THE creative director of a North Yorkshire design consultancy – who has seen three of his nearest and dearest die of cancer – is turning his grief into a festive fundraiser.
Neil Fitzpatrick, of Fitzpatrick Design, Scarborough, produced a CD of his song Apart earlier this year to raise money for Cancer Research UK.
Staff at the consultancy have built a Christmas-giving tree out of thousands of the CDs to help them reach their target of £25,000, and are donating the money they would normally spend on Christmas cards for clients and friends to the charity.
Neil lost his father, mother-in-law and a close friend to cancer.
He said; “It’s been a very difficult few years and I’m determined to get to my target of £25,000 to help fund research into this awful disease, so that one day, maybe others will be spared the devastation it causes.”
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