David Walsh
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first heard Feb 2024
last heard 7 Jul
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And we get huge support from the business community.
So we started fundraising only two years ago, the last two years, and we've raised over 600,000, predominantly through the EY Entrepreneur of the Year alumni group that's
over 600 entrepreneurs that have really got behind it.
We had a wonderful event in the Cade Club last Tuesday, a golf classic followed by a gala dinner.
And it wasn't a lament, it was a celebration of the life of an extraordinary woman.
And people gave generously and we cleared over 300,000 last Tuesday in one event.
Yeah, but we're looking at we're looking at other events as well outside of a golf classic that we can do.
I heard somebody saying years ago that if you can have the imagination of the wild imagination of entrepreneurs with the discipline of people who make things happen, come together.
And that's what we've done with the charity.
Expand those around Ireland so that somebody in Kerry, somebody in Clare, somebody wherever would have the same access to checkups in between treatments going to Dublin.
That's one thing we are going to invest heavily.
One of the challenges, and Mark probably could answer this better, with the very rare cancers we're speaking about is, from a research perspective, is the bank of tissue to work on.
So we set up with Mark the first sarcoma biobank in St Vincent's Hospital, and we're funding that through the charity as well, so that researchers all over Europe can have access to tissue if they want to do some research on leiomyosarcoma or other sarcomas.
That's been a huge part of this progress in terms of where we were going to spend our funds, because we wanted some sort of governing body above it to make sure everything was right.
We have a very strong governance board ourselves in the foundation.
But in order to, we didn't know what we didn't know, if you know what I mean, in terms of how you could spend the money.
But so to team up with Cancer Trials Ireland and Angela and the team there has been hugely important in terms of where we focus, where we spend the money.
There are so many places you could spend it.
But I think the projects that we have in terms of building awareness and the research and the biobank and the outreach centres is tangible benefits that will have a huge impact on those people who are presently suffering.
Very much so.
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