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Corby Schools
invited to add Race
for Life to the timetable.

SCHOOLS in Corby are being urged to join the fight against cancer
by adding Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life Schools to the timetable.
SCHOOLS in Corby are being urged to join the fight against cancer by adding Cancer Research

The charity is inviting primary and secondary schools across the town to hold their own Race
UK’s Race for Life Schools to the timetable.
Cancer Research UK is calling on schools across the region to sign up now at raceforlife.org/schools.
for Life events and help fund vital life-saving research.
Race for Life Schools is completely free to enter and participating schools can choose a day that fits

with the term calendar, and a distance which suits the age and abilities of all pupils.
Every school that signs up will receive a free resource kit specially created by the charity. The kit includes
everything schools need to plan their own Race for Life Schools event such as posters, top fundraising tips,

Participating schools are encouraged to fundraise and money raised will help Cancer Research UK scientists
assembly plans and a special medal for every pupil that takes part.
find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease, helping to save more lives.
Race for Life’s Corby Event Manager, Kimberley Degville, said: “Organising a Race for Life
Schools event is a fantastic way for schools to have fun, while raising money for a good cause.
“Sadly, most of us know someone whose life has been touched by cancer. That’s why we’re
calling on parents, pupils and staff in Corby to unite and help make a real difference in the
“By taking part in Race for Life Schools they could help to turn discoveries made in the lab into new,

fight against the disease.
better treatments for patients in the town and throughout the UK.”
Cancer Research UK’s Race for Life, in partnership with Tesco, is an inspiring
series of events which raises millions of pounds every year to help defeat cancer

One in two people in the UK will be diagnosed with cancer at some stage in their
by funding life-saving research.
lives, but the good news is more people are surviving the disease now than ever
before. Survival rates have doubled since the early 1970s and Cancer Research UK’s

work has been at the heart of that progress.
For more information visit raceforlife.org/schools.

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