For many of us, the last year (and more!) have been incredibly challenging. Here at From Me to You, that's so exception, but there have been some incredible silver linings - mostly in the form of the amazing support we have received to make sure, lockdown or no lockdown, we can keep delivering beautiful cards and letters to those living with cancer. So, what are the highlights that we want to shout from the rooftops, along with a big THANK YOU? In 2021: 8,362 letters were received and sent. When we first began our Donate A Letter programme in 2017, we received 550, and in 2020 we got 7,334 so ..read more

We want to start 2022 with reasons to celebrate what has come before and what is on the horizon - there is so much to look forward to at From Me to You. Let's start with a big thank you... THANK YOU! to all of you who have supported us in the run up to Christmas and throughout 2021. Reasons to jump for joy As you can see, our co-founder Alison has taken the jumping for joy literally - but who could blame her after she finished her year long running challenge! A virtual Lands End to John O'Groats route that took in 874 miles, running in every weather possible, and a lot of sweet-talking to her ..read more

We want to start 2022 with reasons to celebrate what has come before and what is on the horizon - there is so much to look forward to at From Me to You. Let's start with a big thank you... THANK YOU! to all of you who have supported us in the run up to Christmas and throughout 2021. Reasons to jump for joy As you can see, our co-founder Alison has taken the jumping for joy literally - but who could blame her after she finished her year long running challenge! A virtual Lands End to John O'Groats route that took in 874 miles, running in every weather possible, and a lot of sweet-talking to her ..read more

You have your blank piece of paper, an open card, a cheeky postcard waiting to be written. Your pen is hovering over the white space, ink just waiting to flow... Then, a little thought pops up. What should I write? When we talk to both our writers and recipients, there is a wonderful overlap between the concern of writing the "right" thing, and the gratitude of receiving just the "right" words at the "right" time. But this rightness is orchestrated. It's the synchronicity of the empathy we can give and how it feels to receive it. In the run up to Christmas, we had hundreds of letters and cards ..read more

We couldn't do any of our work without our incredible community - that includes you! Whether you've received a letter, written many or just helped spread the word, you've made 2021 that bit brighter. Stamps and cards galore! Thank you so much to all of you who have either donated directly via Just Giving or have created wonderful fundraising ideas of your own to help us get as many cards as possible out to our letter recipients. This year we've been able to send over 8000 letters, have met 835 new writers, and delivered to 18 hospitals and cancer centres as well as to hundreds of individuals d ..read more

ast month we celebrated the success of the Big Letter Write where you sent us 843 amazing letters to share with those living with cancer. It was such a lift and a big boost for our recipients before we began our campaign for Christmas. There were so many great ideas and wonderful words shared with us, so we wanted to give you a taster (or a reminder) to help you with the next steps on your letter writing journey. The biggest letter we received Let's start off with a bit of a giggle. The brilliant Dinah Johnson from The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society wrote this HUGE letter as her donat ..read more

In our latest newsletter we focused on all the wonderful things our community of writers and letter recipients have been up to. We love finding out more about the challenges that you take on - especially when they’re in the name of the work we do at FMTY - that we can never thank you enough for! Warming up those writing muscles Often we talk about physical challenges that people take on for us (we’ll get to that in a moment) but we also have some incredible writers who have set their own letter-based goals this year to ensure there are more cancer patients reached out to than ever before. Gra ..read more

As we move on from our Big Letter Write (where we received an amazing 843 letters in October alone!), November and December will see an incredible number of you supporting those dealing with cancer this Christmas. Every year we focus our ,Christmas fundraising appeal on ensuring that your donated letters and cards get to where they are most needed. Last year we sent over 1,600 pieces of post to hospitals and patients across the country and this year we’d love to reach even more. There are so many ways to help us, and you’ve already begun! Donate a Christmas letter or two Need some inspiration ..read more

In a very timely fashion, we’re incredibly excited to announce two new members to the Board of Trustees at From Me to You as ,Trustee Week opens! Joining Brian Greenley (Chair/Co-Founder), Alison Hitchcock (Co-founder), Pamela Thomson-Hall, and Frankie Smith, Anne and Liz will make incredible additions to the Board and the future of our charity. Anne James Anne previously held the position of Chair of the Board of Trustees for ,Restore, the mental health charity based in Oxfordshire. With over ten years on the Board of Trustees at Restore, one of the UKs longest-established and highly regarded ..read more

From Me to You has had a busy Summer and Autumn, as you’ll see below, but with so many recent reports of the continued delays of treatments for those living with cancer and few visitors or companions allowed in hospitals, letters continue to be a vital source of support. So, what have we been up to? Our worldwide journey continues... Over the summer the Donate A Letter programme received 2,018 letters and signed up 273 new letter writers from across the globe; countries include USA, Australia, Denmark, Jersey, New Zealand and the Philippines, as well as so much support from writers in the UK ..read more