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A fantastic and successful day for the IST Charity Karting Challenge raises thousands to help transform the lives of young people with cancer in the South West.

Valley Fest, the homegrown music, food and drink festival, are still recruiting volunteers for this summer.

Following their Awareness Day on 28 June, the Coventry Building Society in Keynsham presented Teenage Cancer Trust with a cheque from their fantastic fundraising efforts.

Motorsport commentator Ian Sowman and Luke Cooper from Drive-Tech LTD, Chippenham are organising the IST Charity Karting Challenge event to raise money for young people with cancer in the South West.

Thanks to Glastonbury's luxurious off-site camping company, Camp Kerala, some of our young people from Bristol’s Haematology and Oncology unit got a tour of Glastonbury's festival site a few days before the gates opened.

Friends and family of Fraser Peebles, who was diagnosed with Leukaemia last year, donned their wigs and moustaches last month to celebrate his 18th birthday.

For the second year running, O2 Academy Bristol presents "BEAT IT"; a night of brilliant live music in aid of two cancer charities, Teenage Cancer Trust and Penny Brohn UK.

A massive fundraising effort by Weston College students has resulted in a £7,000 donation split between Teenage Cancer Trust and Weston Hospicecare.

Since being given the all-clear from papillary thyroid cancer, Bryony Bateman from Bristol is running the Great Bristol 10K on 7 May for Teenage Cancer Trust, to raise money for other young cancer patients in the South West.