Sun protecting ALL at The Open 01 July 2024  |   Michelle Baker The Melanoma Fund is again working with organisers of The Open to ensure spectators have sun protection advice and access to sunscreen, helping avoid the risk of sunburn. This year the charity is going one step further and has partnered with BIGGA to ensure their bunker support team is equipped with SPF50 tube of Stokoderm sunscreen. Keeping the fairways at The Open manicured to perfection involves time, effort, and high levels of UV exposure. This collaboration sends a powerful message to golf clubs on the im ..read more

Rosie’s incredible UV colour changing bead bracelets! 15.06.23 |   Michelle Baker   Rosie Sullivan, the young lady behind ‘Rosie’s incredible UV changing bead bracelets’ has supported the Melanoma Fund since the tender age of four, when she joined her two sisters and mum Julie, at our skin check clinics in garden centres. Following this fun introduction to volunteering, Rosie appeared in one of the charity’s awareness videos to promote sun protection to other children, via the Outdoor Kids Sun Safety Code, which saw her drama skills come to life, in front of the camera, s ..read more

The ingredients of successful charity golf day! 23 September 2022 |   Michelle Baker A charity golf day is all about raising donations for a good cause, however when it comes to a Slip! Slap! Swing! in September golf day, equally important to the Melanoma Fund is achieving our charitable objectives, bringing people together, and ensuring they have lots of fun. Our second big golf day didn’t disappoint! The event was organised at Faversham Golf Club, teaming up with the captain, Phil Dott who selected the Melanoma Fund as his 2022 charity. Nestled into the rolling unspoiled Kent ..read more

Cloudy with a chance of sunshine! 01 08.22  |   Michelle Baker Brits like to talk about the weather, be it too hot, too wet, or cold, and with our changeable temperatures we are never lost for words!  We are using this ‘Britism’, to ignite a sun awareness campaign to inspire children to not only wear sun protection but educate them on why it is important, to help them avoid skin cancer. This summer, Essex ActiVate, an Essex-based Food & Activity Programme contacted all their activity providers to offer free SPF30 sunscreen dispensers, complete with boards, to help ..read more

The reason I quit sunbathing 21.07.22 |   Bethany Robbins Bethany is outdoor and sporty, and like many young women, loved getting a tan. Here she explains how a placement at the Melanoma Fund, completely changed her perception of sun protection, and now wants others now to understand why, and more about the risks of skin cancer. “I was a complete sun worshipper, taking every opportunity to spend time basking under the UV rays, with either minimal or sometimes no sunscreen on.  If I got a sunburn I regarded it as an inconvenience and a precursor to my ‘healthy looking’ tan ..read more

The Melanoma Fund welcomes new trustee 01 Jan 2021  |   Michelle Baker The Melanoma Fund is one of only a handful of charities in the UK driving awareness around melanoma and other forms of skin cancer, which it achieves via four national campaigns, all widely supported within each sector. The charity has been building steadily, fine-tuning its approach, recently changing its name from the Myfanwy Townsend Melanoma Research Fund, and streamlining its objectives to focus specifically on sport and outdoor recreation. The charity is now set to expand to a whole new level, wit ..read more

National School Sport Week – WIN a SUNBURN awareness kit 01 Jan 2021  |   Michelle Baker The Outdoor Kids Sun Safety Code was created in 2014 by the Melanoma Fund to improve the provision of sun protection to KS2 children.  Partnered by 4 major sports organisations, including the Youth Sport Trust it is supported by hundred’s of national governing bodies to help blow the whistle on sunburn! We are working with National School Sport Week 2022 this summer to ensure that everyone arrives at the events sun prepared, and is also offering the opportunity for all attending s ..read more

Beware a spring sunburn! 01 Jan 2021  |   Michelle Baker When it comes to avoiding the possibility of skin cancer, avoiding sunburn is key, and this is especially true in early spring, where the cooler temperatures can deceive us on the power of UV rays. If your children love outdoor sport, you will know the joys of getting on a sunny spring morning to watch them train, or compete in all forms of sport, from tennis, rugby, football or maybe racing around a track! After being wrapped up for months in all forms of insulation, they will probably want take off the layers, reli ..read more

Faversham Golf Club set to tackle skin cancer in golf 01 Jan 2021  |   Michelle Baker The new captains of Faversham Golf Club have announced they will work together this season to support the Melanoma Fund, the charity behind the Slip! Slap! Swing! sun protection campaign for golf as their club charity for 2022-23. Captains Phillip Dott and Sheila Fullager, made the announcement at the recent Annual General Meeting at the club in January, attended by over 100 members, as well as CEO of the Melanoma Fund, Michelle Baker. The charity raises awareness of melanoma and other fo ..read more

Alex’s brilliant Devon fundraiser A Harvard Business School professor looked at the correlation between prosocial giving and happiness and found that one increases the other; a virtuous circle of giving and happiness. It is then little wonder that Alex Elson and her friends entered this week with big grins, following the amazing success of a fundraiser in memory of a good friend who passed away in November from melanoma, raising over £4,000 for the Melanoma Fund. Alex, from North Devon has over the years lost several friends to this most dreaded form of skin cancer. After losing Lyn Vi ..read more