Events
10th Anniversary Gala Dinner
4 January 2025
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Annual Charity Fashion Show
7 September 2024
We’re still riding high on the buzz and pure emotion from our incredible fashion show!
A huge thank you to the amazing team at John Lewis & Partners Reading, who hosted us for the 4th time and made sure our models felt like absolute stars. Your generosity and kindness blew us away once again!
Annual Charity Golf Day
9 May 2024
Thank you to everyone for supporting our annual charity golf day and helping to raise around £7 300. It was truly a wonderful day, combined with spectacular weather, and we are immensely grateful for your participation and generosity in making it such a success. We want to express our sincere appreciation to all our players, donors, sponsors and supporters. Congratulations to all our golf winners and auction winners and special thanks to Mill Ride Golf Course for hosting the day.
We look forward to seeing you all again in May 2025!
All photos from the event can be found here.
Gala Dinner
6 January 2024
Thank you to everyone for supporting our annual charity gala dinner and helping to raise around £27 000. The evening was a huge success and a special thanks to all our supporters, volunteers, donors & sponsors. Thanks also to The Hilton, Reading for hosting the evening. Congratulations to all our auction winners. We hope you all had a great evening and look forward to seeing you all again next year!
All photos from the event can be found here.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quiz
Night
Getting the old grey cells working really paid off at this fun quiz in Ascot’s Cheapside Village Hall
An evening with Carol Kirkwood
Carol kindly joined us for the evening to talk about her work on the BBC and Strictly Come Dancing.
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.