Following a successful year where Castleford Male Voice Choir (CMVC) raised over £4,600.00 for Prostate Cancer UK. CMVC have nominated two new Charities for 2025.

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CMVC are working with the family of Alfie Akers to raise funds for Brain Tumour Research and Candlelighters. When Alfie was three years old he was diagnosed with medullablastoma, a child brain tumour. During 2024 he had three brain surgeries, six weeks of radiotherapy, where he was put to sleep each day and then eight months of grueling chemotherapy to top it all off. He has done all of this smiling and with resilience his parents can’t even begin to explain. 

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Alfie is currently cancer free as far as we are aware, and will need scans for the next five years to check that remains the same. Devastatingly, if his cancer does return, there is nothing that current medicine can do for him or any other child in his situation.

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Only 1% of national funding is invested into brain tumour research, which can go some way to explaining why there have been little development in medicine in the field for the last twenty years. 

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Alfie’s parents want to try and change that narrative. They pray every day that he will never need to use this medicine again, but are thinking of all the other children and their families who are diagnosed. 

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It costs just over £2000 for a day of research and with CMVC’s help Alfie’s family hope to continue raising as much money, not only for this life saving research, but also for the charity that provided them with the emotional support they needed on their journey.