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Yes, that’s right! We are looking for a manager for our Yorkshire based Cancer Charity.
Could this be the next role you’re looking for?
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Dr Stewart Manning joins the Ella Dawson Foundation
Our chairman Dr Stewart Manning has become a new ambassador for the Ella Dawson Foundation, a charity dedicated to helping young adults with a cancer diagnosis. Here’s what Stewart had to say about his new role.
I am a retired General Practitioner, having worked in South Leeds for most of my career. During that time, I also served as Medical Officer to Leeds United AFC from 1978 to 1990 and delivered Occupational Health Services to a variety of West Yorkshire businesses.
Although I retired in 2012, I badly missed contact with people. This led me to continue being involved in community and health-related work. I was an Ambassador for The Robert Sinclair Davidson Foundation for four years before becoming a Trustee and Chairman of a local charity, The Yorkshire Cancer Community. Through this role, I help deliver a programme called CANCER SMART, which educates people about cancer screening, healthy living, and the importance of knowing your own body.
Cancer has affected me deeply throughout my life – through family, friends, and many of my patients. Because of this, I also volunteer and fundraise for my local hospice in Leeds, St Gemma’s, and support the work of Macmillan and Pancreatic Cancer UK.
Yorkshire Cancer Community is funded by the Harrogate and West Yorkshire Cancer Alliance. It was during a Teams meeting that I first met Tasha Dawson, who is a lay member of the Board. After the meeting, I looked up the Ella Dawson Foundation, of which Tasha is a founder and Trustee. I was so impressed by their work helping young adults aged 18 to 30 with cancer that I contacted them straight away to arrange a meeting.
In February this year, I volunteered at their Ball. When I met up again with Tasha and Jane, they invited me to work with the Ella Dawson Foundation as an Ambassador. I accepted immediately, as the help given by this charity resonates with the difficulties I faced as a GP looking after a young man with cancer 25 years ago – when there were no organisations offering holistic support to this age group.
I feel I can bring my enthusiasm and experience to this charity.
My ethos is:
“One person cannot change the world, but anyone can change the world for one person.”
Relaunch of Community Patient Panel
On 26 September 2024 we relaunched the Community Patient Panel.
Our local cancer services benefit greatly from the knowledge and experience of patients, caregivers, and members of the public.
You can get involved with the panel in a variety of ways with us.
We are working with West Yorkshire and Harrogate Cancer Alliance (WYHCA) to make improvements, develop new ideas and ensure the patient VIEW is at the heart of everything we do.
The community panel is just one of the ways in which WYHCA is working with those affected by cancer across the area – patients and their families and carers – to ensure their experiences and views influence the Alliance work and the decisions they take. Panel members are involved through face to face sessions; online discussions, sharing views and ideas by email; one to one telephone calls and flexibly in other ways that work best for them. Tackling health inequality across West Yorkshire and Harrogate (the avoidable differences that exist in people’s health and treatment outcomes between different groups and communities) is a high priority for the Cancer Alliance and for the Yorkshire Cancer Community. To support us in this work, we want to ensure the membership of the panel is as diverse as possible, in terms of where people live; the type(s) of cancer they are experiencing or have experienced, the communities they come from and their personal backgrounds and circumstances. If you would like to join the panel, or learn more, email lauren@yorkshirecancercommunity.co.uk
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