About Skcin THE KAREN CLIFFORD SKIN CANCER CHARITY
Karen Clifford passed away on New Year's Eve 2005 after a courageous battle against skin Cancer. Since the disease was diagnosed, her family were dismayed to discover that while a few specialist organisations existed, there were in fact no specific all encompassing organisations with national aspirations.
Whilst recognising the existence of the excellent annual Cancer Research UK "Sunsmart" campaign and the work undertaken by other skin cancer organisations in other parts of the UK, we firmly believe that skin cancer requires a continuous onging national campaign resulting in a significantly higher profile for the disease targetting all age groups at home and abroad at work and at play.
Together with medical professionals at the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, the family and friends have set out to establish what is hoped to be the first high profile charitable organisation targeting this specific form of cancer in the UK. The principle objective of the charity is to ensure that the danger of over-exposure to the sun is given greater profile with the emphasis on education resulting in the vital early detection of the disease.
Registered Charity 1116440
As campaigners for regulation on sunbed use for under 18's Skcin are delighted that the bill to regulate sunbed use has passed its latest parliamentary hurdle....
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In October 2009 the team of Intrepid Nottingham adventurers successfully reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in less than 5 days to raise funds for Skcin; The Karen Clifford Skin Cancer Charity....
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The CEBD (Centre of Evidence Based Dermatology) part of The University of Nottingham are looking for people who've been affected by skin cancer....
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Skcin co-founder and Trustee, Richard Clifford represented the charity at the recent LIVESTRONG Global Cancer Summit in Dublin held in August this year....
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Three members of the SKCIN Management Committee, GIll Godsell, Anthony Hubbard and Richard Clifford attended the British Association of Dermatology Conference in Glasgow in July....
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McCann Erickson attended the Cannes Adertising festival having entered the computertan.com campaign into various categories, one of which was the Promo category for which the London agency won two Bronze Lions!...
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Sun Exposure!
Skcin and Britain's most read red-top have aptly joined forces on a crusade to raise awareness on the the dangers of over-exposre to UV. Skcin have featured and commented on many articles and readers are directed to the skcin website for further information in the majority of related releases...
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Skin Awareness Week in East Anglia
Skcin recently launched a regional skin awareness initiative which took place across Norfolk and Suffolk campaigning to help people become skin aware, as well as sun smart...
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FUCHS FOUNDATION ANTARCTIC EXPIDITION 2010
Roussel 'Capra' De Carvalho a teacher of Physics at Samuel Ward Arts & Technology College met with Skcin when he was recently selected to take part in the prestigious Fuchs Foundation's Antarctic Expedition 2010...
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