Solihull Moors have announced that their home game against Forest Green Rovers on September 7th will see the club team up with Cure Leukaemia to raise funds and awareness for a fantastic cause.

September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month and on the day the ground will be renamed the Cure Leukaemia Stadium and 10% of every ticket bought for the National League game will be donated to the charity.

40,000 people are diagnosed with Blood Cancer every year.  That means that right now six people will be diagnosed during the 90 mins of every game of football you watch game.

Cure Leukaemia want to make those numbers a thing of the past. The charity was established in 2003 to allow patients with blood cancer in the Birmingham region to access remarkably effective new treatments which were then becoming available. Leukaemia can affect anyone: co founder Prof Charlie Craddock CBE has saved the lives of footballers Geoff Thomas and Stiliyan Petrov

Cure Leukaemia is now a national blood cancer charity which funds the Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP) which consists of specialist research nurses in 15 of the UK’s biggest cities. TAP enables the rapid setup, recruitment to and delivery of blood cancer clinical trials giving patients from a UK catchment area of over 30 million people access to potentially lifesaving treatments not currently available through standard care.

Moors Chairman Darryl Eales will go the extra mile for the charity by running the London Marathon in April on their behalf.

“It’s a wonderful charity with extraordinary people doing so much to try and help fight an illness that can affect anyone, at any age.  We know our fans will donate and help at the Forest Green game and then if I can get round 26 miles to raise further awareness later in the season then I’m more than happy to do so.” 

The Cure Leukaemia game is part of National Blood Cancer Awareness Month and Cure Leukaemia Chief Executive James McLaughlin will be running a remarkable 224 miles across 16 locations where the charity provides funding for Run The Nations 2024. James will run an average of 14 miles in each location to signify that every 14 minutes, someone in the UK is diagnosed with a form of blood cancer.

The aim is to raise £100,000, which would fund the equivalent of two Cure Leukaemia Research Nurses, while also supporting the fight for 250,000 people living with blood cancer across the UK.

 James said:

 “With our office being based at the Moors for the last couple of years we have been made to feel extremely welcome by Darryl and everyone at the club and we are immensely proud to be part of the club both on and off the field.  

“Thanks to Gary Fox at V Installations, Cure Leukaemia is seen on the players’ kits across the country and for the club to rename the ground to The Cure Leukaemia Stadium for the Forest Green fixture and to be so generous in donating proceeds from ticket sales, will without doubt make a difference for blood cancer patients in Birmingham and across the West Midlands”. 

Donate: Contributions can be made through the official Run The Nations 2024 Just Giving page.

Join the Run: Lace up your trainers and join James on one or more legs of Run The Nations where you can tackle the full day’s route or a 5km loop.

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For more information about Run The Nations 2024: www.cureleukaemia.co.uk/events/run-the-nations