The 14-mile walk from Chelsea to Sutton is now full and registration for this has closed.

However, there are still places available for the family-friendly 5-mile walk. This follows the last five miles of the main route, from King George Playing Fields in Raynes Park to The Royal Marsden in Sutton. This route is particularly suited to anyone walking with young children or older team members, or for those that would prefer a less strenuous walk.

Registration for the 5-mile walk will close at 12 noon on Friday 3 February or earlier if places are filled before then. So register now to secure your place and be part of this memorable day. All funds raised support The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.

Reigate Grammar School has been running all sorts of fundraising activities. They sold Royal Marsden Cancer Charity products at the school's Christmas prodcution of The Producers (pictured), baked and decorated gingerbread men to sell to pupils and staff, and some teachers grew moustaches during Movember.

Amy Bulled, who works at Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppe in Crawley, has raised a mouth-watering £263 with just a giant Toblerone. Customers at the shop bought raffle tickets in an attempt to win the chocolate bar which is nearly a metre long and weighs 4.5kg. The money has been given to the JustGiving page in memory of James Aldis.

Homefield School in Sutton has supported The Royal Marsden for many years. In September the Homefield Superstars after-school club's theme was witches and wizards and the boys wanted to make some real potions and spells.

Sue Moylan who runs the club tells us, "We found the 'wish well, wish often' spell and we decided to dedicate it to the children in The Royal Marsden. We lit a candle daily, recited the spell and made special wishes for others, but not ourselves. When the parents came to pick the boys up we asked them to put their spare change into our spell tin. The boys were so enthusiastic about doing this, and so eager to help weave a little magic to help those less fortunate than ourselves. I am so proud of my superstars."

On 25 October 2011, Terry Ingle of Skelmersdale Masonic Lodge No.1599 and Mike Shelley and Mary Nudds of the Stevenage Leisure 50 Walking Club and the North and East Hertfordshire Ramblers walked 30km (18.6 miles) for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.

The Walk started at Welwyn Garden City fountain and passed through many Hertfordshire villages on the way to Letchworth Garden City fountain. Supporting the three walkers was Ken Smith who had donations from family and friends.

Between them they raised a total of £1,086.

It’s been a fantastic year for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. Thanks to our supporters:

• we installed the ground-breaking CyberKnife radiotherapy machine which started treating patients in July
• The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge opened the Oak Centre for Children and Young People in September
• building work continues on the new Centre for Molecular Pathology, which is on track to open by the end of 2012.

These new facilities will make a huge difference to the 40,000+ patients treated at The Royal Marsden each year, and none of this would have been possible without your support. Thank you.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year from everyone at The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.

A team of seven from RBS Resourcing took part in a run on Sunday 27 November, rasing an impressive £3,000.

The runners were Chris Oglethorpe, Peter Moffat, Mike Maddick, Jim Richardson and Christine MacKenzie (left to right in the photo above), and Victoria Gale and Alex Shepherd (not pictured).

Progress on new Centre for Molecular Pathology in Sutton has reached a major milestone with a topping out ceremony this week.

Professors Stephen Johnston and Stan Kaye of The Royal Marsden and The Institute for Cancer Research tapped in the final block at the highest level of the building to complete its frame.
Read more at www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk

Every year at The Royal Marsden we place thousands of stars on our Christmas trees – each one remembering and celebrating the life of a loved one.  If you would like to dedicate a star in honour of a person who is special to you, you have until Friday 2 December to place your order. You can:

• use our online form
• call 020 7808 2259
• download and post this form (PDF).

The name of your loved one will be written on a star and hung on your chosen tree for all to see.  We will also send you a special gold lapel badge as a mark of our thanks for supporting us this Christmas.

We will make every effort to list all names in the Order of Service but we cannot guarantee that names received after 2 December 2011 will be included.
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Lower Sixth students from Salesian College in Farnborough, led by Joe Byrne and Will Debenham, walked 20 miles to raise money for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity in memory of Alex Bolt. 

It was a great day, with many students, family and friends of the College walking together around the sports field. The walk began bright and early at 8.30am and everyone was across the finish line by 3.40pm.

Poppy Jacobs, a pupil at Rupert House School in Henley, organised a cake sale to raise money. She baked all week and other children donated home-made cakes which she sold at break time and after school, raising £240.

Poppy has now raised more than £350 selling cakes and taking part in a sponsored run. Her uncle was treated at The Royal Marsden for leukaemia.

HRH The Duchess of Cambridge has written a personal letter of support to Fabinan Bate, a patient of The Royal Marsden, after he met the Duke and Duchess on a visit to the hospital.

The Duchess met Fabian, aged 9, and other patients when she and her husband officially opened the new £18 million Oak Centre for Children and Young People last month.

The Marsden March, our annual sponsored walk between The Royal Marsden’s hospitals in Chelsea and Sutton, takes place on Sunday 11 March 2012.

Registration is now open at www.royalmarsden.org/march.

Following the fantastic success of The Marsden March in 2011 we have doubled the number of places available. There are now 3,000 places on the full 14-mile walk and 1,000 places on the shorter 5-mile walk.

Please join us for what promises to be a great day. Last year we raised a fantastic £824,000 with just 2,000 walkers – can you help us to make this our first £1 million event?
Find out more about The Marsden March

The new Oak Centre for Children and Young People at The Royal Marsden's hospital in Sutton was officially opened by TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. HRH The Duke of Cambridge has been the President of The Royal Marsden since May 2007.

Hundreds of people, including staff, patients, and the local community, waited to catch a glimpse of the royal couple. Upon arrival, they were greeted by The Royal Marsden’s Chief Executive Cally Palmer and Chairman Ian Molson.
Read more at www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk

House of Fraser has raised nearly £700,000 for The Royal Marsden’s Oak Centre for Children and Young People.

The money was raised via a number of nationwide awareness and fundraising initiatives, including staff competitions and a percentage donation from customer gift cards.
Read more at www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk

CyberKnife, the very latest in radiotherapy technology, is now installed and up and running at The Royal Marsden.

The hospital is one of the first London NHS Trusts to install the latest model of CyberKnife, which became operational and began treating the first patients last week.
Read more at www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk

St Martin’s Primary School in Dorking raised over £2,000 with a sponsored obstacle race. Class KS1 (about 100 children aged 4 to 7) had ten minutes to complete the course as many times as they could.

The school also organised a bingo night and a swimathon, and teacher Hannah Woollard took part in the London Marathon in April 2011.

At the end of the summer term, they presented us with a cheque for £6,508.01.

Pupils, staff and friends of Brynteg Comprehensive School raised £1,500 by forming a 250m trail of socks in a ‘Sockathon’ held on Monday 11 July. Olympic gold medal winning cyclist and former Brynteg pupil Nicole Cooke donated socks for the event, as did fellow former pupil Kevin Ellis and Garw rugby hero John Devereux.

The event was inspired by the school librarian’s granddaughter Bethan Vacher, aged nearly two, who was diagnosed with leukaemia last August.

It's been all quiet on the Year 8 front as pupils at Warlingham School took part in a sponsored silence for a day as one of their fundraising activities. They raised over £1,000 for charity – double their target – and have donated half of their fund to The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.

Jack and Jill pre-school at Littlehaven Infants School, Horsham, held a street party to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, with the children dressing up as kings, queens, princes and princesses.

There was a BBQ and a cake stall, and some people brought their own picnics and champagne to toast the happy couple. Children made crowns and wore jelly-sweet 'engagement' rings.

All the money raised, £109.88, was sent to the Royal Marsden.

Children and staff arrived at Downsend School Epsom Lodge dressed in an array of crazy outfits, including Captain Chemo t-shirts, and sporting brightly coloured hair, nails and faces for their annual ‘Captain Chemo’s Crazy Day’. Throughout the day each class, including the youngest nursery children, took part in either a sponsored walk around Alexandra Park or around the school grounds.

This year, Captain Chemo t-shirt sales raised £300 for the Royal Marsden.

Students have raised over £3,500 for The Royal Marsden. Megan White, a student there, was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma just before Christmas and her sister Charlotte went straight into action to raise money for the hospital.
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W4CR dropped into the new Centre for Children and Young People to hand over a cheque for £9,000. The charity promotes cancer awareness among windsurfers and raises money for cancer research, education and support.
Find out more at www.W4CR.org

Led by staff member Andrew Baker, the boys at King’s College Junior School in Wimbledon kindly raised the most amazing sum of £3,634.61 by taking part in a sponsored spelling and tables event. The funds they have worked so hard to raise are in aid of the Centre for Children and Young People.
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On Friday 19 March, Belleville Primary School held ‘Mad Hair Day’. Most of the children came to school with crazy hairstyles and donated £1, raising £848.49 in the process.
Read more at www.belleville-school.org.uk