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[email protected] Web: www.mariekeating.ie ANNUAL REPORT 2012 2 MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION 2012 ANNUAL REPORT MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION 3 Contents A word from Ronan Keating 5 A word from our Chairman 7 Objectives for 2012 10 Health Education & Awareness Programmes 11 Nursing Services Department Review 2012 12 Health Education & Awareness Campaigns 17 Fundraising 30 Report & Financial Statements for 2012 38 Accounts 47 2012 ANNUAL REPORT 4 MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION 2012 ANNUAL REPORT MARIE KEATING FOUNDATION 5 A word from Ronan Keating Looking back over the years since we set up the Marie of understanding cancer. This programme was Keating Foundation in our mothers name, we were launched by the minister for education and rolled just a normal family who wanted to do something out in 2007 I would like to thank Marks & Spencer to help prevent others going through what we went for their support in helping to extend this through and wow! I have to take my hat off to all at the programme as they have supported many of our foundation for the massive amount of effort and heart programmes over the past 11 years without their that they put in everyday to help us fulfil our dream help we simply couldn’t survive. of making cancer less frightening by enlightening and working towards a world free from the fear of cancer. We are now looking to the future and continuing Over the past 11 years the foundation has grown our work in the area of cancer awareness, from strength to strength and we have broadened information and education through our mobile our scope on the cancers that we provide information units, our schools programme, our workplace talks on.