UPDATE - Issue 04 - November 1999
Latest Research Funding Score!
Ted Clucas 42 : Government 47
Ted
Clucas was so disgusted with the Government's contribution towards research
into prostate cancer he had contracted that he decided to raise personally
the equivalent sum by himself. As readers of Update will know, the
Government's spend on Prostate Cancer research in 1997/98 was just £47,000,
eighty eight times less than the sum spent on breast cancer. It was
this target that Ted set himself early this summer after he had completed
a course of radiotherapy.
Ted Clucas, 58, was born in Lancashire and raised in Yorkshire, to which he attributes much of his stubborn determination to succeed in what he undertakes. He has been a runner all his life, used to play rugby football and still goes skiing every year. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and Founder/ Chairman of the Herald Trust Group. He, therefore, decided to play to his strengths when it came to raising money for his chosen charity, by obtaining sponsorship, much of it from his wealthy business contacts in Jersey where he now lives, for running in a number of half marathons.
On October 20, at the Prostate Research Campaign UK's annual luncheon at the London Hilton, he presented a cheque to the charity for the money he had raised to date, the magnificent sum of £42,000. When others at the gathering heard his story, a further £5,000 was instantly donated to bring the total up to £47,000.