Dr. Bob's Walk along the Fife Coastal Path
from the Maggie’s Centre in Dundee
to the Maggie’s Centre, Edinburgh
visiting the new Maggie’s Centre in Kirkcaldy
Saturday 4th to Sunday 12th August 2007

See Dr Bob being interviewed by STV North Tonight
Video Report by Rachel Stewart   © North Tonight

The new Maggie’s Centre, which opened in 2006 in Kirkcaldy, provides cancer patients in Fife with the support already warmly appreciated by patients in Edinburgh, Dundee, Inverness and Glasgow. Situated adjacent to the Victoria Hospital, it is convenient for the many cancer patients now receiving their cancer treatments in Fife.

The provision of services from this new Centre costs £350,000 per year, all of which has to be found from donations from the public. As part of the effort to raise money towards this total, Bob Grant, a GP in Kirkcaldy is planning to walk, in August 2007, from Dundee to Edinburgh, using the Fife Coastal Path.

In 1961 Bob was treated for cancer in his leg. Subsequently in 2002 that limb had to be amputated. He will walk the 108 miles from Dundee to Edinburgh on crutches.

The walk will start at the Maggie’s centre at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee and will end at the original Maggie’s Centre in the grounds of Edinburgh’s Western General Hospital. On the way the spectacular new Maggie’s Centre in Kirkcaldy will be visited.

To involve as many people as possible in support of this venture, approaches are being made to organisations throughout Fife, Dundee and Edinburgh. It is hoped that members of some of these organisations may wish to join the walk for part of the way and bring sponsorship with them. Approaches are also to be made to companies based in Fife to request their practical and financial support.

Should you, your organisation or company wish to support this fundraising effort in any way
please contact Dr Bob on Tel: 01592 610396 or by email at info@bobswalk.co.uk
Donations can be made on line using www.justgiving.com/bobswalk
or by sponsor sheets available from Dr Bob

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