Foreign Change for Cancer Charity Plea

Shepway residents are being urged to support the Marie Curie Cancer Care Trust this summer, by donating spare change from your last foreign holiday and all your old coins by popping into the Folkestone, Cheriton, Hythe or New Romney branches Lloyds TSB from 19 September.

Coin collection boxes will be available in the branches and all foreign and old coins will be converted to pounds and donated to Marie Curie Cancer Care, Lloyds TSB's charity of the year. Just £15 pays for one hour's care in a cancer patient's home so every spare coin lurking in your pocket, purse and behind your sofa counts.

Marie Curie Cancer Care was chosen by Lloyds TSB employees as their charity of the year. All the funds will contribute to Lloyds TSB's target of £1m to raise money to support 70 local Marie Curie Nurses who provide high quality nursing totally free to cancer patients and their families.

Around 40% of people will develop cancer at some time in their life and each year cancer claims the lives of 150,000 people in the UK. Research shows that 64% of us would like to be cared for at home if we were terminally ill, but only 25% of terminally ill cancer patients currently achieve this. Marie Curie Nurses care for around 15,000 patients per year.