Medicash and The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation...celebrate the £50 Challenge success!

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation recently celebrated the success of their first £50 Challenge which raised over £5,000 for the charity.

Sponsored by Medicash, donations of £50 were given to 15 Merseyside organisations who were set the challenge of generating as much money as possible from it. Businesses rose to the fundraising challenge and organised a range of activities including a salsa night, a Wii sports day, cake sales and staff tuck shop with homemade smoothies.

Sue Weir, chief executive of Medicash said: "We are delighted to support the £50 Challenge and all the organisations involved came up with some great ideas to raise much needed funds for The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation."

An awards night took place for all the fundraisers with Dee Roberts from the University of Liverpool winning Best Individual Fundraiser and King Sturge taking the award for Best Fundraising Team.

Alyson Wort from the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation said: "The various fundraising activities of our challengers are a perfect example of how fundraising encourages teamwork and can also be fun. We are very grateful to Medicash for sponsoring the £50 Challenge and for all the other businesses who have taken part in raising money which will help us in our fight against lung cancer."

The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation works to defeat lung cancer in the UK, and the £50 Challenge sponsored by Medicash will help fund the charity's research into the disease, educational campaigns and patient support services offered to those affected by lung cancer.