Bake a Difference
Get Baking for Breast Cancer this October
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month so there's no better time to support vital services by holding a bake sale or coffee morning.
Get together with your family or friends to see who's the best baker and no matter who wins you'll be helping women across Ireland affected by breast cancer.
How to get started
1. Choose What to Do
By yourself or as part of a team decide how you'd like to fundrasie.
It could be a bake off, a coffee morning, or something completely different!
2. Set a Target
Now you know what you want to do – set yourself a target and set up your fundraising page by cliking Start Fundrasing below and filling in your details.
3. Tell Everyone!
Get the word out Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Make sure to let people know about your event and get your friends and family to share the word too.
"I felt very much alone and sort of untethered"
Bridget is a mother to a grown up daughter, and a grandmother to a grandson that she describes as “the love of her life”.
In 2021 Bridget went to her GP after she discovered a lump in her breast, her GP referred to her local hospital where it was discovered she had metastatic breast cancer
1 in 9 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. Your support allows us to provide free community awareness programs, financial aid, and support services for people like Bridget.
“It feels like when you’re out at sea and you sail out just that little bit too far. I felt very much alone and sort of untethered. At times it felt like no one properly understood the daily struggles I was facing.”
One afternoon while browsing the web Bridget discovered our Hidden Cost of Cancer survey, asking for late-stage cancer patients to give their experience of the financial impact their cancer diagnosis has had on their lives. “As I was answering the questions, it finally felt like someone finally understood the issues I was facing and were actually tackling the topics that a lot of people ignore."
"I then found out about the Marie Keating Foundations Positive Living group, I contacted them and was put into the next available group and I haven’t looked back.”
The Positive Living Group hosts monthly meetings for men and women living with cancer and is free to attend.
The aim of the programme is to help participants reach an improved quality of life. The programme provides specialised support and connects them with both experts and other people affected by similar circumstances. Through the programme, participants will be able to look ahead and plan.
The Positive Living Group along with all of our services are only possible thanks to the generous support of the public.
This study is a composite story based on real people and cases that we deal with every day, however we have changed some details to protect identities and privacy.
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All our services are only possible with the generosity of the Irish public, so please consider making a donation today.
We are committed to being there for people diagnosed with cancer, and their families at every step of this cancer journey, and your donation will ensure that happens.
