oldham was recently referred to Young Heroes, through his social worker at Christies Hospital in Manchester. Since his diagnosis back in 2008, Akky has...
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Newsletter October 2009
Introduction Welcome to this spooktacular edition of the makeabigdifference newsletter. The one-stop-shop for all the charities’ news and events. We did it! Yes myself, Nicola and Steven did our...
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Newsletter November 2009
Introduction Welcome to the November edition of the Young Heroes newsletter. With less than 5 weeks to go until Christmas, we understand that your Christmas shopping will be well and truly underway and...
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Newsletter December 2009
Welcome to the very Christmasy December newsletter. So, here we are at the end of 2009. It only seems like a couple of months ago when I was putting together the Christmas Newsletter for 2008. It...
View ArticleDan’s Story
At 16, Dan Hewitt was at a time in his life when he should have been going out with friends, playing sports, thinking of future careers, college, instead he lay hooked up to a machine undergoing...
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Katie’s Story
23 year old Katie Brooman had to face the grim reality of Cancer when at just 21 she was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Like any other teenager, Katie was interested in fashion,...
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Kerry’s Story
19 year old Kerry is a beautiful and inspiring young woman, who at just 14 years old was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL), a fast growing cancer of the white blood cells which...
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Kim’s Story
Kim Leeming lost her mother to the Von Hippel-Lindau condition (abbreviated VHL) when she was only 3 years old. At the time there wasn’t much information and not very many cases when her mother was...
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Adam Barrett’s Story
“When I was first diagnosed, with youth on my side and an excellent prognosis, I had surprisingly few worries about the 6 cycles of chemo and the week of radiotherapy, which looked likely to be all I...
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Young Hero gets his big break
Mohammed Rahman (Akky as he is known to many) recently returned from his respite break in Lanzarote where he was accompanied by best friend Suhiol. The 22 year old from Oldham was left disappointed...
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