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How to Fund a Cancer Unit
I raised a million pound for older Hay back in the 90s. There were raised thrims and 60,000 for them but then that sort of started a chain reaction. I ended up walking across. Why was that? Did you have a personal connection? No I just got introduced to it and I saw some of the young kiddies who just gone through chemo and lost their hair...it completely got to me. So I gave up my salary and bonuses in the 1990s and put everything I earned into trying to fund this oncology unit. We've just been given some 10 million pound of match funding from the government. It means we can put an extra 20 million