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Gala Dinner

6 January 2024

A sparkling drinks reception, delicious 3 course meal, auction and dancing under the disco lights are all part of this fabulous night. Held at the Hilton in Reading, this event is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the new year with family and friends, thank your colleagues for a year of hard work or entertain your clients.



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Charity Golf Day

11 May 2023

Thank you to all the golfing teams for supporting our annual golf day and helping to raise over £7000. The day was a huge success and a special thanks to all our supporters, volunteers, auction and raffle sponsors. Thanks also to Mill Ride Golf Club, Ascot for hosting the day and giving us good weather. Congratulations to all our winners. We hope all the teams had a great day and look forward to seeing you all again next year!

3rd Annual Bike Ride

21 May 2023

Thank you to everyone involved in our cycle charity fundraiser. We took in some lovely countryside, kept fit and raised enough funds to deliver 65 complementary therapies to people with cancer.
Thanks to our Sponsors
 Rotary Club of Reading MatinsAW Cycles and Voke Interiors,
Thanks also to our other heroes of the day, the participants, marshals and wonderful Volunteers. Hope to see you all back next year!

Fabulous Fashion Show!

September 2022

John Lewis Reading hosted this wonderful event again giving 10 people, who have been through a diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the chance to strut their stuff on the catwalk.  Their courage and enthusiasm was inspiring and made it another unforgettable evening.  You can still support our wonderful models below: 

Reading Rotary Matins Bike Ride

June 2022

We loved seeing so many adults and kids enjoying our 2nd annual bike ride on Sunday 12th June.  Thanks to our enthusiastic cyclists, and everyone who sponsored them, we raised over £3000! Thanks to everyone who helped us run the event too, we couldn’t have done it without you.  We are already planning a bigger and better event for next year so register your interest below:

Art Exhibition in aid of two charities

May 2022

Local artist, Chris Boulton, who was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer in November 2020, held another exhibition and raising funds for My Cancer My Choices and The Pelican Cancer Foundation on 21st & 22nd May 2022. We are hugely grateful for the  £1300 he raised and really appreciate the ongoing support from Chris. 

New Year Gala Dinner
7 January 2023

We had an amazing gala evening on January 4th 2020.  Many many thanks to Philip Voke for hosting this wonderful event and his support team, Paul Hayes for all his time and great auctioneering, to the lovely Tara for sharing her story and everyone who supported the evening in every way – we raised an the incredible sum of over £20k!

Bike Ride
May 2019

On the 19th May 2019 Reading Matins Rotary Charity and My Cancer My Choices  hosted a Charity Fun Bike Ride to raise funds for My Cancer My Choices.

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Rotary
Sleigh Ride

A huge thank you to the people of Goring for their generosity, and Lestyn and Pangbourne Rotary Club for our Santa sleigh ride around Goring.

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Support
from Ascot

Members of our fundraising team and trustees went to Ascot’s beautiful racecourse and came away winners after great support from the racegoers.

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Maidenhead Boundary Walk

A huge thank you to Freddy, Barney and Reg for bringing their owners Sarah, Regina, Richard, Pam and Simon to walk the boundary for My Cancer My Choices.

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Quiz
Night

Getting the old grey cells working really paid off at this fun quiz in Ascot’s Cheapside Village Hall

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An evening with Carol Kirkwood

Carol kindly joined us for the evening to talk about her work on the BBC and Strictly Come Dancing.

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Firewalk with
Bigger Brighter Bolder

The Mindset Mechanics, George Swift and Tracey Miller of Bigger Brighter Bolder (BBB), have supported us from the start. Here we are at the firewalk they organised in November 2017.

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