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Firefly Cancer Awareness and Support

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We want to fuel and maintain a vehicle to take service users and family members to our respite lodge throughout the year.

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About this cause

We provide a local door to door shuttle service taking patients and family members to Sheffield treatment centres, free of charge, for life saving cancer treatments. We now have 7 vehicles to keep on the road and on average take 35 - 45 people per day varying from the young to the elderly. We are staffed purely by volunteers and every single penny raised goes back into keeping the vehicles on the road . We also have a Firefly Lodge on the East coast for cancer patients to use for much needed respite and family time. We rely wholly on donations and fundraising to be able to offer these services. We are so much more than transport, we are a family who offer friendship, support & ease the worry in one of the scariest & sickest times of their lives. The service users are our biggest advocates.

How this cause brings people in the community together

It goes a long way to enabling trips for people who are off work through sickness & don't have the money to have a break away with their families. This is important as sometimes this is the last holiday they may have as a family, particularly in the terminally ill. The lodge is a haven for people who have undergone gruelling treatment & once completed need time to recuperate with their loved ones