Gamechangers: Leanne Fisher
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
After the death of her son, aged just 23 months, Leanne Fisher and her husband co-founded Fletcher's Fund - a small charity with the aim of providing fun things to children going through cancer treatment.
Leanne talks to Lauren, Deborah and Steve about her story, why she set up the charity and what they aim do to help children facing cancer.
She also highlights the challenges facing small charities in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
You can get in touch by using the #YouMeBigC across all forms of social media.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts |
| 0:17.8 | How is Covid impacted on your fundraising and also on what you're able to do? |
| 0:23.0 | Income wise, it's just wiped out totally from March. |
| 0:27.9 | Who knows when we're going to be able to do fundraising again? |
| 0:31.1 | We've done a bit of virtual fundraising which was quite successful but other than that |
| 0:36.2 | I think we're looking at about a 20 grand hit which when our annual income is about 25 grand |
| 0:44.6 | is slightly terrifying. Hopefully we'll be okay. I'm sure we will be okay. |
| 0:58.2 | Hello and welcome to you me in the big sea with me Lauren Mann, otherwise known as |
| 1:02.7 | social media as Gov as the scancer. Jeopardy James you might know her as Balbae and Steve Blant. |
| 1:09.4 | You're Balbae tonight. We'll be thanks to you later on don't worry and then Steve Blant, |
| 1:15.3 | he's also known as Balbae Steve Blant. I'm not Balbae. He's not Balbae. If you're new to this |
| 1:22.0 | podcast and then where have you been we have covered loads of topics and spoken to some really |
| 1:26.7 | remarkable guests and all of our pods are available for you to listen at your leisure on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:32.3 | We also want to hear from you and you can get in contact with us to suggest future topics |
| 1:36.4 | or just give us a bit of praise you know who doesn't have a bit of praise but using the hashtag |
| 1:40.2 | you mean in the big sea across all forms of social media. Now today we're getting back to |
| 1:46.0 | themes that we kicked off way back in March. I don't think I can even remember much. |
| 1:50.6 | It feels like time to go. It does feel like a lifetime ago and it was supposed to be this theme |
| 1:56.6 | was supposed to be the thread for the series until COVID that big thing called COVID. Actually I |
| 2:02.6 | heard today and this is a slight side-line. Somebody saying it's the biggest health challenge |
| 2:08.0 | that we've almost ever had in the last hundred years if not more bigger than cancer which is |
| 2:14.2 | really interesting actually. So anywhere we can come back to that but it was supposed to be the |
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